Deutschland (AfD), the major anti-immigrant party in the 2017 German parliamentary election. The classic theory on the political … jobs, housing and public goods. Notably, the vote distribution in the 2017 election suggests that AfD vote shares are … higher in districts with fewer foreign inhabitants. We exploit administrative data on election results and district …

an event-study approach which links election information shocks provided by official results of state-level elections in … Germany and the individual disposition to report an AfD preference. Exploiting quasi-random variation in survey interviews … conducted closely around state elections, we show that individual exposure to positive election information shocks significantly …

Drawing on panel data from six elections between 1998 and 2017 in Germany, we estimate the causal effect of immigration … – described by Germany’s interior minister as the "mother of all political problems" – on electoral support for the far right and … seekers, who are administratively allocated across Germany according to pre-defined quotas. We find that the presence of …

The tax burden of real estate transactions in Germany increased considerably since the constitutional reform in 2006 …