1. Discussion and Working Paper // 2016

    Fiscal Competition and Public Debt

    The implications of high indebtedness for strategic tax setting in internationally integrated capital markets have found little attention so far. We analyze when and how changes in initial debt levels affect the…

  2. Discussion and Working Paper // 2016

    Public Investment in R&D in Reaction to Economic Crises - A Longitudinal Study for OECD Countries

    The paper investigates the reaction of public R&D spending on economic crises. We are interested in two counteracting motives: On the one hand, public R&D spending can be seen as a means to fight the crisis, …

  3. 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…