Sinn The New Systems Competition

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-4205-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Yrjo Jahnsson Lectures

Competition between companies tends to be beneficial for thegeneral public, but is this also true for competition betweenStates in a world with global financial markets, low transportcosts, and increasing migration? In this book, Sinn provides asolid economic analysis of the competitive forces at work andaddresses how we should organize competition between systems sothey will enhance the efficiency of these systems, as opposed toacting destructively on them.
* Provides a thorough economic analysis of the competitive forcesat work between nations and governments.
* Analyzes a wide range of state activities, including taxation,public goods provision, income redistribution, environmentalpolicy, safety standards, and competition policy.
* Addresses ways to organize competition so it will enhance theefficiency of these systems.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sinn, Hans-Werner

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables and Figures.
Preface.
1 Competition among States.
2 Taxes and Public Infrastructure Goods.
3 The Erosion of the Welfare State.
4 Social Dumping in the Transformation Process?
5 Ecological Competition.
6 The Competition of Product Standards.
7 Limited Liability, Risk Taking and the Competition of BankRegulators.
8 The Competition of Competition Rules.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Hans-Werner Sinnis Professor of Economics and Public Finance at the University of Munich and directs the international CESifo Research Network. He is also President of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research and Director of the Center for Economic Studies (CES) at the University of Munich. Professor Sinn has served as Chairman of the German Economic Association, taught at the University of Western Ontario, held guest professorships in various international universities, and has received honorary titles from the universities of Magdeburg and Vienna. He is the author of numerous books, including Jumpstart: The Economic Unification of Germany (1992) and has contributed to many scientific journals.