We study the economic implications of mineral resource activity for non-mining regions at the grid-level across the African continent. We find that capital cities benefit from mineral resource activity anywhere…
We study the economic implications of regional favoritism, a form of distributive politics that redistributes resources spatially within countries. We use a large sample of enterprise surveys spanning…
We study the long-run implications of regional and ethnic favoritism in Africa. Combining geocoded individual-level survey data from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) with data on national leaders’…
Die grundgesetzlichen Schuldenregeln in Deutschland (auch „Schuldenbremse” genannt) sind zunehmend einer Reformdebatte ausgesetzt, die sich durch die fiskalischen Auswirkungen der Covid-19 Pandemie noch einmal…
We analyze both theoretically and empirically how monetary incentives and information about others’ behavior affect dishonesty. We run a laboratory experiment with 560 participants, each of whom observes a…
