Current Publications
Kai A. Konrad, Ronnie Schöb, Marcel Thum, Alfons Weichenrieder (Hrsg.)
Die Zukunft der Wohlfahrtsgesellschaft
Financial crisis, public debt, risk of inflation, demography: The list of scenarios that threaten the welfare state is long and can be extended without difficulty. It raises the question as to whether, under these conditions, the welfare state still has a chance. Can social achievements be preserved given this critical situation? Does the state still have the ability to help the economically stranded and to protect against existential risks, all while creating incentives for companies to take entrepreneurial risks?
Published: Campus Verlag, 2013, 250 pages
More informationGläubigerschutz in der geschlossenen Kapitalgesellschaft
The closed corporation is the most important economic form of business organization worldwide; however, it is often neglected in international academic legal discussions. The special edition 18 of the ZGR attempts to fill this gap in research. In "Rechtsregeln für die geschlossene Kapitalgesellschaft" Gregor Bachmann, Horst Eidenmüller, Andreas Engert, Holger Fleischer and Wolfgang Schön systematically address the typical areas of conflict with regard to a closed corporation.
Published: ZGR, Sonderheft 18, 2012, p. 112 - 162
More informationKai A. Konrad / Stergios Skaperdas
The Market for Protection and the Origin of the State
This paper examines a stark setting in which security or protection can be provided by self-governing groups or by for-profit entrepreneurs (kings, kleptocrats, or mafia dons). Though self-governance is best for the population, it faces problems of long-term viability.
Published: Economic Theory, Volume 50, Issue 2, Pages 417-443, June 2012
More informationKai A. Konrad / Holger Zschäpitz
Schulden ohne Sühne
European leaders tried to solve the European debt crisis by ever larger rescue packages and by a shift of fiscal decision making power and control from the national to the European level. The authors explain why this policy is likely to fail, offer a solution, and explain why the nexus between government debt and the financial sector has prevented this solution.
Published: dtv Verlag; ISBN 978-3-423-34733-4; 288 pages
More informationFortentwicklung der Kapitalmarkthaftung
Der Bereich der Kapitalmarkthaftung entwickelt sich derzeit rasant - sowohl auf europäischer als auch auf nationaler Ebene. Alexander Hellgardt analysiert in drei gerade erschienenen Aufsätzen das aktuelle Geschehen und macht Vorschläge zur Fortentwicklung der Haftung.
Published: Die Aktiengesellschaft / Der Betrieb / Zeitschrift für Bankrecht und Bankwirtschaft / Max Planck Encyclopedia of European Private Law
More informationPhilipp Redeker
Beschaffenheitsbegriff und Beschaffenheitsvereinbarung beim Kauf
Der Anwendungsbereich des Gewährleistungsrechts und die Auslegung der Beschaffenheitsvereinbarung
Published: C.H.Beck
More informationWolfgang Schön, Kai A. Konrad (eds.)
Fundamentals of International Transfer Pricing in Law and Economics
Taxation of multinational corporate groups is a complex undertaking that has become a major concern in the academic and political debate on the future of international taxation. At the centre of current debates lies the determination of transfer prices between related companies. In a recently published book, a number of outstanding experts now focus for the first time on the fundamentals of international transfer pricing from an interdisciplinary legal and economic perspective.
Published: MPI Studies in Tax Law and Public Finance
More informationInformation Alliances in Contests with Budget Limits
We study the role of information exchange through alliances in a framework with contestants who have binding budget limits and know their own budget limit but are incompletely informed about other contestants’ budget limits.
Published: Published in Public Choice
More informationMyck, Michal / Ochmann, Richard / Qari, Salmai
Dynamics in transitory and permanent variation of wages in Germany
We employ covariance structure models to decompose the cross-sectional variance of male wages in Germany into its permanent and transitory parts.
Published: Economics Letters, 2011,Volume 113, Issue 2
More informationDwenger, Nadja / Steiner, Viktor
Profit taxation and the elasticity of the corporate income tax base. Evidence from German corporate tax return data
This paper estimates the elasticity of corporate taxable income with respect to the average corporate tax rate.
Published: Forthcoming in National Tax Journal
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