Publications of the Research Group Inequality and Public Policy

  1. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2016

    Determinants of fast and ultra-fast broadband adoption

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 16-065 // 2016

    Responses of Firms to Tax, Administrative and Accounting Rules: Evidence from Armenia

    Using panel data on the full population of corporate tax returns of Armenian firms, we study the behavioral response of firms to three size-dependent regulations. We find: i) a strong response to an accounting…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 16-059 // 2016

    Do Savings Increase in Response to Salient Information About Retirement and Expected Pensions?

    How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system to study this question. As of 2004, the German pension authority started to send out annual…

  4. Discussion and Working Paper // 2016

    The Long-Term Costs of Government Surveillance: Insights from Stasi Spying in East Germany

    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…