Companies pay taxes on profits and capital. Also, under competitive labour markets for highly skilled employees, companies have to compensate these employees for international differences in labour tax burdens.…
Since the start of EMU monetary policy is centralised for the countries of the Euro area. In contrast to that main responsibility for banking supervision remains with the national authorities. This allocation of…
On behalf of the Ministry for the Environment and Transport of the German State Baden-Württemberg, the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) and the Institute for Applied Ecology (Öko-Institut) have…
For a comprehensive study on behalf of the European Commission, a new methodology for computing effective tax burdens has been implemented and applied. This methodology, developed by Devereux and Griffith…
It was the aim of this project to evaluate the current status of Cental and Eastern European capital markets (particularly in Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia) and to develop proposals for policy actions…
This project investigates the impact of the knowledge economy on employment generation in Europe. It will first construct knowledge indicators for selected European countries, such as ICT (information and…