The toolkit of the so-called credibility revolution dominates empirical economics, with its promise of causal identification to improve scientific knowledge and ultimately policy. By examining the case of rural electrification in the Global South, this opinion paper exposes the limits of this...

The incompleteness of Europe's different levels of economic governance was the theme of this Florence School of Banking and Finance conference, held under Chatham House rules. The conference consisted of three panel sessions, one keynote lecture and one dinner speech. Opening the event,...

The incompleteness of Europe's different levels of economic governance was the theme of this Florence School of Banking and Finance conference, held under Chatham House rules. The conference consisted of three panel sessions, one keynote lecture and one dinner speech. Opening the event,...

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...

Die Weltwirtschaft wächst seit einiger Zeit deutlich langsamer als früher. Die wirtschaftliche Dynamik bleibt hinter den Erwartungen zurück. Holger Zemanek, Bundesministerium der Finanzen, sieht, zumindest für Deutschland, keinen besorg­niserregenden, strukturellen Abwärtstrend bei den...