research productivity follows distinct life cycles. Using an encompassing data set portraying the research behavior of German … academic economists, we first show that research productivity crucially depends on career age and vintage. Based on the … research grants. We then go on to investigate the persistence of individual productivity. The Persistence issue is of special …

it to data on the business tax rates of about 11,500 German municipalities. On average 8% of the municipalities adjust … wages. The detailed administrative data allow us to estimate heterogenous incidence eects and to explore different channels …

This is one of the first studies to estimate a popularity function at the microlevel. Using German microlevel data for … and personal economic situation into account. We find no evidence for a grievance asymmetry, i.e., voters not only punish …