Macro-level changes can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the household level. While it is possible to speculate about which groups are likely to be hardesthit, detailed distributional studies are still largely backward-looking. This paper suggests a straightforward...

In this paper, we examine students' attitudes towards various allocation mechanisms for a scarce resource. For this purpose, we have run a survey among officers of the German military who are enrolled in different courses of study (such as economics) at the University of the German Federal Armed...

Economists praise the efficiency of the price mechanism in allocating scarce resources. Others, however, often reject it as unfair. In this study, we investigate the extent to which economists also differ from non-economists in how they value the fairness of the price system, and examine how...

Macro-level changes can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the household level. While it is possible to speculate about which groups are likely to be hardesthit, detailed distributional studies are still largely backward-looking. This paper suggests a straightforward...

The distributional consequences of the recent economic crisis are still broadly unknown. While it is possible to speculate which groups are likely to be hardest-hit, detailed distributional studies are still largely backward-looking due to a lack of real-time microdata. This paper studies the...

Am 14. Dezember 2017 stellte das ifo Institut seine Prognose für die Jahre 2017, 2018 und 2019 vor. Der Aufschwung, in dem sich die deutsche Wirtschaft seit nunmehr 2013 befindet, hat sich merklich beschleunigt. Das ifo Institut rechnet mit einem Zuwachs des realen Bruttoinlandsprodukts von...

Economists praise the efficiency of the price mechanism in allocating scarce resources. Others, however, often reject it as unfair. In this study, we investigate the extent to which economists also differ from non-economists in how they value the fairness of the price system, and examine how...

Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird untersucht, welche forschenden Volkswirte und Nichtökonomen direkten Einfluss in Öffentlichkeit und auf die Wirtschaftspolitik haben. Zu diesem Zweck machen wurden Zitate wissenschaftlicher Publikationen und Nennungen von Wissenschaftlern in führenden Medien und...