We have long known that Germany and Europe will soon be required to spend enormous sums of money - driven by geopolitical, economic and security policy requirements. States must significantly increase their investments and secure their financing. This will not only affect EU Member States'...

We have long known that Germany and Europe will soon be required to spend enormous sums of money – driven by geopolitical, economic and security policy requirements. States must significantly increase their investments and secure their financing. This will not only affect EU Member States'...

Schon lange steht fest, dass auf Deutschland und Europa gewaltige Ausgaben zukommen. Die geopolitischen, ökonomischen und sicherheitspolitischen Anforderungen zwingen hierzu. Staaten müssen ihre Investitionen spürbar erhöhen und deren Finanzierung sichern. Dies wird nicht nur Auswirkungen...

Schon lange steht fest, dass auf Deutschland und Europa gewaltige Ausgaben zukommen. Die geopolitischen, ökonomischen und sicherheitspolitischen Anforderungen zwingen hierzu. Staaten müssen ihre Investitionen spürbar erhöhen und deren Finanzierung sichern. Dies wird nicht nur Auswirkungen...

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....

It is argued that a PAYGO system may have useful allocative functions in that it serves as an insurance against not having children and as an enforcement device for rotten kid' who are unwilling to pay their parents a pension. It is true that the system has amoral hazard effect in terms of...

Contrary to a frequent contention, systems competition cannot work when governments respect the Subsidiarity Principle. The principle implies that governments step in where markets fail. Reintroducing markets through the back door of systems competition will again result in market failure. Three...