proxy trade shock with swiftly rising import competition from China and compare the voting pattern at the parliamentary … instrument import competition with Chinese export flows to other high-income countries and estimate the model in first … cast invalid votes or even abstain from voting. To rationalize these findings, we offer evidence that import competition …

Since 1970 public debt in Germany has risen dramatically. The debt growth has neither been stopped by the …

modelling flat tax reform proposals for Germany. Taking the general equilibrium effects into account has important implications …

In many countries, also in Germany, information on the benefits of publicly provided goods is rather poor compared to …

eÞects, however, are quite small. Although we have derived our results for the case of Germany, we do think that similar …

This paper deals with the impact of electoral competition on politicians ́outside earnings. We propose a simple … negatively related to the degree of electoral competition. We test this implication using a new dataset on outside earnings of … members of the German federal assembly. Taking into account the potential endogeneity of measures of political competition …