The European Commission actively evaluates occupational entry restrictions in all member states. This has attracted a growing interest among scholars of the German crafts sector as it is governed by an idiosyncratic national set of rules. We estimate the effects of the deregulation of the German...

Der vorliegende Forschungsbericht untersucht den Einfluss der regionalen Unternehmensgrößenstruktur auf die Resilienz von europäischen Regionen in den Jahren der Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise 2008/2009. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass im Durchschnitt Europas – zumindest in der untersuchten...

Difference-in-difference estimation is a popular tool to gauge the effects of economic policies. In recent years, many papers have applied this tool to the German deregulation of the crafts sector in 2004 to draw lessons regarding the economic effects of occupational licensing. However, a...