European Union (EU) member States have diverse qualifications and education systems, which are a primary competence of member States. Understanding those systems and the factors that contribute to the effective recognition of qualifications of migrants is an important first step to identifying...

Reducing the deterrent effects from EU and Member State laws in three key cross-sector policy areas - competition policy, business taxes and VAT, and digital policies - could significantly enhance the business environment within the Single Market and boost the EU's attractiveness to both...

Die offene Gesellschaft ist ein wesentlicher Kulminationspunkt der Aufklärung und basiert auf der Vorstellung, dass sozialer Fortschritt durch eine gewaltfreie, wissenschaftsgeleitete und demokratische Auseinandersetzung, über gesellschaftliche Konfliktmomente, gefördert werden kann. Während...

Insgesamt zeichnet die Expertenumfrage ein ernüchterndes Bild des Standorts Deutschland. Knapp die Hälfte der deutschen Expertinnen und Experten prognostiziert, dass der Wirtschaftsstandort Deutschland in den nächsten zehn Jahren an Attraktivität verlieren wird. Vor dem Hintergrund der...

Urban competitiveness is commonly attributed to necessitating particular types of socio‐spatial frameworks such as clustering on the basis of models of Marshall-Arrow-Romer (MAR), Porter, or Jacobs, since proximity is known as a key perquisite for knowledge spillover, innovation, and hence...

Germany, the European Union member state with the largest fiscal space and its leading manufacturer of industrial goods, is pursuing an ambitious hydrogen strategy aiming at establishing itself as a major technology provider and importer of green hydrogen. The success of its hydrogen strategy...

Global betrachtet erfährt der IRA laut den befragten Expertinnen und Experten keine große Aufmerksamkeit. Nur in europäischen Ländern, insbesondere in Westeuropa, spielt das Thema eine wichtige Rolle. Dort ist auch die Sorge vor negativen Auswirkungen auf die heimische Wirtschaft infolge des...

FDI and territorial marketing are fields of interest and research by many scientists and managers. However, this is still a new field of science in Vietnam, both academically and practically. The awareness of building a local image to investors, especially foreign investors, is still limited....

Die hohen Inflationsraten als Konsequenz der Energiepreiskrise, die mit dem russischenAngriffskrieg auf die Ukraine begonnen hat, waren nicht nur für private Verbraucher, sondernauch für Unternehmen deutlich spürbar. Für das Hochkostenland Deutschland sind weitereKostensteigerungen im...

The EU must embrace international cooperation and collaboration in technology-driven industries to ensure competitiveness and global relevance, while also considering the drawbacks of isolationist policies. The EU's commitment to open markets and global cooperation has historically been its...

Die internationale Arbeitsteilung entlang der Wertschöpfungskette ist das A und O des deutschen Geschäftsmodells. Damit verbunden sind erhebliche Effizienzgewinne, die nicht nur mit einer Kostenersparnis und höherer preislicher Wettbewerbsfähigkeit einhergehen, sondern auch den Zugang zu...

Der Jahresmonitor 2023 zeigt, dass Familienunternehmen aufgrund steigender Regulierung und hoher Bürokratielasten die Attraktivität Deutschlands als Investitionsstandort weiterhin als abnehmend bewerten und zunehmend in Auslandsmärkte wie die USA und Polen investieren. Gleichzeitig verdoppelt...

The aim of this study is to test the multidimensional construct of the Entrepreneurial University (EU), and therefore to confirm whether EU factors make a positive contribution to regional competitiveness. Data were collected from ten Portuguese Public Universities (PPUs) through a...

The European Commission published its communication for the long-term competitiveness of the EU. Trade and Open Strategic Autonomy were among the selected policy areas that will drive EU competitiveness in the future and trade with the rest of the world as a share of EU Gross Domestic Product...

An international tax haven is usually a low-tax jurisdiction that seeks to attract investment by foreign investors. But, there are many state and local jurisdictions within federal systems that set zero tax rates on personal or corporate income, consumption, property, and wealth in an effort to...

We use a quantitative economic geography model to explore subsidy competition among U.S. states. We ask what motivates state governments to subsidize firm relocations and quantify how strong their incentives are. We also characterize fully non-cooperative and cooperative subsidy choices and...

This paper investigates the influence of environmental regulations on outward foreign direct investment (OFDI). We first develop a simple model to show that an increase in emission tax in the domestic market induces firm-level foreign direct investment (FDI) activities. We next take advantage of...

Space: the final frontier. This paper seeks to understand the spatial dimension of tax competition. We provide two novel contributions to the literature on tax competition. First, we present a spatial model of tax competition, which is an adoption of the Hotelling model of imperfect competition...

This paper discusses how an industrialized country could defend the wages and social benefits of its unskilled workers against wage competition from immigrants. It shows that fixing social standards harms the workers and that fixing social replacement incomes implies migration into unemployment....

In the current situation, shaped by the relocation of multinational companies following the disruption of global value chains, the efforts for attracting foreign direct investments (FDI) should be better focused on enhancing the flows that create value in the economy, stimulate the local...

The paper evaluates the relationship between the indicators of competitiveness of national economies (real unit labour costs and Global Competitiveness Index) and the flow of FDI in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) over the last two decades. Our results show that from 2000 to 2020, CEE economies...

In the last decades many scholars have studied urban competition and entrepreneurial urban policies. Coming from the evolving field of competition research, we are interested in how urban competition is constructed and, for this purpose, examine the competition imaginary of Vienna, a city known...