We advance the literature on political budget cycles by testing separately for cycles in expenditures for elections in the legislative and the executive. Using municipal data, we can separately identify these…
Employment tax credit programs have been repeatedly used during economic crises, although their usefulness is empirically contestable. The objective of this paper is to quantify the tax effects of employment tax…
Die Effizienz der öffentlichen Verwaltung ist ein bedeutender Faktor für die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Mitgliedsländern der Europäischen Union und nimmt über verschiedene Kanäle Einfluss auf das unternehmerische…
Deprived housing conditions have long been recognized as a source of poor health. Nevertheless, there is scant empirical evidence of a causal relationship between housing and health. The literature identifies…
