We examine partisan bias in inflation expectations. Our dataset includes inflation expectations of the New York Fed's Survey of Consumer Expectations over the period June 2013 to June 2018. The results show that inflation expectations were 0.46 percentage points higher in Republican-dominated...

Der Zustand der heimischen Wirtschaft wird durch die Brille parteipolitischer Überzeugungen unterschiedlich wahrgenommen. Regiert eine Partei, der die Bürger nahestehen, wird der Zustand der heimischen Wirtschaft (z.B. BIP-Wachstum, Arbeitslosigkeit, Inflation) von diesen Bürgern als besser...

We examine partisan bias in inflation expectations. Our dataset includes inflation expectations of the New York Fed's Survey of Consumer Expectations over the period June 2013 to June 2018. The results show that inflation expectations were 0.46 percentage points higher in Republican-dominated...

We examine partisan bias in inflation expectations. Our dataset includes inflation expectations of the New York Fed's Survey of Consumer Expectations over the period June 2013 to June 2018. The results show that inflation expectations were 0.46 percentage points higher in Republican-dominated...

Social interactions affect individual behavior in a variety of ways, but their effects on expectation formation are less well understood. We design a large-scale global survey experiment among renowned experts working in 135 countries to study whether peer effects impact expectations about the...

Can political leaders influence macroeconomic expectations on a global scale? We design a large-scale survey experiment among influential economic experts working in more than 100 countries and use the 2020 US presidential election as a quasi-natural experiment to identify the effect of the US...

The US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) promotes renewable energy and contributes to climate protection, but also offers generous tax credits and subsidies to incentivize production in the United States. While the planned generosity of the program has sparked an intense debate about potential...

Research on many important questions on taxation is impeded by a lack of cross-nationally comparable data. We introduce a new dataset that includes quantitative harmonized indices of tax reforms based on qualitative information of about 900 Economic Surveys from the OECD and 37,000 tax-related...

Finanzwissenschaftliche Theorien legen nahe, dass Mehrpar-teienregierungen wie die Ampel-Koalition mehr ausgeben und höhere Haushaltsdefizite haben als Regierungen mit ein oder zwei Parteien. Diese Studie untersucht anhand neuer Daten von Industrieländern, wie belastbar diese Theorien sind....