The traditional way of comparing fiscal attractiveness of regions competing with each other internationally is to concentrate on the tax burdens borne by mobile capital and mobile companies. Lately this approach…
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…
How do product demand and market shares react if product prices are changed? This traditional question of Industrial Organization has experienced a rebirth in recent years. Starting from the hedonic price…
This project analyzes if and to what extent employee training efforts, the lack of qualified personnel, firm size and employees skill structure influence firms decision to outsource information technology…