Common Corporate Tax Base in the EU

Christoph Spengel, Andreas Oestreicher

• Paperback | Engels | Zew Economic Studies | nr. 43
• The European Commission envisages putting forward a proposal for a tax reform that would allow improving the efficiency and simplicity of the corporat... Lees meer

Competition Policy Analysis

Kai Hüschelrath

• Paperback | Engels | Zew Economic Studies | nr. 41
• Competition policy is an integral and prominent part of economic policy-making in the European Union. The EU Treaty prescribes its member states to co... Lees meer

Econometric Evaluation of Labour Market Policies

• Paperback | Engels | Zew Economic Studies | nr. 13
• Empirical measurement of impacts of active labour market programmes has started to become a central task of economic researchers. New improved econome... Lees meer

Agglomeration, Growth, and Adjustment

Thiess Büttner

• Paperback | Engels | Zew Economic Studies | nr. 2
• It is dealt with disparities in employment growth, unemployment, and wages between regional labor markets in Germany. First, endogenous formation and ... Lees meer

What Hampers Part-Time Work?

Elke Wolf

• Paperback | Engels | Zew Economic Studies | nr. 18
• The more I live the more I learn. The more I learn the more I realize the less I know (Alan and Manly Bergman) This book is a slightly revised version... Lees meer

The Internationalisation of British Start-Up Companies in High-Technology Industries

Oliver Bürgel

• Paperback | Engels | Zew Economic Studies | nr. 9
• There are 17 million small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the European Union which play an important role in economic life. Within this subset... Lees meer

The Effective Tax Burden of Companies in European Regions

Lothar Lammersen, Robert Schwager

• Paperback | Engels | Zew Economic Studies | nr. 28
• This book is the resuh of a research project commissioned by the IBC BAK In- ternational Benchmark Club(R), an initiative by BAK Basel Economics, and ... Lees meer

Macro Attractiveness and Micro Decisions in the Mutual Fund Industry

Gunnar Lang

• Paperback | Engels | Zew Economic Studies | nr. 47
• This volume addresses the attractiveness of financial centers with a primary focus on the mutual fund industry. It uses different empirical analysis a... Lees meer

Reform Options for the EU Own Resources System

Friedrich Heinemann, Philipp Mohl, Steffen Osterloh

• Paperback | Engels | Zew Economic Studies | nr. 40
• The general review of the European Union's budget scheduled for the years 2008 and 2009 offers a unique opportunity for reflections. Explicitly this r... Lees meer

Germany's 2005 Welfare Reform

Thomas Walter

• Paperback | Engels | Zew Economic Studies | nr. 46
• In January 2005, the German government enacted a substantial reform of the welfare system, the so-called "Hartz IV reform". This book evaluates key ch... Lees meer

Foreign Exchange Intervention as a Monetary Policy Instrument

Felix Hüfner

• Paperback | Engels | Zew Economic Studies | nr. 23
• Foreign exchange intervention is frequently being used by central banks in countries which have a floating exchange rate. Most theoretical monetary po... Lees meer

The Effective Tax Burden on Highly Qualified Employees

Christina Elschner, Robert Schwager

• Paperback | Engels | Zew Economic Studies | nr. 29
• Taxes on the highly skilled are an important cost factor for companies competing internationally for talent. This book provides an international compa... Lees meer

Innovation, Employment, and Firm Performance in the German Service Sector

Ulrich Kaiser

• Paperback | Engels | Zew Economic Studies | nr. 16
• Empirical and theoretical evidence on the German service sector is inversely related to its growing overall importance for the entire economy. This mo... Lees meer

Business Cycle Synchronisation and Economic Integration

• Paperback | Engels | Zew Economic Studies | nr. 45
• This book offers the reader a state-of-the-art overview on theory and empirics of business cycle synchronisation, structural reform and economic integ... Lees meer

Climate Technology Strategies 2

Pantelis Capros, Panagiotis Georgakopoulos, Denise Van Regemorter, Stef Proost, Tobias F N Schmidt, Henrike Koschel, Klaus Conrad, E Lakis Vouyoukas

• Paperback | Engels | Zew Economic Studies | nr. 4
• Climate technology becomes more and more relevant in international environmental policy negotiations. At the Kyoto conference binding emission reducti... Lees meer

Economic Foundation of Asset Price Processes

Erik Paul Lüders

• Paperback | Engels | Zew Economic Studies | nr. 24
• In this book the relation between the characteristics of investors' preferences and expectations and equilibrium asset price processes are analysed. I... Lees meer

Computers and Productivity

Thomas Hempell

• Paperback | Engels | Zew Economic Studies | nr. 33
• Information and communication technologies (ICTs) create potentials for considerable productivity gains and for higher economic growth. However, ICTs ... Lees meer

Evaluating the Employment Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany

Stephan Lothar Thomsen

• Paperback | Engels | Zew Economic Studies | nr. 36
• This book analyses the employment effects of job creation schemes for participating individuals in Germany. Programs provide subsidized jobs that are ... Lees meer

Decentralised Government in an Integrating World

Dan Stegarescu

• Paperback | Engels | Zew Economic Studies | nr. 34
• This book provides an empirical and institutional analysis of ?scal federalism in OECD countries, focusing on the impact of economic and political int... Lees meer

The Internationalisation of Young High-Tech Firms

Oliver Bürgel, Andreas Fier, Georg Licht, Gordon Murray

• Paperback | Engels | Zew Economic Studies | nr. 22
• There is now a certain tradition of Anglo-German comparative research on new technology-based firms (NTBFs). Two of the most influential studies in th... Lees meer

Empirical Modeling of the Economy and the Environment

• Paperback | Engels | Zew Economic Studies | nr. 20
• ZhongXiang Zhang (East-West Center, Honolulu) uses a global model based on marginal abatement cost curves for 12 world regions to estimate the contrib... Lees meer

Corporate Governance in Germany

Jens Köke

• Paperback | Engels | Zew Economic Studies | nr. 17
• Corporate governance is an important issue on the research agenda of financial economists. Using a new and unique data set of German corporations this... Lees meer

Effective Tax Burden in Europe

Otto H Jacobs, Christoph Spengel

• Paperback | Engels | Zew Economic Studies | nr. 15
• Our small book presents areport which has been prepared in the year 2000 for the Taxation and Custorns Union Directorate General of the European Commi... Lees meer

Lead Markets for Environmental Innovations

Klaus Jacob, Marian Beise, Jürgen M Blazejczak, Dietmar Edler, Rüdiger Haum, Martin Jänicke, Thomas Löw, Ulrich Petschow, Klaus Rennings

• Paperback | Engels | Zew Economic Studies | nr. 27
• Why does one country take the lead over others in the development and introduction of environmental innovations? This book analyzes lead markets for i... Lees meer