Die Studie untersucht aktuelle Wohnortpräferenzen in der deutschen Bevölkerung und wie diese durch die Corona-Pandemie beeinflusst werden. Eine Umfrage unter 18 000 Menschen in urbanen, suburbanen und ruralen Gebieten zeigt, dass knapp 13% der Befragten aus den deutschen Großstädten plant,...

Der Beitrag stellt die Ergebnisse eines incentivierten Umfrageexperiments, das in neun EU-Mitgliedstaaten durchgeführt wurde, vor. Es wird aufgezeigt, wie das Priming gemeinsamer wirtschaftlicher Interessen, einer geteilten Identität und der Corona Pandemie die Ausprägung von Altruismus,...

This paper develops a decomposition framework to study the importance of different stabilization channels of an unemployment re-insurance scheme for the euro area. Running counterfactual simulations based on household micro data for the period 2000–16, the paper finds that the re-insurance...

We analyze to which extent social inequality aversion differs across nations when control- ling for actual country differences in labor supply responses. Towards this aim, we estimate labor supply elasticities at both extensive and intensive margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same...

Whether observed differences in redistributive policies across countries are the result of differences in social preferences or efficiency constraints is an important question that paves the debate about the optimality of welfare regimes. To shed new light on this question, we estimate labor...

We analyze the effectiveness of fiscal policy in general and automatic stabilizers in particular to stabilize output in Eurozone member states under the current institutional framework of fiscal governance. First, a descriptive analysis based on macro data is conducted for the period 2007-2014,...

This contribution develops a blueprint for a European fiscal union. The proposal addresses the shortcomings of most other reform designs which do not offer a solution for insolvent or noncooperative euro countries. We suggest a design which combines fiscal insurance with an orderly procedure to...

We analyze different options for the design of a common unemployment insurance system for the euro area (EA). We assess their effectiveness to act as an insurance device in the presence of asymmetric macroeconomic shocks. Running counterfactual simulations based on micro data for the period...

The 2008-09 crisis has shown that some euro area member countries were unable to sufficiently stabilize their economies which has given rise to a debate about deeper fiscal integration in Europe. In this paper, we analyze the redistributive and stabilizing effects of two scenarios of fiscal...