Severe recessions and financial crises are frequent. Their effect on the economy is persistent and often exceeds initial projections. They can also be a strong driver of widening inequality. Therefore it is important that measures be taken to minimise the risk of such events while strengthening...

In this paper we explore three claims concerning the disciplinary character of economics by means of citation analysis. The three claims under study are: (1) economics exhibits strong forms of intellectual stratification and, as a byproduct, a rather pronounced internal hierarchy, (2) economists...

Der Beitrag befasst sich mit dem sozialen Wandel des Konsumentenverhaltens in den letzten 20 Jahren. Hierfür wird in einem ersten Schritt die Rolle des Konsumenten idealtypisch konzipiert. In einem zweiten Schritt wird das Phänomen des Prosuming herausgegriffen, um daran zu prüfen, welche...

Donald Trump won the election in 2016 largely because enough voters in three states, all in the Rustbelt, who had voted for Barack Obama in both 2008 and 2012, switched their vote from Democratic to Republican. Economic dislocations played a crucial role in these swing states or democratic...

Seit 2006 können die Bundesländer den Steuersatz der Grunderwerbsteuer frei wählen. Dies hat zu einer starken Erhöhung der Steuersätze in den meisten Bundesländern und somit zu einer Verteuerung des Eigentumerwerbs sowie einer Erschwerung der Bildung von Wohneigentum geführt. Zudem werden...

The study tests the cardinal utility maximization hypothesis by an experimental procedure in a framework of utility scaling approach following the psychophysical-econometric paradigm, conceived in He (Psychophysical Interpretation for Utility Measures, 2011). It reveals (i) the utility...

Given the relatively low computational effort involved, vector autoregressive (VAR)models are frequently used for macroeconomic forecasting purposes. However, the usuallylimited number of observations obliges the researcher to focus on a relatively smallset of key variables, possibly discarding...

Research rankings based on publications and citations today dominate governance of academia. Yet they have unintended side effects on individual scholars and academic institutions and can be counterproductive. They induce a substitution of the taste for science by a taste for publication. We...