This paper empirically analyzes the question whether government involvement in the economy is conducive or detrimental to life satisfaction in a cross-section of 74 countries. This provides a test of a longstanding dispute between standard neoclassical economic theory, which predicts that...

This paper empirically analyzes the question whether government involvement in the economy is conducive or detrimental to life satisfaction in a cross-section of 74 countries. This provides a test of a longstanding dispute between standard neoclassical economic theory, which predicts that...

The deleterious impact of institutions of direct legislation on student performance found in studies for both the U.S. and Switzerland has raised the question of what its transmission channels are. For the U.S., an increase in the ratio of administrative to instructional spending and larger...

Die wissenschaftliche, wie auch die öffentliche Diskussion über die Kreditvergabe des IWF und der Weltbank, hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren spürbar intensiviert. Mit dem Ziel, einen Beitrag zu dieser Diskussion zu leisten, wird zunächst die Auflagenpolitik und das Vergabeverhalten der...