This report quantifies the micro-economic effects of introducing a child care benefit ("Betreuungsgeld") for children less than three years old in Germany on both the parental labour supply and child care…
Weitgehend stabile Preise im kommenden halben Jahr
Ein erheblicher Teil der deutschen Transportwirtschaft scheint die Talsohle des konjunkturell bedingten Einbruchs der Transportmengen hinter sich zu haben. Die…
The broad literature focussing on the effects of globalization and strategic interactions on corporate tax competition has widely neglected an impact of political factors. In this paper, we analyse the effects…
This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life…
In this dissertation, I investigate the role of oil resources and economic and political institutional quality on the economic performance of Iran. To this end, I examine four related themes. First and foremost,…
This study examines the common wisdom of “natural resource curse” in rentier economy of Iran. Contrary to existing believe that higher oil rents are harmful for economic growth, we instead show that increasing…
Traditional economic theory assumes individuals to be entirely rational actors who are solely maximizing their own utility. However, various experimental studies show that individuals do not necessarily conform…
Measuring unobserved individual ability is a core challenge of the analysis of questions related to human capital development. For that purpose, concepts from psychology, predominantly measures of IQ have become…
