Die Wiederherstellung der Vermögensteuer gehört zum Standardrepertoire linker Parteien. Damit soll eine vermeintliche Gerechtigkeitslücke geschlossen werden. Die Vermögensteuer ist jedoch weder ein gerechtes, noch ein effizientes Instrument der Steuer- und Verteilungspolitik.

Market power in economic theory is defined as deviations from marginal cost pricing, which results in unfair competition and welfare losses. In complex agri-food supply chains, the exercise of market power is a significant contributor to welfare losses, as multiple actors throughout the chain...

We study the post-war effects of the bombing of German cities during WWII on urban growth and use the synthetic control method (SCM) to construct comparison units for affected West-German cities. The reason to use SCM is that cities might experience structural changes that have nothing to do...

This paper presents a general framework for estimating the renovation and investment requirements associated with a green transformation of the residential sector that effectively reduces the net emissions of the residential sector (close) to zero. The framework takes ecological and...