Publications of the Research Group Inequality and Public Policy

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…

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…

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…

• Goodbye Privacy? – Every Second Free App Has Access to Sensitive Data
• Crowdworking – Currently Only a Marginal Form of Employment in Germany
• Among Businesses, Trademarks See More Use Than Patents for Tax Planning
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• New ZEW President Achim Wambach Establishes Research Group "Market Design"
• Childhood Is a Decisive Factor in Income Disparities in the UK and the US
• Still Room for Improvement as EU Fibre-Optic Networks Expand
• Unil…