Karl Havens, 1958–2019

Honor among Tax Havens

This note presents a simple, partial equilibrium model of the supply of offshore tax havens, when multinationals are capable of sheltering some of their worldwide income. It provides a few contrasting predictions to those in “Tax Competition with Parasitic Tax Havens” by Slemrod and Wilson. Slemrod and Wilson model tax sheltering as a production process which uses up scarce resources in the tax...

Pollution Havens and Industrial Agglomeration

Pollution-intensive industries are generally characterized by imperfect competition, increasing returns to scale and large transportation costs. We investigate two countries, N and S, each with two sectors. Manufacturing generates cross-border pollution which reduces agricultural production. Firms can freely move across country borders, but not workers. First, we show that pollution lowers loca...

Karl Sigmund.

Program Thursday, October 29 10:00 – 10:20 Opening addresses by Vice-Rector Prof. Dr. Heinz Faßmann and by Dean Prof. Dr. Harald Rindler 10:20 – 11:15 Peter Schuster: “Modeling cooperation – From molecules to man” 11:15 – 12:10 Martin Nowak: “Natural cooperation” 12:10 – 14:00 Lunch 14:00 – 14:55 Sebastian Schreiber: "Fitness covariances and coexistence of interacting, structured populations" 1...

Marx, Karl

Marx was drawn towards politics by Romantic literature and his earliest writings embody a conception of reality as subject to turbulent change and of human beings as realizing themselves in the struggle for freedom. His identification with these elements in HEGEL's thought (and his contempt for what he regarded as HEGEL's apologetic attitude towards the Prussian state) brought Marx to associate...

Havens' haemagglutination test in infective hepatitis.