Bei dem Neun-Sternchen-Problem geht es darum, neun regelmäßig in einem Quadrat angeordnete Sternchen mit vier zusammenhängenden geraden Linien zu verbinden. Das ist natürlich rein mathematisch gesehen unmöglich, solange man sich nur innerhalb des Quadrates bewegt. Lösbar wird die Aufgabe...

Dieser Sammelband enthält acht Beiträge zur gesamtwirtschaftlichen Allokation, welche vorwiegend die globale Aufteilung der knappen Ressourcen auf den privaten und den öffentlichen Wirtschaftssektor, teilweise ergänzt um einen intermediären Bereich, beinhaltet. Die Autoren suchen normativ...

Globalization radically changes income distribution and triggers intense international tax competition. Therefore, globalization entails an extensive restructuring of the welfare state. We analyze a parsimonious model of an open economy, in its trade and finance transactions with the rest of the...

Globalization radically changes income distribution and triggers intense international tax competition. Therefore, globalization entails an extensive restructuring of the welfare state. We analyze a parsimonious model of an open economy, in its trade and finance transactions with the rest of the...

The theme of this year's WDR is how to structure institutions to bring about an effectively functioning market economy. There is no question that political institutions play a key role here. In most countries political institutions determine the rules of access to considerable discretionary...

Using a new set of micro evidence from an original survey of 28 transition countries, we show that democracy increases citizens' support for the market by guaranteeing income redistribution to inequality-averse agents. Our identification strategy relies on the restriction of the sample to...

The article presents an empirical study of the legitimation of the market economy in the public sphere and examines whether criticism of the market economy has increased as a result of the euro crisis. The research results support the hypothesis of a transformation of the legitimacy basis for...

This new collection critically examines the new global policy of 'good governance'. This catchphrase of aid policy and development thinking has been the subject of too little analysis to date. This book redresses the balance. It places the prefix 'good', and exactly what that means, under the...