The authors discuss whether a small country with shrinking population should apply public enterprises to improve its economic situation for purposes of external economic relations policy. The study refers to Estonia as an example. Estonia has developed public enterprises of the central state and...

Estonian municipalities should perform a broad range of functions, while their fiscal resources are often limited and large disparities in fiscal capacity prevail among them. Moreover, the power to regulate fiscal affairs is mostly in the hands of the central government. We discuss how a strict...

Collection of several German essays on Functional Overlapping Competing Jurisdictions (FOCJ). Contents: - Appropriate tasks and legal forms - Financing a FOCJ for business development - Using FOCJ to stimulate growth and cluster formation - Technological progress as a decision criterion for...