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Online Versus Offline : Which Networks Spur Protests?

Potrafke, Niklas; Roesel, Felix - 2022

Does social media or offline social cohesion overcome collective action problems more effectively when both types of networks are prevalent? We investigate non-violent protests against a place-based economic reform in Austria—a country where one in two citizens uses Facebook but also one in...

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Read My Lips? Taxes and Elections

Fuest, Clemens; Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas; … - 2021

We introduce a new dataset that includes quantitative harmonized indices of tax reforms based on qualitative information of about 900 Economic Surveys from the OECD and 37,000 tax-related news from the IBFD archives. The data set provides indicators on tax reforms for tax rates and tax bases,...

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The Global Economic Impact of Politicians : Evidence from an International Survey Rct

Boumans, Dorine; Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas; … - 2021

We use the US presidential election on 3 November 2020 to examine how the US president influences economic expectations of international experts. We design a large-scale RCT among 843 experts working in 107 countries, asking about their expectations regarding GDP growth, unemployment, inflation,...

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Market Democracy, Rising Populism, and Contemporary Ordoliberalism

Dold, Malte; Krieger, Tim - 2024

Populist movements increasingly challenge liberal Western market democracies. Populism can be explained only in part by phenomena like globalization and digitization producing winners and losers in economic terms. Growing feelings of alienation from the market-democratic system and the perceived...

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Moving Out of the Comfort Zone: How Cultural Norms Affect Attitudes toward Immigration

Giesing, Yvonne; Kauder, Björn; Mergele, Lukas; … - 2024

We examine how cultural norms shape attitudes toward immigration. Our causal identification relies on comparing students who moved across the East-West border after German reunification with students who moved within former East Germany. Students who moved from East to West became more positive...

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Gambling for Re-election

Langtry, Alastair; Potrafke, Niklas; Schlepper, Marcel; … - 2024

This paper presents novel empirical evidence that gambling style behaviour – which has been documented in many areas of economic decision-making – is important in politics. We show that politicians 'gamble for re-election' in the context of a political leader selection. To overcome...

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How Institutions Shape Land Deals: The Role of Corruption

Bujko, Matthias; Fischer, Christian; Krieger, Tim; … - 2015

Large-scale land acquisitions often take place in developing countries which are also known for their corruption …-friendliness caused by weak institutional frameworks. We hypothesize that corruption indeed leads to more land deals. We argue that … corrupt elites exploit poor institutional setups (characterized by corruption) to strike deals with domestic and international …

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Looking back on anger: Explaining the social origins of left-wing and nationalist-separatist terrorism in Western Europe, 1970-2007

Brockhoff, Sarah; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2012

A unique dataset is used to separately analyze the social origins of left-wing and nationalist-separatist terrorism in 17 Western European countries between 1970 and 2007. We argue that the differences in the historic roots, ultimate goals as well as their negotiability, levels of domestic and...

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