Does economic policy uncertainty affect household stockholding? To answer this question we create a novel measure of … household exposure to economic policy uncertainty news by combining survey information on the hours a household spends in … reading newspapers and the frequency of such news in the popular press during a household's pre-interview period. After …

Arbeitsmarktentwicklung und die Arbeitsmarktprobleme in Deutschland. Vor diesem Hintergrund erfolgt eine Analyse und Bewertung der Reform von …

We use a new and exceptionally rich administrative data set for Germany to evaluate the employment effects of a variety … dynamic selection into programs. Our results suggest that in West Germany both short-term and medium-term programs show … exceptions, we find little evidence for significant positive treatment effects in East Germany. There is some evidence that the …