Die Jahrestagung der Initiative Arbeitsrechtsgeschichte widmet sich diesmal spezifischen Fragen urbaner Arbeitsverhältnisse der Frühen Neuzeit. Gegenstand der Tagung sind fragmentierte, statusbezogene Arbeitsbeziehungen der Vormoderne. Sie standen oft im Spannungsfeld verschiedener normativer...

This paper develops a new class of poverty and inequality measures we call common prosperity. This measure complements existing classes of measures and allows decomposition across income sources or components of consumption expenditure. This framework enables us to study the trade-off between...

The 2022 Global Tax Symposium will address topics crossing the spheres of New Frontiers of International Taxation. We call for papers that may address principled, theoretical or pragmatic issues connected to tax and development. The select themes covered by this symposium are - Design and...

We build a tractable two-agent New Keynesian (TANK) model to jointly study four types of policy: conventional monetary policy, quantitative easing (QE), government expenditures, and lump-sum transfers. We find QE, transfers, and government spending can have the same effects on the aggregate...

Le panel présentera une discussion sur l’économie et l’éthique de la distribution des vaccins.

SAIIA invites you to the launch of futures-orientated policy research on the emerging digital geopolitical landscape in southern Africa and Africa at large. The policy insight report unpacks digital governance approaches across the United States, China, and Europe, and their implications for...

This paper studies the association between the levels of individual trust and individual economic performance. I distinguish between generalized trust, a proxy for beliefs about others' trustworthiness, and within-firm trust, i.e. trust in firm management and trust in colleagues. Using rich...

The aim of this course is to be an introduction in how to do consumer behavior research, rather than to provide exhaustive coverage of the field as a whole. It will focus on evaluating papers, preparing research ideas, and developing them into research proposals in four important areas of...

Die 10. Konferenz „Forschen mit dem Mikrozensus“ bietet eine Plattform zur Diskussion von inhaltlichen und methodischen Beiträgen aus allen Arbeitsgebieten der Sozialwissenschaften und angrenzenden Disziplinen. Darüber hinaus dient die Konferenz dem Erfahrungsaustausch zwischen...

Topics include but are not limited to: 1) Dos and don’ts of inflation targeting ; 2) Optimal inflation target and the natural rate of interest in economies with limited transmission ; 3) Constraints of fiscal dominance and optimal balance between fiscal and monetary policy ; 4) Policy with...