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How do global political shocks influence individuals' expectations about economic outcomes? We run a unique survey on inflation expectations among 145 tenured economics professors in Germany and exploit the 2022 Russian invasion in Ukraine as a natural experiment to identify the effect of a...
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We examine how fiscal rules influence economic growth. The results show that constitutional fiscal rules promoted growth from the Industrial Revolution until World War II (1789-1950) and also increased modern economic growth (1985-2015). To address selection on unobservables, we conduct a...
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We examine how structural reforms relate to income inequality. We employ many indicators of structural reforms and use data for market and net income inequality. The dataset includes up to 135 countries since 1960. The results do not suggest that market-oriented structural reforms were...
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Do experts adjust their policy recommendations when the facts change? We conduct a large-scale randomized experiment among 1,224 economic experts across 109 countries that includes two treatments. The first treatment is the geographic and temporal variation in the initial spread of Covid-19...
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Scholars have been active in investigating causes and consequences of austerity policies. We examine how economists use the term “austerity” in scientific studies and measure austerity in empirical analyses. The sample includes around 3,500 journal articles published in the top 400 journals...
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We examine partisan bias in inflation expectations. Our dataset includes inflation expectations of the New York Fed's Survey of Consumer Expectations over the period June 2013 to June 2018. The results show that inflation expectations were 0.46 percentage points higher in Republican-dominated...
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Eine neue Studie des ifo Instituts zeigt, dass Steuererhöhungen in Industrieländern häufig direkt nach Wahlen vorgenommen wurden. Ausgewertet und in einen neuen Steuerreformindex aggregiert wurden 3 200 Steuerreformen, die in 22 Industrie- und Schwellenländern im Zeitraum 1960–2014...
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Viele Ökonominnen und Ökonomen sprechen sich für mehr Anstrengungen in der europäischen Klimapolitik aus. Das zeigen die Ergebnisse des 35. Ökonomenpanels von ifo und FAZ (Befragungszeitraum: 26. Juli bis 2. August 2021). Eine Ausweitung des EU-Emissionshandels auf die Sektoren Verkehr und...
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Im 36. Ökonomenpanel wurden Ökonominnen und Ökonomen vor der Bundestagswahl befragt, wie sich ihrer Meinung nach Wirtschaftswachstum, Arbeitslosigkeit, Staatsverschuldung, Einkommensungleichheit und CO2-Emissionen bis zum Ende der nächsten Legislaturperiode unter verschiedenen Koalitionen...
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