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On the Extent of Strategic Voting
Spenkuch, Jörg - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
made it very difficult to document strategic behavior empirically. Exploiting the incentive structure of Germany's voting … system to solve the fundamental identification problem, this paper estimates the extent of strategic voting in large, real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109723
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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions: Empirical studies in public economics and political economy
Dorn, Florian - 2021
inequality, institutions, and economic and infrastructure policies can influence welfare and political stability. Chapter 2 … development. Chapters 5 and 6 contribute to the debate on the effect of political and fiscal institutions on budgeting …, accountability, and government efficiency. Empirical identification strategies, endogeneity problems, and remaining caveats regarding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013164116
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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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Feeling secure vs. being secure? : qualitative evidence on the relationship between labour market institutions and employees' perceived job security from Germany and the U.S.
Hipp, Lena - 2019
How can labour market institutions make workers confident about their economic future? While quantitative studies have … security, these studies did not explain how these institutions affect workers' perceptions and expectations. This study seeks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140355
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Offsetting versus mitigation activities to reduce CO 2 emissions : a theoretical and empirical analysis for the US and Germany
Lange, Andreas; Ziegler, Andreas - 2012
This paper studies the voluntary provision of public goods that is partially driven by a desire to offset for individual polluting activities. We first extend existing theory and show that offsets allow a reduction in effective environmental pollution levels while not necessarily extending the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009552907
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Terrorism and voting : the rise of right-wing populism in Germany
Sabet, Navid; Liebald, Marius; Friebel, Guido - 2023
Can right-wing terrorism increase support for far-right populist parties, and if so, why? Exploiting quasi-random variation between successful and failed attacks across German municipalities, we find that successful attacks lead to significant increases in the vote share for the right-wing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014364725
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What drives academic data sharing?
Fecher, Benedikt; Friesike, Sascha; Hebing, Marcel - 2014
Despite widespread support from policy makers, funding agencies, and scientific journals, academic researchers rarely make their research data available to others. At the same time, data sharing in research is attributed a vast potential for scientific progress. It allows the reproducibility of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010355277
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Unlocking further potential in the National Cohort study (NaKo) through comparability with the German Socio-Economic Panel
Kröger, Hannes; Schupp, Jürgen; Behrens, Johann - 2014
Background: The National Cohort (Nationale Kohorte = NaKo ) will be one of the largest cohort studies in Europe to include intensive physical examinations and extensive information about the socio-demographic background and behavior of the subjects. However, regional selectivity of the study and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010345154
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Der systematische Ort der Zivilgesellschaft : Welche Rolle weist eine ökonomische Theorie der Moral zivilgesellschaftlichen Organisationen in der modernen Gesellschaft zu?
Pies, Ingo; Hielscher, Stefan - 2008
Dieser Beitrag bestimmt den systematischen Ort der Zivilgesellschaft aus der Perspektive einer ökonomischen Theorie der Moral: Zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen können als "Corporate Citizens" durch genuine Eigenbeiträge an einer gesellschaftlichen Zusammenarbeit zum wechselseitigen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011758133
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Infrastructure, institutions and identity - Determinants of regional development: Empirical evidence from Germany
Gäbler, Stefanie - 2020
expansion. Chapters 4 and 5 examine institutions at the local level, namely local public accounting standards and local election …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012484751