Introduction

The Abbreviated Burn Severity Index (ABSI) by Tobiasen, which is commonly used to estimate the mortality risk of severely burned patients, calculates an additional point for the existence of…

Emissions of local pollutants from industry have declined across many developed countries over the last decades. For carbon emissions such reductions have yet to materialize. Using German administrative…

We investigate the impact of public procurement on business survival. Using Italy as a laboratory, we construct a large-scale dataset of firms—covering balance-sheet, income-statement, and administrative…

Forderungen nach Lockerungen der Schuldenbremse haben seit dem Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts zum zweiten Nachtragshaushalt 2021 Auftrieb erhalten. Oft wird argumentiert, dass die Schuldenbremse wichtige…

This study quantifies the relationship between workplace digitalization, i.e., the increasing use of frontier technologies, and workers’ health outcomes using novel and representative German linked…

Rarely has a federal budget been subject to so much controversy as that for the coming year. Since the Federal Constitutional Court’s ruling in November 2023 on the federal government’s supplementary budget,…

We propose to treat survey-based density expectations as compositional data when testing either for heterogeneity in density forecasts across different groups of agents or for changes over time. Monte Carlo…