This paper provides a systematic assessment of academic economics teaching, research and policy advice in Germany. It assembles recent empirical studies and contributes by presenting their main findings in a comprehensible manner as well as contextualizing them in the current economic and...

Am 5. September 2011 veröffentlichte das Handelsblatt das VWL-Ranking 2011. Der vorliegende Beitrag unterwirft die Methodik des Handelsblatts einer kurzen Kritik und vergleicht anschließend das Ranking mit demjenigen von RePEc.

Am 5. September 2011 veröffentlichte das Handelsblatt das VWL-Ranking 2011. Der vorliegende Beitrag unterwirft die Methodik des Handelsblatts einer kurzen Kritik und vergleicht anschließend das Ranking mit demjenigen von RePEc.

Recently, international scholars found two factors that account for partisanship with right-wing populist parties: feelings of economic insecurity and perceived cultural threat. When explaining increasing partisanship with the Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany, AfD), the...

We provide novel evidence on how right-wing (populist) rhetoric spreads. Using several thousand speeches from the German parliament, we show that exposure to politicians from the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) leads mainstream politicians to adopt a more distinctively...

More than just a few politicians and scientists see an imbalance in policy’s primary orientation toward economic goals, especially the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In view of scientific and public discourses on prosperity, this report analyzes how voting-eligible Germans, the electorate,...