China is perceived to rely on subsidizing firms in targeted industries to improve their performance and stay competitive. We implement an approach that allows for the joint estimation of direct and indirect effects of subsidies on subsidized and...

The 2021 pandora papers show that many wealthy individuals and even politicians use shell companies to hide their fortunes. In order to fight international personal tax evasion, the Common Reporting Standard (CRS) was implemented and it helped...

From an economic point of view, vaccine mandates are a negative incentive to get vaccinated. Positive incentives that induce unvaccinated individuals just as effectively – such as government-provided cash incentives – can be more flexible and avoid...

KBW 37: The present Kiel subsidy report focuses on the analysis of federal financial assistance in 2021 and the extent to which expenditures in 2020 and 2021 related to the Corona pandemic are subsidies.

Redistribution differs widely across countries, but our understanding of why this is the case is limited. In democracies, the extent of redistribution s

Different reports including the broadly cited OECD fossil fuel subsidy inventory arrive at high monetary values of fossil fuel subsidies and suggest tha

This paper introduces endogenous technological change in a Hotelling-Herfindahl model of natural resource use to study the recent developments

... unilaterally, and tax sales of American digital companies -- which would be associated with high potential for conflict," Gabriel Felbermayr, president of Germany''s Kiel Institute for the World Economy ...

KBW 30: The authors note that, although public budgets showed significant surpluses before the Corona crisis, both revenues and expenditures had risen noticeably relative to economic output.

KBW 29: The new Kiel Subsidy Report analyses the financial aid provided by the federal government (including ancillary budgets) and the tax concessions granted as a whole up to the 2020 budget.