Several empirical studies derive that personal positions with respect to policy measures are dominated by ideology instead of narrow self-interest. In the present field study we carried out a telephone survey with 1.003 respondents all over Austria. Instead of only measuring self-interest...

Several empirical studies derive that personal positions with respect to policy measures are dominated by ideology instead of narrow self-interest. In the present field study we carried out a telephone survey with 1,003 respondents all over Austria. Instead of measuring selfishness indirectly by...

Bei diesem Beitrag handelt es sich um die Schriftfassung der Dritten Wilhelm-Röpke-Vorlesung, die der stellvertretende Chefredaktor und Leiter der Wirtschaftsredaktion der Neuen Zürcher Zeitung, Dr. Gerhard Schwarz, am 12. Februar 2009 in der Thüringer Aufbaubank in Erfurt gehalten hat. Die...

Von Vertrauen wird in der Wirtschaft und in der Politik sehr oft gesprochen, meist ohne viel darüber nachzudenken. Häufig werden negative Entwicklungen und Ereignisse nicht zuletzt auf fehlendes Vertrauen zurückgeführt. Doch es muss klar sein, dass mehr Vertrauen nicht entsteht, indem es...

The present paper investigates the link between exports and the outward FDI stock using a panel of industries and seven EU countries for the period 1973-2004. In particular, we use the panel causality tests developed by Holtz-Eakin, Newey, and Rosen (1988). Estimates using system GMM estimators...

This paper investigates the determinants of the trade balance using panel data for 32 industrialized and emerging economies for the period 1990?2007. The results based on fixed effects models and linear mixed models allowing for random slope coefficients, show that the trade balance as a...