Das Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Fakultät Staatswissenschaften) legt hiermit seinen neunzehnten eigenständigen Forschungsbericht vor. Wir möchten mit unserem Bericht alle Interessenten an unserer wissenschaftlichen Arbeit in kompakter Form über die...

D. Acemoğglu, S. Johnson und J. Robinson erhielten 2024 den Nobelpreis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften für ihre Forschung zu den Auswirkungen von Institutionen auf den Wohlstand von Nationen. Sie erweiterten die klassische Wirtschaftstheorie um die institutionelle und politökonomische...

In den letzten Monaten sind zahlreiche Nutzer/innen von X (ehemals Twitter) zu Bluesky gewechselt oder nutzen inzwischen beide Plattformen parallel. So meldeten sich bspw. Politiker/innen wie die Bundesaußenministerin Annalena Baerbock oder Marie Agnes Strack- Zimmermann sowie diverse...

This paper examines the data sources and methodologies used in economic research on corruption by analyzing 339 journal articles published in 2022 that include Journal of Economic Literature codes. The paper identifies the most commonly used data types, sources, and geographical foci, as well as...

This work offers the first comprehensive comparison between the philosophy of Adam Smith and that of his successor, Thomas Reid. It looks at Reid's and Smith's remarkably similar accounts of human perception and judgement, and at their different moral and economic theories. In this way, this...

On the 300th anniversary of his birth, one thing can be said about Adam Smith: entire libraries (real and digital) have been filled with analyses of his thought. This trend does not seem to be on the verge of ending soon. Everybody hopes to uncover the "real Smith." This article has a more...

"The data from text digitization show that "liberal" acquired a sustained political signification for the first time around 1769: the liberal policy principles of Adam Smith and his associates. The bodies of evidence include: (1) the non-occurrence in English prior to 1769 (with a few...

This contribution reviews key developments in Kaleckian economics after Kalecki, with a focus on its application to mature capitalist economies. Rather than revisiting interpretations of Kalecki's original work, the contribution highlights subsequent theoretical and empirical extensions. It...

Replications are widely recognized as essential to the self-correcting nature of science. Interest in replication studies has grown markedly in both economics and psychology over the past decade. Nevertheless, they still represent a very small share of total publications. We discuss why most...

Are estimates typically closer to the true parameter value when those estimates are published in highly-ranked economics journals? Using 14,387 published estimates from 24 large literatures, we find that, within literatures, the mean and variance of parameter estimates have little or no...

This paper contrasts two kinds of political economy, represented by welfare economics and social choice theory on the one hand and James M. Buchanan's constitutional political economy on the other hand. It posits that the difference between the two kinds has its roots in the different normative...

In February 2025, the European Commission published a communication, under the title 'The road to the next MFF', in which it announced plans for 'a simpler, more focused and more impactful budget' - and through which it launched preparations for the EU's next seven-year budget, or multiannual...

D. Acemoğlu, S. Johnson und J. Robinson erhielten 2024 den Nobelpreis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften für ihre Forschung zu den Auswirkungen von Institutionen auf den Wohlstand von Nationen. Sie erweiterten die klassische Wirtschaftstheorie um die institutionelle und politökonomische...

This study contributes to the growing debate over the narrow ideological discourse in economics education and calls for greater pluralism. Using a randomized controlled experiment with 2,735 economics students from 10 countries, we examine how authority and ideological biases - shaped by...

Das Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Fakultät Staatswissenschaften) legt hiermit seinen neunzehnten eigenständigen Forschungsbericht vor. Wir möchten mit unserem Bericht alle Interessenten an unserer wissenschaftlichen Arbeit in kompakter Form über die...

We provide a critical analysis of the adoption of the US "top-five model" by European economics academia. This model prioritizes publications in five elite journals, heavily influencing the career trajectories of doctoral students and researchers. It highlights the inefficiencies and social...

We investigate whether artificial intelligence can address the peer review crisis in economics by analyzing 27,090 evaluations of 9,030 unique submissions using a large language model (LLM). The experiment systematically varies author characteristics (e.g., affiliation, reputation, gender) and...

This article identifies the two approaches to defining a book review. The first defines a book review as a text published in the 'Book Reviews' section of a journal. The second approach involves specifying criteria that a text must satisfy to qualify as a book review and assessing whether a...

We investigate gender differences in the time taken to accept empirical articles. On average, female-authored economics articles take notably longer to accept. Acceptance delay is nine weeks longer when solo-authored and five weeks longer for all female teams. This gender gap cannot be...

Contemporary societies face a persistent polycrisis in which socioeconomic, ecological, technological, and geopolitical challenges intersect and reinforce each other. This volatility exposes the limitations of linear, mono-paradigmatic responses and places new demands on the production and...

Aus Anlass des 80. Geburtstags des Buchs "Der Weg zur Knechtschaft" von F. A. Hayek haben Veronika Grimm, Stefan Kolev und Jens Weidmann auf dessen Kernbotschaften aufmerksam gemacht. Dabei relativieren sie den Ideologievorwurf, der dem Buch gemacht wird, indem sie in Frageform evidenzbasierte...

This article explores J. A. Hobson's writings on religion. Hobson had an economic methodology focused on an organic view of society, treating it like a living being. Imperialism, promoted by the government, the press, and religion acts like a parasitic ideology, infecting all parts of society,...