In 2013, the German Council of Economic Experts advised the then future German government to pursue a decisively marketoriented economic reform agenda in the fields of labour market and pension policy, tax policy and climate policy. Yet, policy makers have ignored this advice, basically...

Inspired by the literature on social polarisation and residential segregation we draw on a probabilistic approach to pursue the evolution of household location preferences in West Germany. Using microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the period 1984-2020 we demonstrate that...

Any serious empirical study of factor substitutability has to allow the data to display complementarity as well as substitutability. The standard approach reflecting this idea is a translog specification – this is also the approach used by numerous studies analyzing the relative capital-skill...

This paper outlines why program evaluation should follow well-respected scientific standards and why it should be performed by independent researchers.

The question of whether two drugs - namely alcohol and tobacco - are used as complements or substitutes is of crucial interest if side-effects of anti-smoking policies are considered. Numerous papers have empirically addressed this issue by estimating demand systems for alcohol and tobacco and...

Der starke Anstieg der Energiepreise, der bereits im Jahr 2021 begann, und der russische Angriff auf die Ukraine im Februar 2022 haben die Sicherheit der Energieversorgung Europas in den öffentlichen und politischen Fokus gerückt. Dieser Beitrag quantifiziert vor diesem Hintergrund die...

This study investigates the different cognitive and non-cognitive characteristics associated with individuals' willingness to get vaccinated against Covid-19 and their actual vaccination status. Our empirical analysis is based on data obtained from three survey waves of about 2,000 individuals...

The German economy is in difficult waters. Since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, there has been no end to the challenges posed by interruptions in production and supply problems. Despite the need for crisis management, politicians have pledged not to lose sight of environmental...

This study investigates the different cognitive and non-cognitive characteristics associated with individuals' willingness to get vaccinated against Covid-19 and their actual vaccination status. Our empirical analysis is based on data obtained from three survey waves of about 2,000 individuals...