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...

Wettbewerb spielt in den verschiedenen Phasen einer akademischen Karriere eine Rolle. Er fängt schon im Kindergarten an und hört nach der Pensionierung nicht auf, ist jedoch im Bemühen um die erste Professur auf Lebenszeit am größten. Neben der Wettbewerbsintensität ändern sich auch die...

There is widespread emporiophobia (fear of markets) and this has important policy implications as it leads voters to demand anti-market policies. There are many reasons for this anti-market attitude. However, economists could reduce emporiophobia if we stressed cooperation rather than...

This paper provides, after a contextualizing introduction, the first-time translation of Walter Eucken’s presentation during the first session of the founding meeting of the Mont Pèlerin Society, April 1-10, 1947. Eucken was the only scholar based in Germany to attend the conference and took...