Der Sachverständigenrat für Verbraucherfragen hat erstmals ein breit angelegtes Gutachten zur Lage der Verbraucher:innen in Deutschland vorgelegt. Gert G. Wagner, Mitglied im Sachverständigenrat für Verbraucherfragen, stellt aus seiner persönlichen Sicht ausgewählte Analysen, Ergebnisse...

The literature on subjective well-being (SWB) and the environment has found robust evidence of positive net marginal SWB from pro-environmental behavior (PEB), that is, positive marginal SWB net of the associated costs in terms of money, time and effort (Finding 1). Accordingly, people could...

This paper is the first to link economic theory with empirical life-satisfaction analyses referring to internal migration. We derive an extension of the Roback (1982) model to account for benefits from regional amenities in the utility function, while controlling for income, housing costs, and...

In Deutschland sind die Aufsichtsratsbildung sowie die damit einhergehende Arbeitnehmermitbestimmung abhaengig von der Rechtsform und Firmengroesse gesetzlich vorgeschrieben. Die vorliegende Arbeit demonstriert, dass entgegen den rechtskraeftigen Regelungen weniger als die Haelfte aller GmbHs im...

While we know much about the economic impact of immigration for host-country residents, we know comparatively little about the psychological impact. By linking a large geo-referenced household survey with local-level immigration data, we examine the impact of rising inflows of migrants into...

How do barely incentivized norms impact incentive-rich environments? We take social enterprise legislation as a case in point. It establishes rules on behalf of constituencies that have no institutionalized means of enforcing them. By relying primarily on managers' other-regarding concerns...

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey (SOEP), this paper assesses the relationship between life satisfaction and religious practice. The main new result here is longitudinal. It is shown that individuals who become more religious over time record long term gains in life...

In economics there is presently an almost revolutionary development. The direct measurement of subjective welfare challenges traditional economics, inspires it, and opens new avenues for scientific research. The approaches and possibilities of an economic analysis of happiness are shown and...

In this paper, we examine students' attitudes towards various allocation mechanisms for a scarce resource. For this purpose, we have run a survey among officers of the German military who are enrolled in different courses of study (such as economics) at the University of the German Federal Armed...

The cost-share theorem and the related equilibrium structure of neoclassical economics are not consistent with thermodynamics and the process nature of energy conversion in wealth creation and technological evolution. In industrial economies energy's output elasticity is typically much larger...