Die akademische Literatur liefert zahlreiche Beispiele dafür, wie Konflikte bezüglich der Verteilung von Ressourcen Wahlen, politische Präferenzen sowie Handeln und somit auch das politische Alltagsgeschehen beeinflussen. Die vorliegende Dissertation untersucht solche Prozesse und illustriert...

A couple of recent papers have shifted the focus towards disagreement of professional forecasters. When dealing with survey data that is sampled at a frequency higher than annual and that includes only fixed event forecasts, e.g. expectation of average annual growth rates measures of...

In this paper we compare estimates of immigrants' labor supply assimilation profiles using the Current Population Survey Annual Demographic Files (March ADS) and the Current Population Survey Outgoing Rotation Groups (ORGs). We use a measure that is seemingly consistent across both surveys:...