The UN's Sustainable Development Goals in their generalized form need to be further reflected in order to identify synergies and trade-offs between their (sub-)targets, and to apply them to concrete nations and regions. Explorative, qualitative cause and effect modeling could serve as a tool for...

Angst, Sorge und Tod sind die verdeckten Existenzial der Pandemie. Für die Angstund die Sorge sind die Gastwirte und Händler zuständig, deren Existenzenökonomisch bedroht sind. Und die Künstler. Für den Tod sind die Krankenhäuserzuständig, die in hohem Einsatz doch aber kaum die...

Using life satisfaction as a direct measure of individual utility has become popular in the empirical economic literature. In this context, it is crucial to know what circumstances or changes the measure is sensitive to. Is life satisfaction a volatile concept that is affected by minor changes...

This paper provides insights into the apparent seesaw between the generation of theoretical versus empirical economics research over time. A dynamic model considers the incentives of researchers to focus on empirical versus theoretical papers. It yields the main characteristics of the...