Despite millions of war widows worldwide, little is known about the economic consequences of being widowed by war. We use life history data from West Germany to show that war widowhood increased women’s employment immediately after World War II but led to lower employment rates later in life. War widows, therefore, carried a double burden of employment and childcare while their children were young...
Advanced technologies are inherently dependent on critical minerals and their related metals. The mining extraction of these critical minerals leads to significant social and environmental impacts that extend beyond the regions where those advanced technologies are ultimately used. This study explores the global socio-environmental challenges arising from the European Climate Law's aim for net-zero ...
In diesem Forschungsprojekt sollen die Aufkommens- und Verteilungswirkungen von Reformen der Erbschaftsteuer untersucht werden, die die Auftraggeberin vorschlägt. Die Steuervergünstigungen für Unternehmensvermögen (einschließlich der Verschonungsbedarfsprüfung) sowie für vermietete Wohnungen sollen abgeschafft werden. Um die Liquiditätsbelastungen zu mindern, soll die Steuerschuld gestundet...
The aim of this research project is to examine the revenue and distribution effects of inheritance tax reforms proposed.The tax privileges for business assets (including the exemption requirement test) and for rented apartments are to be abolished. In order to reduce liquidity impact the tax liability is to be deferred or annuitized with interest. Furthermore, personal allowances and the tax rate...
Shared pooled mobility has been hailed as a sustainable mobility solution that uses digital innovation to efficiently bundle rides. Multiple disciplines have started investigating and analyzing shared pooled mobility systems. However, there is a lack of cross-community communication making it hard to build upon knowledge from other fields or know which open questions may be of interest to other fields. ...
Purpose – Applying universal ownership theory and drawing on a multiplecase study design, this study aims to analyze what drives institutional investors to engage with government entities and what challengesthey find in the process.Design/methodology/approach – The authors relied on document analysis and conducted 12 semistructured interviews with representatives from asset owners, assetmanagers, investor ...
In this paper, we model a fossil fuel embargo as a temporary quantity constraint on fossil fuel imports and wecompare the impact with the effect of a fossil fuel price shock. We show that while both shocks have similar responses of output and inflation, they differ with respect to the reaction of other macroeconomic components,such as consumption, exports and the trade balance. In particular, an embargo ...
Sara Dietz und Kerstin Bernoth haben gemeinsam mit weiteren Autoren eine Studie zu den Erfolgen des Euro in seinen ersten 25 Jahren durchgeführt. Im Redaktionsgespräch betonen sie, dass sie nicht lange nach Erfolgen suchen mussten. Demnach sei der Euro die zweitwichtigste Währung der Welt. Eine weitere Erweiterung der Währungsunion erachten sie nur als sinnvoll, wenn wirtschaftlich starke und finanziell ...
