Populism at the government level is on the rise and we are living in a populist era. Populist leaders cling to power and populism often returns to countries. Populist governments are a drag on economic growth. Economic nationalism and protectionism are a common feature of populists in power....

How would the German economy cope with a hard economic decoupling from China? The authors study a scenario where the global economy fragments into three distinct blocs: the G7 economies and their allies, China and her allies, as well as neutral countries. German trade with China would have to be...

Wie würde die deutsche Wirtschaft eine harte wirtschaftliche Abkopplung von China bewältigen? Um dem nachzugehen, simulieren die Autoren mithilfe eines quantitativen Handelsmodels ein Szenario, in dem sich die Weltwirtschaft in drei Blöcke aufspaltet: die G7-Staaten und ihre Verbündeten,...

Amid escalating geopolitical tensions, we offers insights into the far-reaching consequences of wars. Based on a new dataset on major conflicts since 1870, the findings show that wars cause a substantial decline in GDP and spike in inflation within war zones. Interestingly, countries...

The rise of economic inequalities in advanced economies has been often linked with the growth of spatial inequalities within countries, yet there is limited comparative research that studies the relationship between national and subnational economic inequality. This paper presents the first...