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The emergence of the digital society has become one of the most pressing research topics in social science. So far, political science has been at the margins of the debate because it has been restricted by a rather narrow focus on networked commun...

Die Diskussion um neue Gesetze für die Technologien der Künstlichen Intelligenz läuft auf Hochtouren. Allerorts werden Strategien, Leitlinien und Empfehlungen veröffentlicht. Doch was macht die Technik in ihrem Wesenskern aus? Was ist ihr speziell...

Die zentrale Bedeutung wissenschaftlichen und professionellen Expert*innenwissens manifestiert sich am Beispiel neuer Technologien. Im Zuge der Digitalisierung kommen neue Technologien auf, zu deren präziser Abschätzung der Potentiale und Gefahren...

The Covid-19 pandemic disrupted “normal” modes of public sphere functioning and activated an experimental mode of coping, reinventing forms of publicness and communicative exchanges. We conceptualize the social responses triggered by the crisis as...

The outbreak of COVID-19 has had a detrimental effect on global health care systems, with a ripple effect on every aspect of human life as we know it. On January 30, 2020 the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 as a global emergency (WHO, ...

The European debt crisis has brought about permanent changes in the Eurozone (EZ). The no-bailout rule was—de facto—removed, new institutions such as the ESM and the banking union were designed and partially implemented, new monitoring and surveil...

This paper discusses the introduction of new own resources to finance the EU budget. Currently roughly two thirds of the budget is financed from GNI-based own resources, which are essentially contributions made by the member states out of national...

Alongside a range of already well documented factors such as deindustrialization, technological progress and international trade, a series of recent empirical econometric studies show that immigration has contributed to the rise of extreme right-w...

This paper reviews the main theories of interest rate determination and studies the dynamics of the real interest rate in US. Using cointegration techniques we search for equilibrium relationships between the real interest rate, monetary factors a...

This policy report provides an overview of firm R&D support policies used by European countries, reviews the empirical evidence on the effectiveness of these policies, and discusses implications for policy. Existing literature suggests that fi...

We examine how structural reforms relate to income inequality. We employ many indicators of structural reforms and use data for market and net income inequality. The dataset includes up to 135 countries since 1960. The results do not suggest that ...

基于网商银行与县域合作的独特数据，本文考察了数字普惠金融服务能否 助力共同富裕、通过何种机制发挥作用，以及发展何种类型的数字普惠金融更有利于社会 价值提升。研究结果表明：（1）网商银行运用数字技术为县域及农村地区提供的金融服 务，显著缩小了县域内部的城乡收入差距和县域之间的区域收入差距，即数字普惠金融有 助于推动实现共同富裕；（2）缓解流动性约束是数字普惠金融影响收入差距的主要作用机 制，提升信贷可得性（即流动性获取的可能性和规模）、提高信贷便利性（即流动性获取的 速度）和降低融资成本（即...

In settings where women’s land rights are informal, the death of a husband can severely limit a widow’s access to land and her ability to remain in her home—especially in the absence of a male heir. This paper examines whether large-scale land for...

Property registries have long been a pillar of state capacity and a basis for private market activity. While registry establishment and operation traditionally were costly and time consuming, digital technology makes low-cost registry operation an...

This study assesses whether the introduction of the GSIB surcharge requirement resulted in GSIBs reducing the systemic risk posed by their activities. We find limited evidence of GSIBs managing their activities to avoid increases in their surcharg...

Niger faces significant challenges to mobilize revenue, with one of the lowest tax revenue to GDP ratios in the region. This paper estimates the tax revenue gap, which reflects the difference between the actual and the potential tax revenue given ...

Labor productivity in Sweden is among the highest in Europe but has been experiencing a secular decline since the GFC, similar to trends in other advanced economies. Sweden’s strong performance is supported by a skilled labor force, a competitive...

Macroeconomics is arguably the most male-dominated field within the discipline of economics. Since the mid-1990s, feminist economists have thoroughly and meticulously challenged this field through empirical and theoretical analyses and proposed al...