Ensuring tax and transfer systems bring sufficient revenue to reach macroeconomic fiscal targets, address societal goals in re-distribution and social welfare, recognise the influence taxation has on businesses’ competitiveness and adequately address environmental externalities is a tough...

"Das Freiheitsbuch" nennt Ederer sein Plädoyer für mehr Eigenverantwortung und weniger Staat. Sowohl in den Themen- wie in der Wortwahl die Fortsetzung von "Das Erbe der Egoisten" (BA 7/95, als Taschenbuch BA 6/97). Wieder prangert er für seine Reportagen ausgezeichnete Journalist die...

The East German labor market has hardly made any progress since German reunification, despite massive migration flows and support from the West. We argue that East Germany is in trouble precisely because of the support it has received. This paper explores the phenomenon of the caring hand that...

As the recent financial crisis started unfolding, governments intervened through substantive subsidies and other benefits towards financial institutions to avoid their collapse. In addition, various stimulus packages were endorsed to rescue various sectors of the economy, including the financial...