ifo Working Papers

When Facebook Is the Internet: The Role of Social Media in Ethnic Conflict

Virtually Borderless? Cultural Proximity and International Collaboration of Developers

Disaster Aid and Support for Mandatory Insurance: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

Career Concerns As Public Good - The Role of Signaling for Open Source Software Development

The Beauty Premium of Politicians in Office

Does Implementing Opt-Out Solve The Organ Shortage Problem? Evidence from a Synthetic Control Approach

Topic Salience and Political Polarization: Evidence from the German “PISA shock”

Ending Statelessness for Displaced Children: Impact on Early Childhood Education

Firm Expectations and News: Micro v Macro

Prosocial Risk-Taking: Growing the Pie or Increasing your Slice?

Technological Change, Task Complexity, and Preferences for Redistribution

Experience of Social Mobility and Support for Redistribution: Accepting or Blaming the System?

Good or Bad News First? The Effect of Feedback Order on Motivation and Performance

Career Preferences and Socio-Economic Background

European Electricity Prices in Times of Multiple Crises

Do Fiscal Rules Undermine Public Investments? A Review of Empirical Evidence

Individual Credit Market Experience and Beliefs about Bank Lending Policy: Evidence from a Firm Survey

Politicians’ Social Welfare Criteria – An Experiment with German Legislators

Transparency and Policy Competition: Experimental Evidence from German Citizens and Politicians

Flood Events and Plant Level Trade: A Chinese Experience

Ability Composition in the Class and the School Performance of Immigrant Students

Redesigning Automated Market Power Mitigation in Electricity Markets

Bit by Bit - Colocation and the Death of Distance in Software Developer Networks

The Challenge of Estimating the Direct and Indirect Effects of Covid-19 Interventions – Toward an Integrated Economic and Epidemiological Approach

Middle-run Impacts of Comprehensive Early Childhood Interventions: Evidence from a Pioneer Program in Chile

The Critical Role of Social Leaders in the Spread of Social Movements against Gender-Based Violence on Twitter

Infrastructure and Girls’ Education: Bicycles, Roads, and the Gender Education Gap in India

Twitter and Crime: The Effect of Social Movements on Gender-Based Violence

How Media Content Influences Economic Expectations: Evidence from a Global Expert Survey

Evolution vs. Creationism in the Classroom: The Lasting Effects of Science Education

The ifo Education Survey 2014–2021: A New Dataset on Public Preferences for Education Policy in Germany

Does Highway Access Influence Local Employment? Evidence from German Municipalities

Investment Cost Specifications Revisited

Complementary Taxation of Carbon Emissions and Local Air Pollution

Taxation of Carbon Emissions with Social and Private Discount Rates

Endogenous Technological Change in Power Markets

Can We Grow with our Children? The Effects of a Comprehensive Early Childhood Development Program

Political Shocks and Inflation Expectations: Evidence from the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Quarterly GDP Estimates for the German States

Wind Turbine Placement and Externalities

Collaboration, Decarbonization, and Distributional Effects

The Common Interests of Health Protection and the Economy: Evidence from Scenario Calculations of Covid-19 Containment Policies

ifo DSGE Model 2.0

Mobile Internet Access and the Desire to Emigrate

The Gender Pay Gap in University Student Employment

Elections and Government Efficiency

Investor Type Heterogeneity in Bottom-Up Optimization Models

First Time Around: Local Conditions and Multi-dimensional Integration of Refugees

Taxation of Carbon Emissions and Air Pollution in Intertemporal Optimization Frameworks with Social and Private Discount Rates

Trade Openness and Income Inequality: New Empirical Evidence

Who Should Bear the Burden of Covid-19 Related Fiscal Pressure? An Optimal Income Taxation Perspective

Unraveling the Black Box of Power Market Models

Institutional Investors, Climate Policy Risk, and Directed Innovation

Rewarding Conservative Politicians? Evidence from Voting on Same-Sex Marriage

The Unintended Effects of the Common Core State Standards on Non-Targeted Subjects

School Track Decisions and Teacher Recommendations: Evidence from German State Reforms

Mr. Keynes Meets the Classics: Government Spending and the Real Exchange Rate

The Liquidity Channel of Fiscal Policy

A Simple Fix for Carbon Leakage? Assessing the Environmental Effectiveness of the EU Carbon Border Adjustment

Subjective Uncertainty, Expectations, and Firm Behavior

The Effect of Teacher Characteristics on Students’ Science Achievement

The Impact of Labor Market Reforms on Income Inequality: Evidence from the German Hartz Reforms

Does the Education Level of Refugees Affect Natives’ Attitudes?

