The paper analyzes the evolution of relative wages using individual wage data, and the contribution of skills to productivity using firm-level information from Hungary, 1986-99. Its main conclusion is that skills obsolescence was, and still is, an important aspect of post-communist transition....

This paper compares two attributes of a deferred tax liability (DTL) that arise from differences in book and tax depreciation methods. The first attribute is the effect of the DTL on the market value of the firm. The second is the length of time between when the asset is placed into service and...

This paper compares two attributes of a deferred tax liability (DTL) that arise from differences in book and tax depreciation methods. The first attribute is the effect of the DTL on the market value of the firm. The second is the length of time between when the asset is placed into service and...

This study compares incentive effects of various tax depreciation methods currently adopted in European transition economies. In these countries straight-line, geometric-degressive and accelerated depreciation measures are quite popular in combination with different corporate tax rates. Their...

The value of corporate equity in Japan is dramatically smaller than that implied by the sum of the reproduction cost of accumulated investment and the market value of land owned by corporations (that is, the Tobin's average 'q' is much smaller than unity). This discrepancy appears to result from...

Im Zuge der wirtschaftlichen Globalisierung und einem damit verbundenen Wettbewerb der Nationalstaaten um mobile Produktionsfaktoren, d.h. insbesondere Kapital, kommt der Wachstumseffizienz der nationalen Ausgestaltung der Unternehmensbesteuerung eine wachsende wirtschaftspolitische Bedeutung...