Ederveen, Sjef, Gorter, Joeri, Mooij, Rudd De, Nahuis, Richard.
[Executive Summary]. How effective is European cohesion policy in reducing regional welfare differences? Can the political game concerning the distribution of funds be consistent with an effective...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of East Anglia, 2000.
European cohesion policy reduce regional disparities? An empirical analysis
European cohesion policy entails predominantly the funding of infrastructure and employment projects in lagging regions of EU Member States. It involves the distribution of more than 35 billion euro...
The remedy may be worse than the disease: A critical account of The Code of Conduct
Joeri Gorter, Khaled Moussa Diaw
The Code of Conduct for business taxation may, diametrically opposed to its intention, aggravate tax competition between EU Member States. The reason is that it induces, by restricting harmful tax...
How mobile is capital within the European Union?
The key result of the tax competition literature is that governments set inefficiently low tax rates on income from internationally mobile production factors. Therefore, there is a case for...
Capital income taxation in Europe: trends and trade offs
The EU capital market integrates. Portfolios become more international, cross border mergers are the order of the day, and never before has there been so much foreign direct investment. This links...
New economic geography, empirics, and regional policy
S.Brakman, H.Garretsen, Joeri Gorter, Marc Schramm
There are doubts about the effectiveness of regional policy. Well known are the fruitless attempts of Italy to bridge the gap between the Mezzogiorno and the North, of Germany to bridge the gap...
Equal rules or equal opportunities? Demystifying level playing field
Marja Appelman, Joeri Gorter, Mark Lijesen, Sander Onderstal, Richard Venniker
Pleas for a level playing field, for instance in international trade, are often not well-founded. This is because it is not exactly clear what a 'level playing field' means. But even if it would be...
Machiel Mulder, Arie Ten Cate, Ali Aouragh, Joeri Gorter
This report analyses the effects of Depreciation at Will (DAW) on offshore gas production, government budget and employment in the gas industry. The DAW enables firms to accelerate deprecation of...
New Economic Geography, Empirics, and Regional Policy
There are doubts about the effectiveness of regional policy. Well known are the vain attempts of Italy to bridge the gap between the Mezzogiorno and the North, of Germany to bridge the gap between...
Cooperation in a modified version of the finitely repeated prisoners' dilemma game
Janssen, Maarten C. W., Gorter, Joeri, Van De Meerendonk, Sjoerd
Harmful Tax Practices: To Brook or to Ban?
Khaled Moussa Diaw, Joeri Gorter
The Code of Conduct for business taxation may, diametrically opposed to its intention, aggravate tax competition between EU Member States. The reason is that, by restricting harmful tax practices, it...
Who benefits from tax competition in the European Union?
Statutory tax rates have declined in the European Union in the recent decades. An applied general equilibrium model on corporate taxation sheds light on the economic and welfare implications of tax...