Die Corona-Krise stellt sich aus makroökonomischer Sicht als tiefe globale Rezession dar. Ein Konjunkturpaket ist erforderlich, um eine schnelle Überwindung des Wirtschaftseinbruchs zu ermöglichen. Aus klimapolitischer Sicht besteht die Gefahr, dass erstens konjunkturelle Maßnahmen bislang...

This paper investigates the role of family firms in the fall of the labor share and rise in corporate saving in Germany from 1993 to 2019. Combining a new Family Ownership and Governance (FOG) database with financial data, we analyze 929 publicly listed firms. Our findings show that firm-level...

Dieser Beitrag untersucht die strukturellen Schwächen ökonomischer Wissenstests hinsichtlich ihrer oft implizit normativen und politisch einseitigen Grundannahmen. Es wird die Frage nach der Objektivität ökonomischen Wissens gestellt und hinterfragt, inwiefern Wissenstests ideologisch...

We analyse the decline of household saving rates in the bottom half of the income distribution in Germany since the 2000s, which allowed for only moderately increasing consumption inequality, despite sharply rising income inequality. We combine survey data on household consumption with our own...

We analyse the decline of household saving rates in the bottom half of the income distribution in Germany since the 2000s, which allowed for only moderately increasing consumption inequality, despite sharply rising income inequality. We combine survey data on household consumption with our own...

We review post-Keynesian assessments of the macroeconomic demand and growth impacts of financialisation. First, we examine the channels of influence of financialisation on distribution and on the different components of private aggregate demand, i.e. investment, consumption and net exports....

We conduct a survey to test for concerns about relative standing based on a large sample of the German population. Our survey approach asks respondents to choose between two hypothetical states of the world, in which they receive either a larger relative endowment or a larger absolute endowment...

In this paper, we analyze how corporate sector behavior has affected national current account balances in a sample of 25 countries for the period 1980-2015. A consistent finding is that an increase (decrease) in corporate net lending leads to an increase (decrease) in the current account,...

We ask why working hours in the rich world have not declined more sharply or even risen at times since the early 1980s, despite a steady increase in productivity, and why they vary so much across rich countries. We use an internationally comparable database on working hours (Bick et al., 2019)...