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The political economy of renewable energy policies in Germany and the EU
Strunz, Sebastian; Gawel, Erik; Lehmann, Paul - 2015
differentiation and decentralized decision-making across Member States, can be traced back to politicians' need to balance a variety …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011284941
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How politics influence state-owned banks : the case of German savings banks
Vins, Oliver (contributor) - 2008
This paper is one of the first to analyse political influence on state-owned savings banks in a developed country with an established financial market: Germany. Combining a large dataset with financial and operating figures of all 457 German savings banks from 1994 to 2006 and information on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003784002
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Policy Advice as an Investment Problem
Heine, Klaus - 2018
From the viewpoint of Public Choice theory, the logic of electoral competition makes it difficult for rational, self …-interested politicians to advance unpopular reforms. As political decision-makers have primarily the aim of re-election in mind …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929059
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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions : empirical studies in public economics and political economy
Dorn, Florian - 2021
Florian Dorn erstellte diesen Beitrag während seines Promotionsstudiums an der Universität München (LMU). Die Studie wurde im September 2020 abgeschlossen und von der Fakultät für Volkswirtschaftslehre als Dissertation angenommen. Die Dissertation trägt zur Empirie der Ökonomie des...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012807266
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Political competition and legislative shirking in roll-call votes : evidence from Germany for 1953-2017
Frank, Marco; Stadelmann, David - 2020
We analyze the impact of elected competitors from the same constituency on legislative shirking in the German Bundestag from 1953 to 2017. The German electoral system ensures that there is always at least one federal legislator per constituency with a varying number of elected competitors from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012301926
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Political fragmentation and fiscal policy : evidence from German municipalities
Bernard, René - 2017
The government fragmentation hypothesis (GFH) states that coalition governments spend more than single-party governments due to an underlying common pool problem. Using a large panel data set on 604 local governments in the German state of Baden-Württemberg for the 1994-2014 period, I test the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011730078
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A PUSH TO GEORGE ( IN ) BUSH
DR.VSR.SUBRAMANIAM - EconWPA - 2005
. Even the currencies of poor nations are galloping upward in $ parity, because they are linked to Euro. This is due to USA …'s approach to control other nations in the world,through unilateral Army power,tie up of domestic markets towards USA, and … Pumping wealth from developed nations. A Notional Balance sheet of USA, balances only with a Loss to the Assets(Debit). This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556940
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The Political Economy of Mitigation and Adaptation
Habla, Wolfgang - 2016
In this paper, we acknowledge that the mitigation of and adaptation to climate change have differential fiscal impacts. Whereas mitigation typically raises fiscal revenues, adaptation is costly to the taxpayer and to a greater extent the more distortionary the tax system is. In an OLG model with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997332
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Do politicians shirk when reelection is certain? : evidence from the German parliament
Bernecker, Andreas - 2013 - This version: July 2013
Does stiffer electoral competition reduce political rent-seeking behavior? For a microanalysis of this question, I construct a new data set spanning the years 2005 to 2012 covering biographical and political information of German members of parliament (MPs) and including attendance rates in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490268
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Regional deprivation and populism : evidence from Germany and the U.S.
Bayerlein, Michael - 2022
A widely held view is that increasing globalisation and inequality are fostering support for populist actors. Surprisingly, when focusing on Germany and the U.S., populist voting is highest in less globalised regions with rather equal income distributions. Addressing this puzzle, I ask how the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013336271