The Taboo Challenge Competition

Tax Competition : How Great Is the Challenge ?

Hardly any week passes by in ‘Old Europe’ without a discussion about tax reforms as a reaction to the fl at tax challenge of new member countries of the European Union (EU). By many observers this is interpreted as an expression of the race to the bottom that supposedly results from fi erce tax competition in Europe and around the globe. Instead of looking at descriptive fi gures of corporate i...

The challenge of 'real' competition in Medicare.

Competition policy: The challenge of digital markets

The last taboo?

Japan Tests the Nuclear Taboo

This article examines whether recent changes in the security environment, including North Korea’s nuclear test of October 2006, are driving Japan to consider the acquisition of its own nuclear deterrent. It argues that a combination of three factors have thus far sustained Japan’s nuclear restraint: (1) national identity as a non-nuclear weapon state, (2) commitment to global nuclear nonprolife...