Steht der deutschen Wirtschaft eine Rezession bevor? Das ist eine Frage, die momentan häufig in den Medien diskutiert wird. Doch was ist überhaupt eine Rezession? Dies ist nicht zuletzt eine Frage der Definition, die in der wissenschaftlichen Literatur und auch in der Praxis leider nicht...

Steht der deutschen Wirtschaft eine Rezession bevor? Das ist eine Frage, die momentan häufig in den Medien diskutiert wird. Doch was ist überhaupt eine Rezession? Dies ist nicht zuletzt eine Frage der Definition, die in der wissenschaftlichen Literatur und auch in der Praxis leider nicht...

While economists have tended to focus on specific public policies when developing recommendations, the achievement of welfare objectives might depend more on the quality of policies than their content. This paper develops several measures of the qualities of policies across countries, arguing...

While economists have tended to focus on specific public policies when developing recommendations, the achievement of welfare objectives might depend more on the quality of policies than their content. This paper develops several measures of the qualities of policies across countries, arguing...

This note replicates the analysis of Tabellini (2010) on the relationship between social capital and regional economic growth in Europe, extending that work and the underlying dataset by focusing on the spatial dimension of social capital and introducing a definition of contiguity among European...

This paper reconsiders the theoretical foundations of EU regional policy in economics. It begins with a discussion of the line of thought of its prevalent explanation in equilibrium economics which is focusing on market failures as its key underpinning and which is the major toolkit of...

We analyze motivations for, and possible alternatives to, the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP). With regard to the former, we identify domestic policy failures and various cross-country spillover effects; with regard to the latter, we contrast an economic-theory perspective on optimal corrective...