Die globale Finanz- und Schuldenkrise hat zu hohen fiskalischen Kosten und erheblichen volkswirtschaftlichen Verwerfungen in Europa geführt. Zu instabil und komplex ist das international verwobene Finanzsystem, zu stark der finanzielle Nexus zwischen Staaten und Banken. Vor diesem Hintergrund...

The creation of a banking union is widely seen as a key element of institutional reforms towards more financial and economic stability in Europe. Its objective is to improve the effectiveness of banking regulation and supervision and to sever the link between the finances of national governments...

The Great Recession and the resulting European debt crisis revived a debate about deeper fiscal integration in the Eurozone. We discuss different alternatives how an unemployment insurance system for the euro area could be designed and run counterfactual simulations based on micro data to...

Forward-looking measures like the well-known effective marginal tax rate developed by King and Fullerton (1984) rely strongly on standardized assumptions on the effective use of depreciation deductions. This paper derives a method of assessing these assumptions empirically and of quantifying the...

This paper synthesizes and extends the literature on the taxation of foreign source income in a framework that covers both greenfield and acquisition investment, and a general constraint linking investment at home and abroad for the multinational by introducing a cost of adjustment for the...

In Deutschland gibt es ein umfassendes Sozialsystem, das jedem Bürger einen Mindestlebensstandard sichert. Die Sozialleistungen umfassen 30 Prozent des Bruttoinlandsproduktes. Ein angemessenes Niveau der Sozialleistungen lässt sich aber nur sicherstellen, wenn sowohl das Marktsystem, in dem...