Essays in fiscal federalism [Elektronische Ressource] : welfare competition and the funding of higher education / vorgelegt von Malte Hübner

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Essays in Fiscal Federalism- Welfare Competition and theFunding of Higher Education-Inauguraldissertationzur Erlangung des akademischen Gradeseines Doktors der Wirtschaftswissenschaftender Universit¨at Mannheimvorgelegt vonMalte Hu¨bnerJuni 2009Abteilungssprecher: Prof. Tom Krebs, PhDReferent: Prof. Dr. Eckhard JanebaKorreferent: Prof. Dr. Robert SchwagerTag der Verteidigung: Freitag, 20. November 2009AcknowledgementsFirst of all, I would like to thank my supervisor Eckhard Janeba for giving me the op-portunity towork onthetopicspresented inthisthesis. Ialso appreciated hisinvaluableguidance, instructive feedback and the great research environment at his chair.This thesis has also benefitted a lot from helpful discussions with participants in thepriority program ”Institutional Design of Federal Systems” of the German ResearchFoundation (DFG).I am grateful to Robert Schwager for many helpful comments and discussions duringvarious workshops and for acting as a referee on my thesis committee.During the time at the Chair of Public Finance I enjoyed working with my colleaguesJennifer Abel-Koch, Nicole Borheier and Bj¨orn Sass and appreciated very much thefriendly atmosphere and the numerous constructive comments.In the past five years I have also received a lot of support from my colleagues at theCenter for Doctoral Studies in Economics (CDSE) at the University of Mannheim.

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• Publié par: universitat_mannheim
• Publié le: 01 janvier 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 23
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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