This paper outlines and examines the taxation implications (primarily income tax) for residents of the United Kingdom (UK) and Australia also citizens and permanent residents of the United States (US) who are employed overseas. In addition to identifying specific taxation implications for...

Die "Auswirkungen gesetzlicher Regelungen über die Beitragspflicht von kammerzugehörigen Unternehmen" war Gegenstand eines Forschungsauftrags aus dem Jahr 1997, dessen Ergebnisse in der vorliegenden Studie veröffentlicht sind. Um die möglichen Wirkungen der Freistellung von kleineren...

Die vorliegende Studie liefert in drei gleichrangigen Teilen empirische Befunde zu den Steuern und Beiträgen auf lokaler Ebene. In den ersten beiden Teilen wird die Realsteuerpolitik deutscher Kommunen quantitativ datenempirisch und qualitativ in Form einer Expertenbefragung untersucht. Hierbei...

In recent years the increase in the divorce rate in many advanced countries and the predominance of female-headed families among the poor has generated much interest in the relationship between divorce and the welfare of mothers and children. In this paper I will review a small body of economic...

We test the rational economic model of marginal deterrence of law enforcement - i.e., the need for graduating the penalty to the severity of the crime. We combine individual-level data on sentence length for a representative sample of US inmates with proxies for maximum punishment and monitoring...

This Article represents the first empirical study of the effects of bad-faith laws on claims decisionmaking by insurance companies. One of the most notable and debated developments in the law of tort and insurance since the 1970s has been the recognition in many states of an extracontractual...

This article is based on my keynote address at the American Academy of Economic and Financial Experts conference in which I examined some of the implications for legal contexts of my book, Pricing Lives: Guideposts for a Safer Society. The value of a statistical life (VSL) provides an economic...