This paper empirically analyzes the joint impact of democracy and press freedom on corruption. Based in the theoretical literature, we argue that both institutional features are complements rather than substitutes in controlling corruption. Our regressions are based on a cross section of 170...

We study the effect of international trade and freeness of trade (openness) on interregional inequality within countries. We estimate a model derived from a structural economic-geography approach in which interregional inequality depends on weighted trade shares and trade costs. In addition to...

Christian Leßmann und Arne Steinkraus, Technische Universität Braunschweig, zeigen, dass die Technologie des CCS durch das gezielte Abscheiden von Kohlendioxid aus Kraftwerksabgasen und die anschließende unterirdische Speicherung desselben, trotz hoher Kosten, dazu beitragen kann, die...

Antje-Mareike Dietrich, Christian Leßmann und Arne Steinkraus, Technische Universität Braunschweig, kommen bei ihrer Beurteilung der Subvention für Elektroautos zu dem Ergebnis, dass die Einführung der Kaufprämie kein geeignetes Mittel ist, um die Klimabilanz des Verkehrssektors im Sinne...

We study the effect of international trade and freeness of trade on interregional inequality within countries. While most studies focus on single countries and only some use a small panel of countries, we use the two largest databases available to examine these issues. One database is provided...

We study the effect of spatial inequality on economic activity. Given that the relationship is highly simultaneous in nature, we use exogenous variation in geographic features to construct an instrument for spatial inequality, which is independent from any man-made factors. Inequality measures...