Understanding the causes of the slowdown in aggregate productivity growth is key to maintaining the competitiveness of advanced economies and ensuring long-term economic prosperity. This paper provides evidence that investment in intangible capital, despite having a positive effect on productivity at the micro level, is a driver of the weak productivity performance at the aggregate level as it amplifies ...
Self-efficacy reflects the self-belief that one can persistently perform difficult and novel tasks while coping with adversity. As such beliefs reflect how individuals behave, think, and act, they are key for successful entrepreneurial activities. While existing literature mainly analyzes the influence of the task-related construct of entrepreneurial self-efficacy, we take a different perspective and ...
Risk attitudes are important predictors of various economic decisions and socioeconomic outcomes. Although studies show that peoples’ general willingness to take risks decreases with age, there are few reports on the age dependence of domain-specific risk attitudes. Drawing on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this study employs a proxy variable approach to disentangle age from periodic and cohort effects, ...
Wer die Übergewinnsteuer für Banken kritisiert, hat zwar durchaus gute Argumente auf seiner Seite. In dieser Krise haben aber die Befürworter die besseren. Die Entscheidung von fünf europäischen Regierungen – jüngst auch der italienischen –, eine Übergewinnsteuer für Banken einzuführen, hat in Deutschland die Diskussion darüber wieder aufleben lassen. Vertreter von Finanzinstituten lehnen selbstverständlich ...
According to theory, "sin taxes" are welfare improving if consumers with low self-control respond at least as much to the tax as consumers with high self-control. We investigate empirically if demand response to soft drink and fat tax variations in Denmark depends on consumers' self-control. We use a unique home-scan panel that includes a survey measure of self-control. When taxes increase, consumers ...
Since the new millennium, research in the field of personality development has focused on the stability and change of basic personality traits. Motivational aspects of personality and their longitudinal association with basic traits have received comparably little attention. In this preregistered study, we applied bivariate latent growth curve model to investigated the codevelopment of nine life goals ...
Die Konferenz soll eine Plattform bieten, die Idee der Sozialpartnerschaft und die damit verbundenen Chancen und Herausforderungen mit den Autorinnen und Autoren des aktuellen Vierteljahrshefts zu diskutieren. Die Sozialpartnerschaft war von herausragender Bedeutung für den Wiederaufbau der Bundesrepublik Deutschland nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg. Langanhaltender sozialer Friede und...
