Behavioral Market Design
Max Planck Guest Lecture. Addressing pressing economic and social challenges – such as pandemics and other health crises, climate change, […]
The Peculiarities of China’s Economic Policy
Begrüßung Prof. Dr. Viktor J. Vanberg (Vorstand des Walter Eucken Instituts) Die Referentin Prof. Dr. Mo Zhihong ist im Juni und Juli 2016 als Gast am Walter Eucken Institut. Sie[…]
The Euro and the Battle of Ideas
Hintergrund Markus Brunnermeier stellte sein neues Buch “The Euro and the Battle of Ideas” vor, das er gemeinsam mit dem renommierten Historiker Harold James und dem ehemaligen Vizepräsidenten der Französischen[…]
The Economic Constitution Between Law and God
Der Referent Harold James (*1956) ist Wirtschaftshistoriker und Professor für Geschichte an der Princeton University sowie Professor für Internationale Politik an der dortigen Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International[…]
Where is China going? The Perspective of a Constitutional Economist
Do Informed Citizens Receive More, or Pay More? The Impact of Radio on the Government Distribution of Public Health Benefits
The Economics of Emergency Constitutions
Buchanan, Subjective Costs and the Austrians
Complex Voting on Health Care Systems
Becoming an Open Democratic Capitalist Society: An International Comparative Perspective on Germany’s Sonderweg in the 20th Century
Capitalism after Crisis
Has the Fed been a Failure?
Reputational Risk and Corporate Governance in Banking and Finance
Same Players, Different Game: How Better Rules Make Better Politics
What is language?
Toward an Ordnungstheorie: Volitional Pragmatism and Economic Institutions
Social identity strategies in recent economics
What can the ‘old europe’ learn from the ‘Baltic tigers’?
The Book of Job: Towards a Theory of Entrepreneneurship
Why is Culture Important?
Libertarianism – Foundations and Applications
Monetary Policy – Recent Theory and Practice
Research Seminar: “Who Sent You? Extreme Voting, Transfers, and Bailouts in a Federation”
Lower-level governments often receive federal support through transfers or bailouts. We study how the regional ties of federal politicians can steer this process, and bring about extreme voting. We build[…]
Technology and Tax Compliance
Abstract Improving tax compliance is a common goal of governments worldwide. This paper explores the mixed effects of changing technology on tax compliance. Technological advances have largely eradicated many of[…]
Commemorative lecture on the occasion of Viktor J. Vanberg’s 80th birthday
Individualism, Rationality and Rules: A Life in Ordoliberal Thought On the occasion of the 80th birthday of its former director […]
Effects of Politically Responsive Agency Spending on Incumbent Vote Shares
In 2011, Congress banned earmarks and eliminated one avenue to claim credit for pork-barrel spending. After the ban, the desire […]
The “Benefits” of being small: Loose fiscal policy in the European Monetary Union
Referent: Lamar Crombach (KOF ETH Zürich) Abstract: Independent central banks typically counteract positive fiscal shocks that would otherwise increase the […]
Bargaining Over Taxes: Evidence From Zambian Firms
Referent: Daniel Overbeck (Universität Mannheim) Abstract: This paper shows that bargaining over tax payments is a prevalent mode of tax […]
Do Firms Hire Politicians as Board Members?
Research Seminar Speaker: Mark Schelker is a Professor of Economics and the Chair of Public Economics at the University of […]
Buchanan’s Political Economy as the Optimistic Science of Cooperation. A Historical Perspective
Research Seminar Speaker: Alain Marciano. Find his CV here.
Walter Eucken Research Seminar
Can public shaming increase tax compliance through social pressure? Many tax authorities make ample use of public shaming. However, empirical evidence from outside the laboratory on how a new shaming[…]