The paper considers the local provision of public infrastructure in symmetric jurisdictions when population is mobile. It shows that an inflexible deficit limitation may result in too little local public investment if the population is mobile. Conversely, given the existence of migration...

The paper considers governments' public procurement decision as a way of influencing industry structure. In a federation in which capital is mobile and capital taxation is harmonized, a home bias in public procurement can potentially be explained as an effort to increase the capital intensity of...

Das ifo Institut empfiehlt eine Absenkung der deutschen Unternehmensteuersätze, da diese im internationalen Vergleich derzeit eine einsame Spitzenstellung einnehmen. Darüber hinaus wird ein Stufentarif bei der Einkommensteuer vorgeschlagen, um die Grenzbelastung aller Einkommensbezieher...

Foreign direct investment has been disappointingly low in eastern Europe, which has been reluctant to make existing assets available to foreign investors. To mitigate any such resentment, we propose a participation model in which foreign investors compete for joint venture contracts. Host...

Public complaints about the growth, complexity and volatility of tax legislation abound. Against this background, the present article gives an account of the quantitative development of tax legislation in post-war Germany. We find that the legislative output did not increase over the decades. In...

This paper examines 157 German listed corporations that had the option of changing their fiscal year to achieve a possible tax reduction in connection with the major tax reform of 2000-01. The tax reduction from a change was larger, the larger the expected profits. However, with costs of...