The elasticity of taxable income (ETI) has been a central concept in the empirical public finance literature for the last 20 years. Precise information on the ETI is potentially very relevant for the design of tax policy as it is, under certain circumstances, a 'sufficient statistic' for...

The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) and the University of Mannheim invite the submission of theoretical as well as empirical work. This year's conference particularly welcomes theoretical and empirical papers with a focus on imbalances on capital and goods markets, labour markets,...

Papers addressing the following questions are particularly welcome: - How should governments tax multinational firms? - How should tax policy respond to income shifting? - How do corporate taxes impact investment and financing decisions of multinational firms? - What are the economic...

Submissions are invited for the sixth annual conference on the political economy of international organizations, to be held at the Universities of Mannheim and Heidelberg, Germany, on February 7-9, 2013. The conference brings together economists and political scientists to address...

The measurement of IT-based services productivity is at the heart of the ProdIT research project, which is patronized by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The aim of this workshop is to share know-how and experiences on the measurement of service productivity....

This Summer School is unique in Europe with its focus on Survey Methodology and data collection. It is the right place to go for PhD students and junior researchers planning to run their own survey, but also those who analyse secondary data and want to know more about how the data came about and...

The conference programme will include keynote addresses as well as presentations of contributed papers. The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) and the University of Mannheim invite the submission of theoretical as well as empirical work. We particularly encourage the submission of...

The major objective of MaCCI is to stimulate and disseminate research in the area of competition, regulation, and innovation policy. The inaugural conference aims to provide a platform for research and discussion between academic researchers and professionals in state authorities, legal counsel...

Topics: - Public and private enforcement – Comparative strengths and weaknesses - Public enforcement – Empirical data and legal challenges of calculating fines - Private enforcement – Experiences in the Member States, open issues, the economic function of private damage claims -...