Protection against criminality is a traditional function of government. Where government fails, however, people often turn to the private sector. That is why there are three times as many private security guards as public police. The need for private security is greatest for low-income families,...

We argue that the analysis of multiple political connections in an event study framework can improve the study of institutional change. Based on a unique dataset of multiple political relationships of 4,936 South Korean board of director members, we show that the large business conglomerates,...

Machine-coded event datasets have become popular in conflict research. I argue that systematic media biases render news-based event data unsuitable for studying anti-government networks of insurgents and political parties. Insurgent networks are too secretive to be captured by media reports,...

Many scholars believe that the proliferation of large-scale datasets will spur scientific advancement and help us to predict the future using sophisticated statistical techniques. Indeed, a team of researchers achieved astonishing success using the world's largest event dataset, produced by the...

Empirical studies show that government ideology has hardly influenced welfare expenditures since the 1990s, casting doubt on the general ability of national governments to design economic policies according to their programmatic appeals. This study takes a comprehensive view on policy-making by...

Im Rahmen des Ökonomenpanels von ifo und FAZ werden seit Februar 2016 Professoren der Volkswirtschaftslehre an deutschen Universitäten zur gegenwärtigen Wirtschaftspolitik befragt. Ein Schwerpunktthema in der ersten Runde war die Asyl- und Zuwanderungspolitik.

In der zweiten Umfrage des Ökonomenpanels stand die mögliche Beschränkung von Bargeldzahlungen im Mittelpunkt. Eine Mehrheit der Umfrageteilnehmer spricht sich gegen eine Einschränkung von Bargeldzahlungen aus.

In der April-Umfrage des Ökonomenpanels von ifo und FAZ wurden Professoren für Volkswirtschaftslehre an deutschen Universitäten zur gegenwärtigen Ungleichheitsdebatte befragt. Eine absolute Mehrheit von 63% der Teilnehmer ist der Meinung, dass die Einkommensungleichheit in Deutschland seit...

The dissertation includes four studies broadly connected to the causes and consequences of the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-8 from a political economy perspective. Following the intro-duction, Chapter 2 analyzes the political roots of massive foreign reserves accumulation, which has...

The dissertation includes four studies broadly connected to the causes and consequences of the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-8 from a political economy perspective. Following the intro-duction, Chapter 2 analyzes the political roots of massive foreign reserves accumulation, which has...