This Festschrift in honor ofChristian Seidl combines a group of prominent authors who are experts in areas like public economics, welfare economic, decision theory, and experimental economics in a unique volume. Christian Seidl who has edited together with Salvador Barber a and Peter Hammond the Handbook of Utility Theory (appearing at Kluwer Academic Publishers/Springer Economics), has dedicated most of his research to utility and decision theory, social choice theory, welfare economics, and public economics. During the last decade, he has turned part of his attention to a research tool that...

On October 24th, 1994, the pro-government German newspaper 'Die Welt' reported that the Minister of Family Affairs, Mrs. Hannelore Ransch, member of the ruling Christian Democratic Union (CD U), withdrew her candidacy for a second term after serving a four year term. While Chancellor Helmut Kohl and other party colleagues officially expressed their regret for this move, the conservative press openly announced their relief. A symbolic photo of Ransch was published together with the article: In the background, two direction indicators are discernable, one pointing to the 'emergency exit' and...

This is the first book that performs international and intertemporal comparisons of uniform tax progression with empirical data. While conventional measures of tax progression suffer from serious disadvantages for empirical analyses, this book extends uniform measures to progression comparisons of countries with different income distributions. Tax progression is analyzed in terms of Lorenz curve and Suits curve equivalents of net incomes and taxes. The authors derive six distinct definitions of the relation "is more progressive than," which are then utilized for an empirical analysis of 13...

Zu Beginn der PC-Entwicklung wurden PC's hauptsachlich zum Zwecke des gemeinsa men Nutzens von Dateien und Druckern vernetzt. Nicht zuletzt durch den EinfluB des In ternets werden mit Hilfe von PC's immer mehr client-/serverbasierte Infrastrukturen auf gebaut. Die auf den PC's verftigbaren Betriebssysteme bieten dazu unterschiedlichste Vn tersttitzungen zum Aufbau eines verteilten Systems. Das vorliegende Buch beschreibt dazu die wichtigsten auf PC's verftigbaren Betriebssy sterne und deren Fiihigkeiten zum Aufbau eines verteilten Systems. Der Schwerpunkt des Buches liegt dabei eindeutig auf...

Almost all advanced democracies have launched significant privatization programs over the last three decades. However, while there was a global run into privatization, substantial cross-national differences in the divesture of state-owned enterprises can be observed. This book focuses on the political economy of privatization, and addresses the questions 'What are the driving forces behind this development and how can the variation be explained?' which are of both theoretical and empirical interest.
While the topic itself is not new, the existing comparative literature on the political...