I investigate minority votes in the German Council of Economic Experts. The dataset contains information on the voting … behavior of the council members over the period 1971-2011. The results show that the best predictor of minority voting is being … against the majority opinion of the German Council of Economic Experts. This voting pattern indicates that the channel of …

This paper analyzes the voting records of four central banks (Sweden, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic) with … spatial models of voting. We infer the policy preferences of the monetary policy committee members and use these to analyze …

Haushaltskonsolidierung beschränken sich auf deskriptive Argumente. Mit positiver Theorie und im Rahmen der Neuen Politischen Ökonomie …