With support from the Austrian Science Fund FWF, a research team from Innsbruck conducted a field study on the question of whether customers can protect themselves against being defrauded by sellers in a credence goods market by seeking online information. The market for computer repairs served as an example. Continue reading “Misinformed consumers pay more”
In a project financed by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, a research group from Klagenfurt examined what budgetary policy measures a small eurozone country might take to cushion the consequences of a crisis. Slovenia served as an example. Continue reading “Research and education alleviate economic crises”
A team of researchers from the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) investigated the effect of climate-protection measures on companies. The influence on competitiveness turned out to be negligible, while the positive environmental impact was confirmed. Continue reading “Climate-friendly measures don’t impair companies’ competitiveness”
Being both a researcher and an entrepreneur, Katharina Fellnhofer builds a bridge between theory and practice. At the Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland the Schrödinger Fellow explores how best to teach successful entrepreneurship. Continue reading “Finnish career paths”
The efforts to counteract the tax planning models used by companies to avoid paying taxes could be very costly for the “ordinary” taxpayer if a current recommendation of the EU Commission is adopted. This is the argument presented by tax law expert Christoph Marchgraber in a recent award-winning study. Continue reading “Fight against tax avoidance”