Since 2010, Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft (GAFAM) have acquired more than 400 companies. Competition authorities did not scrutinize most of these transactions and blocked none. This raised concerns that GAFAM acquisitions target potential competitors yet fly under the radar of current merger control due to the features of the digital economy. We empirically study the competitive effects ...
Wealth is very unequally distributed in Germany. To effect a long-term reduction, the new Federal Government could focus on more effectively promoting home ownership, supplementary retirement provision, and other precautionary savings. However, a universal capital endowment could decrease wealth inequality much more rapidly and successfully. In this report, a universal capital endowment of up to 20,000 ...
DIW-Berechnungen zeigen, wie ein Grunderbe die Vermögensungleichheit verringern würde – Finanzierung durch vermögensbezogene Steuern sinnvoll – Beide Komponenten zusammen würden Vermögensungleichheit gemessen am Gini-Koeffizienten um bis zu sieben Prozent senken Ein Grunderbe in Höhe von bis zu 20.000 Euro für alle 18-Jährigen und deren Finanzierung ...
In Deutschland sind die Vermögen sehr ungleich verteilt. Um die hohe Ungleichheit langfristig zu reduzieren, könnte die neue Bundesregierung das Wohneigentum, die ergänzende Altersvorsorge und sonstiges Vorsorgesparen stärker fördern. Deutlich schneller und effektiver könnte ein Grunderbe die Vermögensungleichheit senken. In diesem Bericht wird ein Grunderbe von bis zu 20 000 Euro simuliert, das an ...
This paper links banking system development to the colonial and legal history of African countries. Based on a sample of 40 African countries from 2000 to 2018, our empirical findings show a significant dependence of current financial institutions on the inherited legal origin and the colonization type. Findings also reveal that current financial legal institutions are not major determinants of banking ...
The system of capital taxation consists of two instruments, namely a tax on profits and a depreciation allowance on investment. We will show in this paper that by acting on both instruments simultaneously it is possible to achieve both a growth and a fiscal net revenue target even in cases when a trade off prevails when each instrument is used individually. This is an application of the Tinbergen rule ...