In der Arbeit wird untersucht, ob Steuern die räumliche Allokation von Kapital beeinflussen. Die vorliegenden Ergebnisse belegen, daß die beobachtbare internationale Steuer-Standort-Konkurrenz um grenzüberschreitende Investitionen und Investoren theoretisch und empirisch nicht begründet...

We show that the Kaldor (1940) trade cycle mechanism can be meaningfully applied to the market for residential housing space, since the demand for houses may be positively related to the housing price in a mid-range price domain, while it is downward sloping for house prices sufficiently small...

In the wake of the financial crisis of 2007-8 academic as well as non-academic interest in the economic thought of John Maynard Keynes was revived. The notion of a 'liquidity trap', interpreted as a zero bound of the (short-term) nominal rate of interest, is seen as one of Keynes's important and...

The recent global financial crises has caused renewed interest in the economic theories of John Maynard Keynes. In the general public and parts of academe Keynes is seen as the one economist who had very clear knowledge of the instability of markets, the volatility of economic activity and the...