Die unterschiedlichen Reformkonzepte der Parteien zur Finanzierung der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung spielten im Wahlkampf eine wichtige Rolle. Wie wird sich das Ausgabenvolumen der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung langfristig entwickeln? Welche Belastungen sind mit den unterschiedlichen...

We propose a structural vector-autoregressive model for the German natural gas market to investigate the impact of the 2022 Russian supply stop on the German economy. We combine conventional and narrative sign restrictions to leverage information about supply cuts for identification and find...

Many budget surveys present the interesting features that for a wide range of goods they contain quantity information along with expenditure information, and that the geographical location of households is fairly precise. We take advantage of these features to develop a method for estimation of...

This paper studies the effects of the high-speed internet expansion on the match quality of new hires. They combine data on internet availability at the local level with German individual register and vacancy data. Results show that internet availability has no major impact on the stability of...