This paper estimates the effect of political power on tax policies in municipal councils under a proportional election system. The main challenge in estimating the causal effect of parties on policy is to isolate the effect of power from underlying voter preferences and the selection effect of...

Luisa Dörr prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for Public Finance and Political Economy. The study was completed in February 2022 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of three distinct empirical essays...

What is meant by entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth is often not clear or very idiosyncratic. This paper starts with a discussion of the nature of entrepreneurship and its relation to innovation. The second section provides an overview of theory and empirical research on the...

Die vorliegende Studie identifiziert anhand von vier internationalen Good-Practice Beispielen innovative Ansatzpunkte für die Mittelstandspolitik. Die dargestellten Maßnahmen beziehen sich auf die traditionelle Mittelstandspolitik, wie die Verankerung einer Kultur der Selbstständigkeit...

What is meant by entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth is often not clear or very idiosyncratic. This paper starts with a discussion of the nature of entrepreneurship and its relation to innovation. The second section provides an overview of theory and empirical research on the...

What is meant by entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth is often not clear or very idiosyncratic. This paper starts with a discussion of the nature of entrepreneurship and its relation to innovation. The second section provides an overview of theory and empirical research on the...

Die vorliegende Studie identifiziert anhand von vier internationalen Good-Practice Beispielen innovative Ansatzpunkte für die Mittelstandspolitik. Die dargestellten Maßnahmen beziehen sich auf die traditionelle Mittelstandspolitik, wie die Verankerung einer Kultur der Selbstständigkeit...

What is meant by entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth is often not clear or very idiosyncratic. This paper starts with a discussion of the nature of entrepreneurship and its relation to innovation. The second section provides an overview of theory and empirical research on the...