The prevailing socio-economic disparities within numerous European nations are becoming increasingly pro-nounced. However, our understanding of their social and political implications, particularly with respect to the rise of populism and the sentiment of being 'left behind', remains limited....

The prevailing socio-economic disparities within numerous European nations are becoming increasingly pro-nounced. However, our understanding of their social and political implications, particularly with respect to the rise of populism and the sentiment of being ‘left behind’, remains...

In this short paper we review the intellectual history of indirect inference as a methodology in its progress from an informal method for evaluating early models of representative agents to formally testing DSGE models of the economy; and we have considered the issues that can arise in carrying...

We develop a method to identify the individual latent propensity to select into treatment and marginal treatment effects. Identification is achieved with survey data on individuals' subjective expectations of their treatment propensity and of their treatmentcontingent outcomes. We use the method...

Ausgehend von den Krisen unserer Zeit und dem normativen Bekenntnis zu einer transformativen Ökonomik erläutert das Diskussionspapier die These: "Gestaltung braucht Kreativität". Die gegenwärtige dominante Praxis der Volkswirtschaftslehre wird dahingehend kritisiert, dass sie...

Good data on the size and composition of the independent contractor workforce are elusive, with household survey and administrative tax data often disagreeing on levels and trends. We carried out a series of focus groups to learn how self-employed independent contractors speak about their work....