We estimate the causal real economic effects of a randomized anticorruption crackdown on local governments in Brazil over the period 2003-2014. After anti-corruption audits, municipalities experience an increase in economic activity concentrated in sectors most dependent on government...

Dieser Bericht analysiert die wirtschaftlichen Folgen der Corona-Pandemie in der Schweiz mit Hilfe moderner Web-Scraping- und Text-Mining-Methoden, die auf Unternehmenswebseiten angewendet werden, zusammen mit Umfragedaten und nationalen Statistiken. In diesem Bericht untersuchen wir Art und...

Using a structural life-cycle model and data on school visits from Safegraph and school closures from Burbio, we quantify the heterogeneous impact of school closures during the Corona crisis on children affected at different ages and coming from households with different parental...

Das deutsche Staatswesen und seine Verwaltung zeigen sich den aktuellen Herausforderungen nicht mehr in dem Umfang gewachsen, wie es Bürger und Wirtschaft erwarten. Entscheidungsprozesse im föderalen Bundesstaat sind oft sehr langwierig, und einmal getroffene Entscheidungen von Bund und...

This paper maps out the trade relationship in goods between the two largest trading blocs in the global economy - the EU and US. We use detailed product category information to provide an in-depth description of current trade flows between the two markets, with a particular focus on how Irish-US...

In this paper, we use new survey data on the Irish SME population to trace out the impact of the pandemic on firms' revenues, their capacity to adjust their cost base and their usage of policy supports. Between March and October 2020 over 70 per cent of firms experienced some fall in turnover...

A DSGE (Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium) model is used to report the empirical behavior of the Argentine economy during the administration of the Cambiemos government coalition. Two main aspects have been taken into account: on the one hand, the debate on the economic policy of the...