Governments around the world increasingly use nudges to improve tax collection. Our meta-analysis evaluates the evidence gained from around 70 recent randomized trials. We find that simple reminders, tax morale, and deterrence nudges all increase tax compliance. The effectiveness of these...

Low market integration is a major barrier to European competitiveness in the digital economy. International collaboration of knowledge workers could help to harness market size advantage. Data from the largest coding platform reveals digital collaboration in Europe drops by 16.4 percent at...

The debate on phasing out internal combustion engines (ICE) has resurfaced in Germany amid an economic downturn; whether this is smart appears questionable. To monitor in real time where the industry is headed, analyzing job postings provides reliable insights into the ongoing strategic shifts...

The idea behind the BRICS began as a pure economic concept to acknowledge the growing weight of some major emerging economies. However, when it became a reality, it has evolved into a highly political - and less economic - concept. The BRICS, which has been expanded recently to BRICS+, has...

The original BRICS grouping of five was not a multilateral security alliance like NATO, and neither does the recent expansion of BRICS resemble the expansion of NATO. The members of the expanded BRICS are divided between those that are largely hostile toward the West in general and the US in...

India has become a key player in services, and critical in pharma and food security in the Global South. India is setting course to be a manufacturing hub with a mix of targeted subsidies and trade integration. First successes are visible: India now exports more machinery and the quality of its...

Mentoring programs can strongly improve the transition from school to work for disadvantaged adolescents. Results from our field experiment indicate that a German mentoring program markedly boosts school achievement, patience, and labor-market orientation of students from highly disadvantaged...

Russia's attack on Ukraine has revealed the need to reassess Europe's security. Currently, the European Union is a politically fragmented and divided union of member states, economically underperforming, with a defense capability that is insufficient without the support of the USA. The European...

We present a novel approach to assess the effect of EU cohesion policy on economic activity. Project-level data on EU funding is combined with nighttime light emissions data. Higher EU funding is associated with increased economic activity at the municipal level. Remote sensing data can provide...