As immigration to Europe has increased, so has support for extremist parties. While many studies have examined the effect of immigration on election outcomes, few have probed the effect of asylum seekers – those fleeing strife and persecution – on voting, nor has there been much research on...

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 the far left. Our identification...

Die durch die Corona-Pandemie entstandene Krisensituation beschleunigte die Digitalisierungsprozesse im Lebensmitteleinzelhandel. Wie wirkte sie sich auf Dorfläden und ländliche Verbraucher aus, die traditionell nicht als Digitalisierungspioniere gelten? Eine Antwort auf diese Frage wird im...