Trotz jahrzehntelanger Bemühungen zahlreicher Bundes- und Landesregierungen ist in Deutschland kein wirksamer nachhaltiger Bürokratieabbau gelungen. Vielmehr ist in den letzten Jahren eine deutliche Steigerung der Belastung von Unternehmen zu verzeichnen. Die Glaubwürdigkeit politischer...

In his comment on our replication of Ciacci (2024), Ciacci (2025b) again finds large and statistically significant treatment effects on rape from Sweden's ban on sex purchases. These estimates derive from overfitted control functions and incorrect clustering in the regression discontinuity in...

In the UK, more than four decades have passed since the introduction of neoliberal economic policies by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. This duration provides sufficient time to evaluate the impacts of these policies. A critical question now arises: how can the UK address the enormous...

The literature on policy-making in public health academia portrays the interests of many industries as being implacably opposed to the public interest. Suspicion of large, transnational corporations has evolved into disapproval of a wide range of 'commercial entities' who are depicted as the...

Being the European Green Capital makes citizens proud and spurs local action on environmental projects, making the city more attractive as a destination and a better place to live. The application process helps generate self-promotion and gives the opportunity to compare actions with other...

Central banking studies continues to consolidate around common foundations, but points of tension and disagreement persist. In this reply, I discuss three such points raised by contributors to this forum. These relate to the concept of infrastructural power, the significance of financial...

Auch wenn die Auswirkungen des demografischen Wandels auf die Sozialversicherungen bisher nur leicht spürbar sind, zeichnet sich das Ende der Schonfrist ab. Der Fachkräftemangel auf dem Arbeitsmarkt verschärft sich spürbar und die politische Diskussion über Maßnahmen zur Anwerbung von...

Hamilton (2018) argues that one should never use the Hodrick-Prescott (HP) filter to detrend economic time series and proposes an alternative approach. This comment reconsiders Hamilton's case against the HP filter, emphasizing two simple points. First, in the empirical example Hamilton...

We are pleased to note that the discussion paper we wrote ("How to change a constitution by handwaving") has attracted some interest from the public and observers of economic policy. Among the more thoughtful responses the paper has received is that from the Foundation for Economic Freedom...

Die in den letzten Jahren stark gestiegene Inflation beschäftigt nicht nur die Währungshüter, sondern beunruhigt auch Verbraucher:innen und Politik. Der Europäischen Zentralbank wird vorgeworfen, mit ihren Inflationsprognosen in den Jahren 2021 und 2022 die tatsächliche Entwicklung deutlich...

The quest to ensure that the tax planning activities (e.g., shifting profits through transfer mispricing) of multinational enterprises operating in Nigeria do not erode the country’s domestic base has led to the enactment and enforcement of the Transfer Pricing (TP) Regulation, 2018 in...

This is a critical review of what the Marxist scientific literature presents on the forms of countertendency to falling profit rates carried out during the COVID-19 pandemic. The 33 articles included in this review were studied using a Marxist approach. The following elements of the articles...

For years, regulators and competition watchdogs have expressed concern about competition in the digital advertising business. They note that digital advertising appears to be dominated by a few dominant firms, such as Google, Facebook, and—to a lesser extent—Amazon. Some claim that this...

Several recent works have sharply criticized public pension funds and labor union funds (“labor’s capital”). These critiques come from both the left and right. Leftists criticize labor’s capital for undermining worker interests by funding financialization and the growth of Wall Street....

Using data on the NBER working paper series, we show that the dissemination of economics research suffers from a congestion problem: An increase in the number of weekly released working papers on average reduces downloads, abstract views, and media attention for each paper. Subsequent publishing...

Does U.S. military aid make the United States safer? Or does it have unintended consequences for U.S. security? To answer these questions, we estimate the effect of U.S. military aid on anti-American terrorism for a sample of 174 countries between 1968 and 2018. We find that higher levels of aid...

I argue that meta-ignorance and meta-insensitivity are the key sources influencing the reoccurrence of the (un)conscious misrepresentation of marginalized groups in management and organization research; such misrepresentation, in effect, perpetuates epistemic neocolonialism. Meta-ignorance...

This note considers David Rodgers' argument against the relevance of the term "neoliberalism" on the grounds that it combines disparate phenomena perhaps more usefully treated separately—in particular, "market fundamentalism"; a model of financialized-globalized capitalism; "disaster...

This paper deals with the proposed use of sovereign credit ratings in the "Basel Accord on Capital Adequacy" (Basel II) and considers its potential effect on emerging markets financing. It investigates in a first attempt the consequences of the planned revisions on the two central aspects of...