Die Untersuchung der durch staatliche Aktivität ausgelösten Zahlungen – seien es Steuern und Abgaben auf der Einnahmenseite oder öffentliche Ausgaben – besitzt traditionsgemäß einen hohen Stellenwert in der empirischen Finanzwissenschaft. Ziel der vorliegenden Studie des Instituts für...

When potential beneficiaries share their knowledge and attitudes about a policy intervention, their decision to participate and the effectiveness of both the policy and its evaluation may be influenced. This matters most notably in integrated social policies with several components. In this...

Shocks to the demand for housing that originate in one region may seem important only for that regional housing market. We provide evidence that such shocks can also affect housing markets in other regions. Our analysis focuses on the response of Canadian housing markets to oil price shocks. We...

This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries. Since the estimation of that impact can depend on the order in which the various income sources are introduced into the analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates...