The Walter Eucken Institut is seeking to identify and contact the descendants or legal successors of Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973). […]
New working paper “Measuring Fiscal Literacy: A Framework and Evidence from the General Population”. In this study @LiliBurgstaller Arrita Domi and @mkasper_ propose a conceptual framework for Fiscal Literacy, and […]
Drawing on input from field experts, weidentify a set of 14 base topics that capture the essential ingredients of fiscal literacy. We use our base topics to test the knowledge […]
moderate levels of fiscal literacy with substantial heterogeneity; women are significantly less knowledgeable than men, and politically center-leaning respondents significantly less knowledgeable than left- or right-leaning respondents. We find that […]
correlated to individuals’ economic preferences, while political leaning is strongly associated with preferences. This pattern suggests that intermediary factors, such as political leaning, may moderate the relationship between fiscal literacy […]
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The Routledge Handbook of Classical Liberalism now has a cover and publication date (July):https://t.co/86MKSx5sPKEdited by Richard A. Epstein, Mario J. Rizzo, and @MissLiyaP – and it’s all open access 🔓/cc […]
“Vordenker der liberalen Moderne” (Pioneers of liberal modernity), which is funded by a grant from the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space. The series is a joint project […]
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Tomorrow starts our conference on Ludwig von Mises’ “Critique of the Planned Economy”. We are looking foward to welcome experts on the Austrian School and on questions regarding planned economy. […]
Happy to see our paper on asymmetric labour supply responses to tax reform published online by Labour Economics. kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrac…
In their new disc. paper “Do Local Elections Affect the Spending of Intergovernmental Transfers?” @YannickBury and @Lars_Feld study whether local spending of intergovernmental grants is influenced by mayoral elections in […]
The results show, first, that fiscal rules constrain public debt and expenditure, but do not constrain investment expenditure. Second, interest rate declines are mirrored by lower debt and total public […]
Third, varying reactions to the monetary policy shock depending on rule stringency, but public investment is not systematically more constrained by strict rules.The paper is available here as discussion paper […]
The new discussion paper by @we_philipp, L. Zell, @Lars_Feld, and C. A. Schaltegger sheds new light on the trade-off between rule-based and optimal fiscal policy. They investigate as to how […]
To isolate this effect the authors, introduce the novel forecasted average treatment (FAT) approach into empirical public finance. The methodological novelty of FAT lies in the investigation of an exogenous […]
The new discussion paper by @we_philipp aims at transforming qualitative information from written law in a quantitative index variable. The challenge consists in finding the balance between high information density […]
For this, the paper provides a novel evaluation framework for collecting data in legal codes. The data is then transformed to index variables using four distinct aggregation techniques: discretionary, optimized, […]
The techniques are evaluated by variance and sensitivity analyses and compared against well-established datasets. Conceptualization, aggregation, and evaluation are exemplified by deriving a new fiscal rule index for Swiss cantons […]
The paper is available here as discussion paper 2025/05👇https://t.co/4OTWX0uoBy[4/4]
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