Spillovers from national industrial policies can cause helpful or harmful competition among policy makers and helpful or harmful interactions among the targeted industries. As a result, it is not in general possible to say whether industrial policy coordination is good or bad. However, reaching...

This study discusses European Commission's recent proposal to combat VAT fraud by taxing intra-Community supplies at a common rate of 15%, accompanied by the internal correction of input-tax gap between an importer and his own national tax authority, which is caused by the national VAT rate...

This paper deals with the interactions between outward investments of western multinationals and export performance of their affiliates in transition countries. It argues that multinationals make an important contribution to increasing, diversifying and up-grading trade, because they are able to...

Der Bundesminister für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit (BMU) hat im November 1991 einen ersten Entwurf für eine Verordnung zur Förderung von Getränkemehrwegsystemen vorgelegt; offen ist, ob dieser Entwurf, wie ursprünglich vorgesehen, im Jahre 1997 in Kraft gesetzt wird. Dieser...