After presenting some casual evidence about the difference between economists and the rest of the population, first the … presented where the citizens decided against recommendations of most economists. But what is so particular in economic theory … respect to the normative convictions of economists. The paper concludes with possible consequences which economists might draw. …

Academic economists today are caught in a “Publication Impossibility Theorem System” or PITS. To further their careers …

Most professional economists believe that economists in general are more selfish than other persons and that this … particular behavior of economists can be explained by a selection effect. …

international trade, self-enforcing - or stable - IEAs may comprise up to 60% of all countries (Eichner and Pethig 2013). But these … coalitions are Stackelberg leaders and set tariffs in addition to their cap-and-trade schemes. Surprisingly, these smaller IEAs …

We study the effect of international trade and freeness of trade (openness) on interregional inequality within … on weighted trade shares and trade costs. In addition to the standard trade-to-GDP ratio, we derive and propose an … aggregate freeness-of-trade measure based on phiness of trade. Both measures are instrumented by proxies constructed from …

We develop a heterogeneous-firms model with trade in goods, labor mobility and credit constraints due to moral hazard … trade liberalization. While the former leads to more dispersion of economic activity across space, the latter tends to drive …

on the volume of intermediate goods trade and the number of varieties produced are mutually reinforcing, resulting in a …

regional inequality. Geography, mobility and trade openness are also highly important. …