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Über problematische Straßennamen und Denkmäler wird politisch debattiert. Wie der öffentliche Raum aussieht, wird gemeinhin nicht als juristische Frage behandelt. Trotzdem taucht die Frage, was die Gesellschaft im öffentlichen Raum sehen will, auch als rechtliches Argument auf. Wann erkennt der Diskurs solche Fragen politischer Ästhetik als juristisches Argument an? Und welche Bedingungen entscheiden darüber?
Governments, economists and intellectuals have called for common European bonds or increased own EU funds to address the recession induced by Covid19. Unfortunately, the German government, joined by the other members of the “Frugal Four” (Austria, Finland, the Netherlands), has categorically rejected to look into any such measures and favours using the ESM. This reaction created a déjà vu experience for citizens and governments of the heavily affected southern Member States of the EU. The proposal to use the ESM raises fears of another wave of austerity amounting to yet another lost decade for economic, social, and ecological development in Europe.
This paper documents that resource reallocation across firms is an important mechanism through which creditor rights affect real outcomes. I exploit the staggered adoption of an international convention that provides globally consistent strong creditor protection for aircraft finance. After this reform, country-level productivity in the aviation sector increases by 12%, driven mostly by across-firm reallocation. Productive airlines borrow more, expand, and adopt new technology at the expense of unproductive ones. Such reallocation is facilitated by (i) easier and quicker asset redeployment; and (ii) the influx of foreign financiers offering innovative financial products to improve credit allocative efficiency. I further document an increase in competition and an improvement in the breadth and the quality of products available to consumers.
We present novel evidence on the value of cross-border political access. We analyze data on meetings of US multinational enterprises (MNEs) with European Commission (EC) policymakers. Meetings with Commissioners are associated with positive abnormal equity returns. We study channels of value creation through political access in the areas of regulation and taxation. US enterprises with EC meetings are more likely to receive favorable outcomes in their European merger decisions and have lower effective tax rates on foreign income than their peers without meetings. Our results suggest that access to foreign policymakers is of substantial value for MNEs.
A new virus, SARS-CoV-2, emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan at the end of 2019. Infected persons developed an atypical form of pneumonia, later known as COVID-19. The pathogen created a pandemic, with fatalities throughout the world, and also led to the adoption of restrictive measures which were, until recently, unthinkable, as well as fostering new political conflicts. Even the path of the multilateral order in its current form is at stake. For a take on these issues under international law, the legal regime of the World Health Organization (WHO) and its response to the pandemic provides an insightful access. ...
Datenschutz versus Katastrophenschutz : Standortdaten als Mittel zur Bekämpfung der Corona-Pandemie
(2020)
Einige Länder setzen Standortdaten jetzt schon gezielt ein, um die weitere Ausbreitung von Covid-19 einzudämmen. Ein Gesetzentwurf von Bundesgesundheitsminister Jens Spahn, der weitreichende Befugnisse vorsah, um mithilfe von Standortdaten Kontaktpersonen von Infizierten über deren Handys zu orten, stieß auf teilweise heftige Kritik. Der Gesetzentwurf wurde daraufhin zurückgezogen, ohne dass nähere Einzelheiten an die Öffentlichkeit gelangt sind. Ein genauer Blick zeigt jedoch, dass eine Verarbeitung von Standortgesundheitsdaten nicht nur tatsächlich nützlich sein kann, sondern auch rechtlich möglich ist.
We investigate the impact of reporting regulation on corporate innovation. Exploiting thresholds in Europe’s regulation and a major enforcement reform in Germany, we find that forcing firms to publicly disclose their financial statements discourages innovative activities. Our evidence suggests that reporting regulation has significant real effects by imposing proprietary costs on innovative firms, which in turn diminish their incentives to innovate. At the industry level, positive information spillovers (e.g., to competitors, suppliers, and customers) appear insufficient to compensate the negative direct effect on the prevalence of innovative activity. The spillovers instead appear to concentrate innovation among a few large firms in a given industry. Thus, financial reporting regulation has important aggregate and distributional effects on corporate innovation.