How do trade patterns change after an external shock such as an economic crisis, and is this shift structural? This paper uses a Difference-in-Difference (DID) approach to investigate whether services trade became more digital after the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in 2008. It finds that the...

The paper analyses the economic policy-making in the first phase of the epidemic in five Central Europe countries, Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia, whose economic structure is characterized by strong export orientation. We focus on the participatory character of the governments'...

The government fragmentation hypothesis (GFH) states that coalition governments spend more than single-party governments due to an underlying common pool problem. Using a large panel data set on 604 local governments in the German state of Baden-Württemberg for the 1994-2014 period, I test the...

After the outbreak of the COVID-19 crisis, the number of insolvency filings has reached a record low in 2020. However, industry sectors are affected differently. In the early phase of the COVID-19 crisis, the number of insolvencies in the service sector decreased most substantially. In the third...

I provide an overview of minimum wage policy in Ireland over the past 20 years, and survey the recent evidence on the economic impacts of a minimum wage. Drawing on this evidence, I analyse the potential implications of the recent Covid-19 crisis on minimum wage employment in Ireland. The recent...

[Vorwort der Herausgeberinnen:] Mit dieser Veröffentlichung starten wir unsere Schriftenreihe des KCV KompetenzCentrum für angewandte Volkswirtschaftslehre der FOM Hochschule. (...) Unser erster Band der KCV Schriftenreihe widmet sich der Corona-Krise. Die Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Bands,...

Die Bundesregierung plant in der kommenden Legislaturperiode die Abschaffung der Gewerbesteuer. Hiermit verbunden wäre eine erhebliche Umwälzung des Gemeindefinanzsystems. Auch angesichts grundgesetzlicher Vorgaben ist offenkundig, daß die Abschaffung der Gewerbesteuer für die Gemeinden...