contribution rule under democracy is driven by self-selection of treatments, information transmitted via the outcome of the … referendum, and democracy per se. In case treatments are endogenously chosen via a democratic decision-making process, the …

We present a simple model, illustrating how democracy may improve the quality of the economic institutions. The model … further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect …

The ECB reform is designed to meet the challenges of an enlarged monetary union in the ECB Council. The reform is …

public administration reforms for a panel of EU countries using a novel reform indicator. The findings support the political … opportunities of a crisis to promote this particular type of reform. Furthermore, there is evidence for horizontal learning from …

proposals to reform social welfare in the recent German policy debate. We analyse a specific reform proposal with the following … effects of this welfare reform proposal are simulated on the basis of an econometrically estimated partialequilibrium labour … expenditures may be substantial, although the expected labour supply and employment effects of this reform are much smaller than is …