The relationship between democracy and globalisation has been the focus of substantial policy and academic debate. Some argue that democracy and globalisation go hand in hand suggesting that unrestricted international transactions leads to increased political accountability and transparency....

Existing literature on cross-national variation in violence has paid little attention to the transnational transmission of crime. One such channel are the forced returns of migrants with a criminal record in their countries of temporary residence. Responding to this research gap, we study the...

This paper focuses on understanding the relation between food insecurity and trust. Trust is crucial for well-functioning public institutions, enhances social capital, increases the success of public health interventions, and is vital for economic development. We differentiate between vertical...

Die aktuelle energiepolitische Debatte hat die längerfristigen Perspektiven einer nachhaltigen Energieversorgung allzu sehr aus dem Blick verloren. Vor allem die Potentiale der Kernfusion werden in der öffentlichen Diskussion kaum wahrgenommen. Dabei würden sich viele Probleme, die mit dem...

In state-of-the-art macroeconomic and labor market models shocks are assumed to be homoscedastic. However, we show that this assumption is much too restrictive. We estimate the conditional variance-covariance matrix using a VAR-DCC model and discuss the time-varying risk contained in a large set...