This paper studies how comparative advantage and the political elites' endowments shape long-run performance in an economy with imperfect political institutions. In a capital-scarce economy, an autocrat catering to the needs of landowners favours openness to trade at an early stage of...

We analyze the allocation of talent across teams in large matching markets with competition for rank. We show that under general conditions globalization in the form of a convex transformation of payoffs promotes the concentration of talent, i.e. it makes positive assortative matching more...

A reasonable future for Europe can only be achieved if two essential elements are fulfilled: Firstly, newly established institutions must be democratic and have strong support from citizens rather than from national governments. Secondly, the large number of different ethnic, cultural,...

This paper uses the 2013 World Value Survey, as well as the 2016 and 2018 waves of the Arab Barometer, to analyze the dynamics of trust in public institutions in Lebanon. It finds strong evidence that confidence in most public institutions has decreased between 2013 and 2016. The evidence of...

Der Beitrag zeigt, wie der Gemeinsinn vom bloßen Lückenbüßer in Krisenzeiten zum dynamischen Fundament unserer Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft avancieren kann. Dafür entwickelt und visualisiert die Autorin ein neues Erkenntnisparadigma, das verkrustete ökonomische Denk- und Handlungsweisen...

Der ökonomische Imperialismus kann als ein Programm des epistemischen Reframings aller menschlichen Lebensbereiche begriffen werden. Diese Entgrenzung erreicht er über eine vollständige Abstraktion von spezifischen gelebten Erfahrungen und die Reformulierung dieser Erfahrung durch die...

In this paper, we examine the performance of the market mechanism by focusing on whether no one, in the "long-run", can be left behind with technological innovation in the economy. We show that the market mechanism with technological innovation unavoidably leaves some individuals behind. We...

The economic consequences of the war could potentially be used to postpone climate policy, energy saving and the shift to renewable energy. This includes investments in atomic energy – perhaps in smaller plants – as there is still no satisfactory solution for the storage of nuclear waste.

After being dormant for decades, in the last two decades, right-wing populism resurfaced strongly in Europe and the US channeling a reaction against globalization. This resurgence has prompted economists to pay increasing attention to populist economics. Current versions of right wing populism...

Before Hugo Chavez burst into the political scene in Venezuela, Argentina's Juan Peron (1895- 1974) was considered the quintessential Latin American populist leader. He ruled Argentina from mid 1943 until September 1955 and between 1973 and 1974 and his political party has been in power two...