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Too healthy to fall sick? : longevity expectations and protective health behaviours during the first wave of Covid-19

Celidoni, Martina; Costa-Font, Joan; Salmasi, Luca - 2022

Longevity expectations (LE) are subjective assessments of future health status that can influence a number of … individual health protective decisions. This is especially true during a pandemic such as COVID-19, as the risk of ill health … on protective health behaviours and a number of decisions around access to health care, using data from the Survey of …

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On the political economics of tax reforms

Castanheira, Micael; Nicodème, Gaëtan J.A.; Profeta, Paola - 2011

There is often a gap between the prescriptions of an "optimal" tax system and actual tax systems, some of which can be neither efficient economically nor efficient at redistributing income. With a focus on personal income taxes, this paper reviews the political economics literature on tax...

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Building a Better Union : Incentivizing Structural Reforms in the Euro Area

Banerji, Angana - 2015

The momentum for structural reforms is waning in the euro area at a time when even faster progress is needed to boost productivity and growth, achieve real economic convergence, and improve the resilience of the monetary union. What can the European Union (EU) institutions do to bridge this...

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Bank Lobbying : Regulatory Capture and Beyond

Igan, Deniz; Lambert, Thomas - 2021

In this paper, we discuss whether and how bank lobbying can lead to regulatory capture and have real consequences through an overview of the motivations behind bank lobbying and of recent empirical evidence on the subject. Overall, the findings are consistent with regulatory capture, which...

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Are immigrants more left-leaning than natives?

Moriconi, Simone; Peri, Giovanni; Turati, Riccardo - 2022

We analyze whether second generation immigrants have different political preferences relative to observationally identical host country's citizens. Using data on individual voting behavior in 22 European countries between 2001 and 2017 we characterize each vote on a left-right scale using...

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The ideological use and abuse of Freiburg's ordoliberalism

Dold, Malte; Krieger, Tim - 2020

In the aftermath of the Eurozone crisis, a battle of ideas emerged over whether ordoliberalism is part of the cause or the solution of economic problems in Europe. While German ordoliberals argued that their policy proposals were largely ignored before, during and after the crisis, critics saw...

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Migrants' missing votes

Giesing, Yvonne; Schikora, Felicitas - 2020

Emigrants are less likely to participate in elections in their home country. They are also self-selected in terms of education, gender, age, and political preferences, changing the structure of the origin population. High emigration rates can therefore have a systematic influence on election...

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East versus West on the European populism scale

Gunnarsson, Jonas A.; Gylfi Zoega - 2017

We study a sample of individuals in 20 European countries that includes eight East European countries in order to identify whether these eight countries differ from the Western countries in the popularity of right-wing populist parties once we have controlled for personal attributes. The results...

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Dragnet-controls and government ideology

Potrafke, Niklas - 2019

In many European countries established leftwing and rightwing parties have been threatened by policy convergence and, in turn, new populist parties that offer more polarized platforms. I investigate whether government ideology influences dragnet-controls - controls of persons conducted by the...

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The renaissance of ordoliberalism in the 1970s and 1980s

Krieger, Tim; Nientiedt, Daniel - 2023

The economic tradition of ordoliberalism, understood as the theoretical and policy ideas of the Freiburg School, emerged in 1930s and 1940s Germany. In the years thereafter, it was quickly superseded by Keynesianism and other theories imported from the English-speaking world. The crisis in...

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