given party ideological predispositions and power distribution determine the expected policy outcome. Our analysis applies … weighted by power. Our second result clarifies how the success of an interest group hinges on the dominance of its ideology in … effect of ideological predispositions and power on the efforts of the interest groups. …

standards in economics around the world been reflected in research performance? How have individual countries fared? Do research … research, the US maintains a dominant position. The main continental European countries, Germany, France, Italy and Spain …

This chapter investigates the integration processes of immigrants in Germany by comparing certain immigrant groups to … Germany. …

miracle. In response to the crisis, Germany has shown to be a strong case of internal flexibility. We argue that important … reforms, the nature of the crisis affecting mainly export-oriented companies in Germany, the extension of short-time work, the …

of migration flows from the New Member States to Germany. We demonstrate that immigration increased substantially despite … that Germany would have been better off, had it immediately opened its labor market. Finally, the Great recession allows us …

This paper tests two hypotheses from the theory of elimination tournaments: (i) that uneven tournaments, where the … contestants are ex ante heterogeneous, entail lower effort exertion; this is a prediction from agency theory that has not been … underlies any agency theory about elimination tournaments, and has been empirically tested in other contexts. The evidence …

the role of the econometric specification. We present a simple theory of the economic and demographic transition where … individuals' education and fertility decisions depend on their life expectancy. The theory predicts that before the demographic …