A reform in the German state of Hesse selectively shifted the responsibility for overseeing and enforcing a balanced budget rule at the municipal level. Oversight was transferred from politically affiliated…
A comprehensive reform process is currently underway in international tax policy – ranging from the global minimum tax to adjustments at the municipal level. How do these new rules interact, and what are their…
In recent years, a growing number of countries have enacted tax rules that require multinational enterprises (MNEs) to document their intra-firm trade prices and show that they are set as in third-party trade.…
We examine the changing attention that ECB Governing Council members pay to different policy objectives by analysing more than 4,600 speeches given between the establishment of the ECB and the summer of 2024.…
Cantonal tax rates in the Swiss canton of Bern were significantly reduced in 2011/2012, particularly for low and middle incomes. However, many municipalities responded by substantially increasing their own tax…
Germany and other EU countries are currently running up record levels of debt – but how much of this will actually benefit future generations? This question is addressed by the new ‘Future Ratio’ developed by…
