• International Financial Market Data — Assessments and Expectations
• Rise in long-term Interest Rates Expected
• Analysts Expect the US Dollar to Strengthen
• Rising Inflation Expectations
• Stock-Market Expectations still…

Despite the prevalence of government surveillance systems around the world, causal evidence on their social and economic consequences is lacking. Using county-level variation in the number of Stasi informers…

Main Results of the Survey:

• While the Paris Agreement has the potential to be a major breakthrough in global climate negotiations, a majority of German companies participating in the EU ETS do not expect that it…

Dieser Aufsatz gibt einen Überblick über ökonomische Konzepte der Lastenverteilung zur Finanzierung von öffentlichen Gütern als Beitrag zur interdisziplinären Diskussion. Im Mittelpunkt des Interesses stehen…

Recent advances in the field of digitization and robotics, such as driverless cars, largely autonomous smart factories, service robots or 3D printing, give rise to public fears that technology may substitute for…

• Goodbye Privacy? – Every Second Free App Has Access to Sensitive Data
• Crowdworking – Currently Only a Marginal Form of Employment in Germany
• Among Businesses, Trademarks See More Use Than Patents for Tax Planning
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• New ZEW President Achim Wambach Establishes Research Group "Market Design"
• Childhood Is a Decisive Factor in Income Disparities in the UK and the US
• Still Room for Improvement as EU Fibre-Optic Networks Expand
• Unil…

We examine how the geographical proximity to a microfinance bank affects financial inclusion. We study the expansion of the branch network of ProCredit banks in South-East Europe between 2006 and 2010. We report…

I study credit rationing in small firm-bank relationships by using a unique data set of matched loan applications and contracts. I establish the degree of credit rationing by relating a firm’s requested loan…