The paper argues that measuring revealed comparative advantages (RCA) in international trade in services cannot be straightforwardly compared to RCA in trade in goods. The essential difference is that services are internationally exchanged not only by cross-border trade mainly subject to...

We try to identify which economic factors might be responsible for the large international differences in student performance. We present time series evidence for a number of European countries which suggests that rising educational expenditures obviously did not improve student performance....

In den letzten Monaten ist die Frage der künftigen Ausgestaltung der Umsatzbesteuerung im Binnenmarkt erneut in den Blickpunkt der wirtschaftspolitischen Diskussion geraten. Das ursprünglich bis zum Ende des Jahres 1996 terminierte Übergangssystem der Umsatzbesteuerung im europäischen...

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Initiatives to reduce transatlantic trade barriers or to harmonize trade-related domestic policies in the EU and the US appear regularly on the agenda of policy makers. The last decade saw also considerable steps in transatlantic economic cooperation focusing on special aspects. In February...