Publications of the Research Group Inequality and Public Policy

• Emerging Economies Catch up to Developed Countries in Terms of Competitiveness
• Equity as Profitable Old-Age Investment
• Gender Norms Influence Salary Information of Men and Women in Surveys
• European…

We show that the discontinuity in the distribution of surveyed female income shares at the margin where a woman would outearn her partner is primarily driven by norm induced misreporting in surveys. We draw on…

We study preferences for tax simplification using new survey and experimental data for a representative sample of the German population. General wisdom seems to suggest that most tax systems are overly complex…

We assess the influence of moneyed interests on legislative decisions. Our theory predicts that the vote outcome distribution and donation flows in a legislature feature a discontinuity at the approval threshold…

• Interest Groups in the US Influence Voting Behaviour on Contested Bills
• Corporate Landscapes in East and West Germany Are Becoming More and More Alike
• Q&A: How Do Chinese Executives Approach Germany – and…

We investigate the long-run effects of government surveillance on civic capital and economic performance, studying the case of the Stasi in East Germany. Exploiting regional variation in the number of spies and…

We create a novel database of hand-collected information from the country-by-country reports (CbCRs) of more than 100 multinational bank groups headquartered in the EU for 2014-2016. We compare this new dataset…