Political Institutions and Health Expenditure

Instruction Time and Student Achievement: The Moderating Role of Teacher Qualifications

Costs and Benefits of Political and Physical Collaboration in the European Power Market

Efficient Pricing of Electricity Revisited

The Pass-Through of Temporary VAT Rate Cuts in German Supermarket Retail

Autocrats in the United Nations General Assembly: A Test of the Decoy Voting Hypothesis

Democracy’s Third Wave and National Defense Spending

MSR under Exogenous Shock: The Case of Covid-19 Pandemic

New Evidence on the Anchoring of Inflation Expectations in the Euro Area

Economic Deprivation and Radical Voting: Evidence from Germany

The ifo Tax and Transfer Behavioral Microsimulation Model

30 Years of Trade Policy: Evidence from 5.7 Billion Tariffs

The Effect of Real Estate Purchase Subsidies on Property Prices

The Albedo Loss from the Melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet and the Social Cost of Carbon

Expected Effects of the US Tax Reform on Other Countries: Global and Local Survey Evidence

Steering the Energy Transition in a World of Intermittent Electricity Supply: Optimal Subsidies and Taxes for Renewables Storage

My Home Is my Castle – The Benefits of Working from Home During a Pandemic Crisis Evidence from Germany

Are Doctors Better Health Ministers?

Election Systems, the “Beauty Premium” in Politics, and the Beauty of Dissent

Beggar-thy-Neighbor or Favor thy Industry? An Empirical Review of Transatlantic Tariff Retaliation

Understanding Free Trade Attitudes: Evidence from Europe

Do Inheritance Rules Affect Voter Turnout? Evidence from an Alpine Region

Measuring Unfair Inequality: Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty

General or Central Government? Empirical Evidence on Political Cycles in Budget Composition Using New Data for OECD Countries

Does Highway Accessibility Influence Local Tax Factors? Evidence from German Municipalities

Revised version: ifo Working Paper No. 377

International Political Alignment during the Trump Presidency: Voting at the UN General Assembly

Climate Policy and Inequality in Two-Dimensional Political Competition

How New Airport Infrastructure Promotes Tourism: Evidence from a Synthetic Control Approach in German Regions

The Long-Term Costs of Government Surveillance: Insights from Stasi Spying in East Germany

Der Streit um die Targetsalden - Kommentar zu Martin Hellwigs Artikel “Target-Falle oder Empörungsfalle?”

Compulsory Voting and Political Participation: Empirical Evidence from Austria

Prohibition without Protection: Marriageable Age Law Reforms and Adolescent Fertility in Mexico

The Effect of Compulsory Schooling on Skills: Evidence from a Reform in Germany

Ineffective Fiscal Rules? The Effect of Public Sector Accounting Standards on Budgets, Efficiency, and Accountability

Partisan Bias in Inflation Expectations

Arms Production, National Defense Spending and Arms Trade: Examining Supply and Demand

Corruption and Economic Growth: New Empirical Evidence

Who Bears the Burden of Real Estate Transfer Taxes? Evidence from the German Housing Market

A Framework for Modeling the Dynamics of Power Markets – The EU-REGEN Model

How to Handle the Fiscal Crisis in Greece? Empirical Evidence Based on a Survey of Economic Experts

Fiscal Performance of Minority Governments: New Empirical Evidence for OECD Countries

The Impact of Country-by-Country Reporting on Corporate Tax Avoidance

Does Development Aid Increase Military Expenditure?

The Real Estate Transfer Tax and Government Ideology: Evidence from the German States

Lower and Upper Bounds of Inequality of Opportunity in Emerging Economies

The Urban-Rural Gap in Health Care Infrastructure – Does Government Ideology Matter?