This paper assesses the effects that an introduction of the French family splitting mechanism would have on German families' labour supply and intra-household consumption behaviour. We use simulated real world…
We exploit the cross–country and time variation in the demographics and education structure of 11 European countries to study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the data of all…
This publication presents the effective tax burden of companies and on highly skilled man power of additional regions in Europe and complements the IBC Taxation Index 2003.
Using the model recently developed by Jaumandreu (2003) this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in Germany. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level…
This paper presents an empirical analysis of the determinants of patent litigation in Germany, based on information from suits filed during the period from 1993 to 1995 at two of the three most important…
The European Commission has recently stepped up its promotion of the ‘Integrated Product Policy’. The objective of the IPP is to support the realisation of environmental product innovations and thus to achieve…
The ECB reform is designed to meet the challenges of an enlarged monetary union in the ECB Council. The reform is assessed by analysing alternatives for the classification of governors into groups of the…
