Germany implements plans to curb soaring rent prices: The rents for apartments let to new tenants must not exceed the standard rent by more than ten per cent. Rent indices thus become…
Municipal public spending often increases prior to elections. This recurring phenomenon is the result of "political budget cycles", that is, strategic manipulation of expenditures or…
The dispute over a solution to the Greek sovereign debt crisis has revealed the major shortcoming of eurozone crisis management: there is no effective strategy to enforce negotiated…
For a number of years, the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) has regularly calculated the inheritance tax burden applicable when a large mid-tier sample company, in the…
