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View article: False consensus beliefs and populist attitudes
False consensus beliefs and populist attitudes Open
A well‐established finding from social psychology is that people tend to hold “false consensus beliefs,” that is, they regularly overestimate how many others agree with their own opinions. However, the consequences of such beliefs for citi…
View article: The Balance of Payments and Research inInternational Macroeconomics
The Balance of Payments and Research inInternational Macroeconomics Open
This chapter argues that, in recent decades, research in international macroeconomics both responded to developments reported in countries’ balances of payments and also contributed to shaping these developments. It describes how the emerg…
View article: Retained Earnings, Foreign Portfolio Ownership, and the German Current Account: A Firm-Level Approach
Retained Earnings, Foreign Portfolio Ownership, and the German Current Account: A Firm-Level Approach Open
In some countries, a sizable fraction of savings is derived from corporate savings. Although larger, traded corporations are often co-owned by foreign portfolio investors, current international accounting standards allocate all corporate s…
View article: Financial Integration in Autocracies: Greasing the Wheel or More to Steal?
Financial Integration in Autocracies: Greasing the Wheel or More to Steal? Open
This paper analyzes the influence of financial integration on institutional quality. We construct a dynamic political-economic model of an autocracy in which a ruling elite uses its political power to expropriate the general population. Al…
View article: Rallying around the EU flag: Russia's invasion of Ukraine and attitudes toward European integration
Rallying around the EU flag: Russia's invasion of Ukraine and attitudes toward European integration Open
This article uses a survey amongst students at European universities to explore whether Russia's invasion of Ukraine has affected attitudes towards European integration. Some respondents completed the survey just before Russia's assault on…
View article: Inequality and the Structure of Countries’ External Liabilities
Inequality and the Structure of Countries’ External Liabilities Open
In this paper, we present empirical evidence that higher income inequality is associated with a greater equity share in countries' external liabilities, and we develop a theoretical model that can explain this observation: In a small open …
View article: Trade shocks and the nationalist backlash in political attitudes: panel data evidence from Great Britain
Trade shocks and the nationalist backlash in political attitudes: panel data evidence from Great Britain Open
This article leverages individual-level panel data on nationalist attitudes to contribute to the debate on the (economic) roots of popular opposition to globalization. We propose a ‘nationalist backlash’ hypothesis: Individuals living in r…
View article: Offshoring and sequential production chains: A general equilibrium analysis
Offshoring and sequential production chains: A general equilibrium analysis Open
We present a two‐region general equilibrium model in which firms exploit international wage differences by offshoring parts of the production process. Firms have to take into account that production steps follow a strict sequence and that …
View article: Replication Data for: Harms, Philipp, Claudia Landwehr, Maximilian Lutz and Markus Tepe 2021. Deciding how to decide on public goods provision: The role of instrumental vs. intrinsic motives. Research & Politics
Replication Data for: Harms, Philipp, Claudia Landwehr, Maximilian Lutz and Markus Tepe 2021. Deciding how to decide on public goods provision: The role of instrumental vs. intrinsic motives. Research & Politics Open
The replication material contains the experimental protocol (zTree), dataset, and syntax (Stata) for "Deciding how to decide on public goods provision: The role of instrumental vs. intrinsic motives".
View article: Deciding how to decide on public goods provision: The role of instrumental versus intrinsic motives
Deciding how to decide on public goods provision: The role of instrumental versus intrinsic motives Open
What determines citizens’ preferences over alternative decision-making procedures – the personal gain associated with a procedure, or the intrinsic value assigned to it? To answer this question, we present results of a laboratory experimen…
View article: Deep dynamic modeling with just two time points: Can we still allow for individual trajectories?
Deep dynamic modeling with just two time points: Can we still allow for individual trajectories? Open
Longitudinal biomedical data are often characterized by a sparse time grid and individual-specific development patterns. Specifically, in epidemiological cohort studies and clinical registries we are facing the question of what can be lear…
View article: Be careful what you wish for: Brexit and the call for another referendum
Be careful what you wish for: Brexit and the call for another referendum Open
Whether or not to hold a referendum on Brexit is a clear dividing line between parties in the upcoming UK general election. However, Philipp Harms and Claudia Landwehr argue that support for such a measure is often largely contingent on ex…
View article: The special issue on FDI and multinational corporations: an introduction
The special issue on FDI and multinational corporations: an introduction Open
This paper offers an introduction to the special issue on FDI and multinational corporations: http://www.economics-ejournal.org/special-areas/special-issues/fdi-and-multinational-corporations . It summarizes the contents of the five papers…
View article: The special issue on FDI and multinational corporations: An introduction
The special issue on FDI and multinational corporations: An introduction Open
This paper offers an introduction to the special issue on FDI and multinational corporations. It summarizes the contents of the five papers included, and relates them to the recent litera-ture on the subject.
View article: The China Shock and the Nationalist Backlash against Globalization: Attitudinal Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey
The China Shock and the Nationalist Backlash against Globalization: Attitudinal Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey Open
While recent studies have examined how economic shocks arising from trade competition affect voting results at the aggregate level, we know little about the individual-level mechanisms that bring such effects about. In this contribution, w…
View article: Bilateral De-Jure Exchange Rate Regimes and Foreign Direct Investment: A Gravity Analysis
Bilateral De-Jure Exchange Rate Regimes and Foreign Direct Investment: A Gravity Analysis Open
This paper uses a newly constructed dataset on bilateral de-jure exchange rate regimes to estimate the effect of expected exchange rate volatility on foreign direct investment (FDI). The new dataset accounts for the fact that officially pe…
View article: Cultural Distance and International Trade in Services: A Disaggregate View
Cultural Distance and International Trade in Services: A Disaggregate View Open
In this paper, we estimate the effect of “cultural distance” on bilateral trade in services. The measure of cultural distance we use is based on scores that reflect country averages of individuals’ attitudes towards inequality, self-orient…