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Studies on Issues in Political Economy since the Global Financial Crisis

Jäger, Kai - 2016

The dissertation includes four studies broadly connected to the causes and consequences of the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-8 from a political economy perspective. Following the intro-duction, Chapter 2 analyzes the political roots of massive foreign reserves accumulation, which has...

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Business investment in EU countries

Bańbura, Marta; Albani, Maria; Ambrocio, Gene; … - 2018

The article analyses recent developments in business investment for a large group of EU countries, using a broad set of analytical tools and data sources. We find that the assessment of whether or not investment is currently low varies across benchmarks and countries. At the euro area level and...

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Key factors behind productivity trends in EU countries

2021

The aim of this report is to foster a better understanding of past trends in, and drivers of, productivity growth in the countries of the European Union (EU) and of the interplay between productivity and monetary policy. To this end, a group of experts from 15 national central banks and the...

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Essays on the Integration of New Energy Sources into Existing Energy Systems

Röpke, Luise - 2015

This volume was prepared by Luise Röpke while she was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes three self-contained chapters about aspects of the integration of new...

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Die AfD: Eine unterschätzte Partei. Soziale Erwünschtheit als Erklärung für fehlerhafte Prognosen

Bergmann, Knut; Diermeier, Matthias - 2017

Brexit, Trump und die AfD - eine Reihe von Abstimmungs- und Wahlergebnissen konnten Meinungsforscher in der jüngeren Vergangenheit nur schlecht vorhersagen. Der vorliegende Beitrag diskutiert diese Problematik am Beispiel der in Deutschland erstarkten rechtspopulistischen AfD: Da diese von der...

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Machtverteilung nach Wahlen: Eine spieltheoretische Analyse der Wahlergebnisse in Schleswig-Holstein und Nordrhein-Westfalen

Rusche, Christian - 2017

Die bisherigen Regierungen in Schleswig-Holstein und Nordrhein-Westfalen bekamen bei den Landtagswahlen am 7. beziehungsweise 14. Mai 2017 keine Mehrheit mehr. In beiden Fällen sind rechnerisch mehrere Koalitionen möglich. Dennoch erlaubt es die kooperative Spieltheorie bereits jetzt,...

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Wahlbeteiligung in Europa

Kolev, Galina V. - 2019

Am 25. und 26. Mai ist Europa-Wahl. Wenn sich die Tendenz aus den letzten vier Jahrzehnten fortsetzt, wird die Mehrheit der Wahlberechtigten aller Voraussicht nach nicht die Wahlurne aufsuchen und stattdessen darauf verzichten, die Zukunft Europas mitzugestalten. Die Gründe dafür sind...

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The Role of Information for Public Preferences on Education - Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Werner, Katharina - 2019

The aim of this doctoral project is an empirical analysis of questions concerning economics of education, in particular education policy. The first key aspect is the relationship between public opinion and the level of information of the population. As part of this, a first research project...

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Democratic support and corruption: Lessons from East Europe

Enste, Dominik; Acht, Martin - 2018

quality of other institutions and especially corruption play a role in shaping the support for democracy and whether the … experiences of corruption in these states undermine the support for democracy. Specifically, that democracy and corruption are … complementary institutions. Only in the absence of corruption can the experience of democracy have its full effect on prodemocratic …

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(Mis-)information technology: Internet use and perception of democracy in Africa

Cariolle, Joël; Elkhateeb, Yasmine; Maurel, Mathilde - 2023

The Internet has significantly expanded worldwide, changing our relationship with the world, and the way we communicate, educate, and inform ourselves. Africa, despite having a very low number of fixed-broadband subscriptions for 100 inhabitants, has not escaped the Internet phenomenon, as the...

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