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Author: Ludwig, M.; Fabel, M.; Flückiger, M.; Rainer, H.; Waldinger, M.; Wichert, S. • Journal/Series: Nature Human Behaviour, 9, 481–495
We study the relationship between the Fridays for Future climate protest movement in Germany and citizen political behaviour. In 2019, crowds of young protesters, mostly under voting age, demanded immediate climate action. Exploiting cell-phone-based mobility data and hand-collected information on…
Author: Rösel, F.; Nitschke, R. • Journal/Series: FinanzArchiv (European Journal of Public Finance)
Why do public policies change little over time in individual places, sometimes for centuries? We investigate different mechanisms for policy persistence. Several city mayors serving in democratic Weimar Germany were expelled by the Nazis in 1933, but re-installed by the…
Author: Rösel, F.; Potrafke, N. • Journal/Series: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 229, 106856
Does social media or offline social cohesion overcome collective action problems more effectively when both types of networks are prevalent? We investigate non-violent protests against a place-based economic reform in Austria—a country where one in two citizens uses Facebook but…
Author: Döbeling, T.; Ikeme, S.; Countryman, A. M. • Journal/Series: The World Economy
The United States has increased protectionist measures since 2018 and has remained notably passive while other nations have pursued trade agreements. This change, coupled with the potential for future increased import tariffs, suggests impending changes in trade dynamics between the…
Author: Freund, F.; Soisontes, S.; Laquai, V.; Banse, M. • Journal/Series: Ecological Economics, 228, 108455
In Germany and other EU countries, preferences for regional and GMO-free feed can increasingly be observed. Many industries like to brand their dairy, eggs and meat products as produced with regional and GMO-free feed. This – among others – has…
Author: Springmann, M.; Dinivitzer, E.; Freund, F.; Jensen, J. D.; Bouyssou, C. G. • Journal/Series: Nature Food, 6(2), 161–169
Fiscal policies can provide important incentives for encouraging the dietary changes needed to achieve global policy targets. Across Europe, the foods relevant to health and the environment often incur reduced but non-zero value-added tax (VAT) rates at about half the…
Author: Banse, M.; Pelikan, J.; Freund, F. • Journal/Series: Project Brief / Thünen Institute, Volume 2025/18a
Author: Rösel, F. • Journal/Series: CESifo Economic Studies, 70(2), 73–83
Party politics in Austria has two distinctive features: institutionalized power sharing between the two main parties, known as Proporz, and a longstanding tradition of far-right populism. I examine whether these two phenomena are connected: Does reduced political competition correlate with…
Author: Rösel, F.; Ochsner, C. • Journal/Series: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 16(3), 76–112
We study whether long-gone but activated history can shape social attitudes and behavior even after centuries. We exploit the case of the sieges of Vienna in 1529 and 1683, when Turkish troops pillaged individual municipalities across East Austria. In 2005,…
Author: Grossmann, J.; Jurajda, Š.; Rösel, F. • Journal/Series: American Journal of Political Science, 68(2), 751–766
How do staying minorities that evade ethnic cleansing integrate into re-settled communities? After World War Two, three million ethnic Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland, but some were allowed to stay, many of them left-leaning anti-fascists. We study quasi-experimental local…
Author: Ludwig, M.; Flückiger, M.; Larch, M.; Pascali, L. • Journal/Series: CEPR Working Paper DP18767 (Revise & Resubmit at American Economic Review)
In the latter half of the fourth millennium BC, our ancestors witnessed a remarkable transformation, progressing from simple agrarian villages to complex urban civilizations. In regions as far apart as the Nile Valley, Mesopotamia, Central Asia, and the Indus Valley,…
Author: Ludwig, M.; Le, H. M. • Journal/Series: (Revise & Resubmit at Journal of the European Economic Association)
We study the impact of saltwater intrusion-a process intensified by climate change-on the livelihoods of farmers in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta, a large rice exporter. To capture spatiotemporal variations in salinization, we develop a localized index based on river salinity…
Author: Ludwig, M.; Flückiger, M. • Journal/Series: Journal of Public Economics (accepted)
This paper documents that online social networks – Facebook in particular – can facilitate the spread of social movements across space and time. Focusing on the largest protest movement in recent history, the wave of Black Lives Matter protests sparked…
Author: Springmann, M.; Kennard, H.; Dalin, C.; Freund, F. • Journal/Series: Nature Food, 4(10), 886–893
Food trade is generally perceived to increase the availability and diversity of foods available to consumers, but there is little empirical evidence on its implications for human health. Here we show that a substantial proportion of dietary risks and diet-related…
Author: Fournier Gabela, J. G.; Freund, F. • Journal/Series: Climatic Change, 176(5), 65
Achieving climate targets requires more stringent mitigation policies, including the participation of all economic sectors. However, in a fragmented global climate regime, unilateral mitigation policies affecting sectors’ production costs increase carbon leakage risk. Carbon leakage implies reducing the competitiveness of…
Author: Rieger, J.; Freund, F.; Offermann, F.; Geibel, I.; Gocht, A. • Journal/Series: Journal of Agricultural Economics, 74(3), 764–784
The implications of dietary changes for the environment and for human health are well documented, but the impacts on the agricultural sector are less well researched. We fill this gap by specifying scenarios in which European consumers' diets approximate the…
Author: Rösel, F.; Foertsch, M. • Journal/Series: CESifo Working Paper No. 10705
Can public infrastructure help regions to mitigate large shocks? We examine how hospital infrastructure contributes to regional resilience in the event of serious health emergencies. During the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, four out of every 1,000 Germans died. We find…
Author: Geibel, I.; Freund, F. • Journal/Series: Environmental Research Letters, 18(12), 124026
Livestock farming is one of the main sources of greenhouse gas emissions. In Europe, the agricultural sectors of Ireland and Denmark are the most livestock-intensive. Based on a scenario analysis using a computable general equilibrium model, we estimate the effects…
Author: Margarian, A.; Hundt, C. • Journal/Series: Competitiveness Review, 33(7), 1–21
Author: Arends, H.; Brik, T.; Herrmann, B.; Rösel, F. • Journal/Series: Journal of Comparative Economics, 51(4), 1356–1365
Can decentralization of political powers increase trust in government? We present quasi-experimental evidence from Ukraine where political trust has been among the lowest levels worldwide. The national government devolved powers and resources to newly formed local governments (hromadas) between 2015…
