Border carbon adjustments (BCAs) are intended to limit carbon leakage while protecting domestic industry, but governments differ over whether border charges should price total embodied emissions or only…
This paper documents the evolution of labor earnings and earnings dynamics in Greece during 2002–2023 using administrative matched employer–employee data from the Greek social security system. The data span the…
Wirtschaftliche Stärke und gesellschaftliche Entwicklung hängen davon ab, wie gut vorhandene Potenziale erkannt und genutzt werden. Entscheidend sind Rahmenbedingungen, die Menschen stärken, Chancen eröffnen und…
This paper provides new causal evidence on how patent allowances affect firms and their employees based on quasi-random assignment of patent applications to examiners. Exploiting employer–employee records with…
This paper analyzes the local economic impacts of troop deployments. We exploit variation from the historic large-scale US troop withdrawal from Germany triggered by the end of the Cold War, to estimate the…
This paper investigates whether the local economic effects of niche university actors depend on regional context. Focusing on private university campuses in Germany, it exploits their staggered foundation…
Public procurement is widely regarded as an important instrument to foster innovation. We examine how additional award criteria beyond price relate to firms’ realized innovation performance by combining…
