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The current British Government's "Big Society" plan is based on the idea that granting more freedom to local communities and volunteers will compensate for a withdrawal of public agencies and spending. This idea is grounded on a widely held belief about the relationship between government and volunteering: a high degree of government intervention will cause a crowding...

In this paper we discuss the regulatory risk associated with tendering regional public transport lines from the regulator's and the operators' perspective.

This paper investigates the labor market impact of four often proposed
policy measures for sustainable pensions: strengthening the tax benefit link, moving from wage to price indexation of benefits, lengthening calculation periods, and introducing more actuarial fairness in pension assessment. We consider the impact on three margins of aggregate labor supply, retirement...

This paper compares domestically and foreign-owned plants with respect to their debt-to-assets ratio and analyzes to which extent the difference is systematically affected by corporate taxation. To derive hypotheses about influence of corporate taxation on a firm's debt financing we adapt a standard model of taxation and financing decisions of firms for the case of international...

Venture capital has become an important source of financing young entrepreneurial firms. Venture capital backed firms are often perceived as more innovative and as creating more value than others. Perhaps for this reason, policy makers are keen to create a good institutional framework to facilitate the development of an active venture capital industry. We explore the role of tax...

In comparing the impact of corporate taxation and social insurance on foreign direct investment (FDI) and unemployment, the paper derives four main results: (i) the optimal size of the welfare state depends on the degree of risk-aversion, the unemployment rate and the excess burden of labor taxes. Unemployment partly reflects the country's exposure to globalization; (ii)...

Die demografische Alterung wird in der langen Frist erhebliche Anpassungen in der Finanzierung der Altersvorsorge erfordern. Die Art und Weise, wie die Finanzierungslücke geschlossen wird, hat beträchtliche Auswirkungen auf den Arbeitsmarkt. Für die zukünftige Entwicklung des Pro-Kopf-Einkommens ist es entscheidend, dass die Finanzpolitik in einer Weise reagiert, welche die Anreize...