This manual briefly describes the theoretical background and development of all of the scales used in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study. It also provides the relevant citations as well as the items belonging to the scales and the answer format, including the verbal anchors. The unique value...

We suggest a concept of convexity of preferences that does not rely on any algebraic structure. A decision maker has in mind a set of orderings interpreted as evaluation criteria. A preference relation is defined to be convex when it satisfies the following: if for each criterion there is an...

The existing literature on the role of international capital fl ows for housing markets can be classifi ed into approaches which focus on the macro relationship between the current account and housing prices on the one hand and studies which specify more specific transmission channels on the...

Die Studie untersucht die Verteilungssymmetrie zwischen Land und Kommunen im Kommunalen Finanzausgleich Schleswig‐Holsteins. Anlass dieser Untersuchung sind die Anträge im Verfahren der kommunalen Verfassungsbeschwerde von drei der elf Kreise des Landes sowie der abstrakten Normenkontrolle...

Legislative and implementation lags imply that substantial time evolves between when news arrives about fiscal changes and when the changes actually take place -- time when households and firms can adjust their behavior. We identify two types of fiscal news -- government spending using the...

This paper studies the empirical and theoretical link between increases in income inequality and increases in current account deficits. Cross-sectional econometric evidence shows that higher top income shares, and also financial liberalization, which is a common policy response to increases in...