In fiscal interaction, a policy is evolutionarily stable if, once adopted by all governments, jurisdictions that deviate from it fare worse than those that stick to it. Evolutionary stability is the appropriate solution concept for models of imitative learning (policy mimicking). We show that...

Nachdruck mit einem Vorwort und einer ausführlichen Einleitung von Heinz-J. Bontrup. Heinz-J. Bontrup und der Duncker & Humblot Verlag würdigen mit dem Nachdruck dieses Buches aus dem Jahr 1992 das Lebenswerk des herausragenden deutschen Ökonomen Helmut Arndt zu seinem 110. Geburtstag. In...

In fiscal interaction, a policy is evolutionarily stable if, once adopted by all governments, jurisdictions that deviate from it fare worse than those that stick to it. Evolutionary stability is the appropriate solution concept for models of imitative learning (policy mimicking). We show that...