TY - GEN A1 - Groß, Steffen A1 - Pitsoulis, Athanassios T1 - "The Other Side of the Argument": Isaiah Berlin versus F.A. von Hayek on Liberty, Public Policies and the Market T2 - Constitutional Political Economy Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10602-015-9193-3 SN - 1572-9966 SN - 1043-4062 VL - 26 IS - 4 SP - 475 EP - 494 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Pitsoulis, Athanassios A1 - Schwuchow, Sören C. T1 - Coercion, credibility, and mid-air interceptions of military planes T2 - Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy N2 - Pointing out the remarkable levels of hostile interaction in the air space over contested territory between states like China and Japan or Greece and Turkey we argue that air space incursions can be interpreted as a rational strategy with ultimately political aims. In our interpretation deliberate intrusions of military aircraft into sensitive air space serve as an indirect risk-generating mechanism, as they will trigger scrambles of the opposed government's air force which may escalate into a military crisis. We derive testable hypotheses from a game-theoretic model, which we developed in earlier work to explore the strategic logic behind this risk-generating mechanism more rigorously. In order to test whether the model's predictions regarding the effect of short-term economic developments on the states' interaction hold, we built a database of daily event observations from the Hellenic National Defence General Staff reports of the last 4 years, containing time series data of Turkish intrusions into Greek-claimed air space and the number of dogfights between Greek and Turkish fighter planes. What we find is that not only Greek engagements of Turkish intruders but also massed, provocative Turkish intrusions have become significantly less likely after the onset of the Greek economic crisis. These findings are well in line with the predictions of the model and thus supportive of our theory. Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/peps-2014-0040 SN - 1554-8597 VL - 20 IS - 4 SP - 697 EP - 707 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Feld, Lars P. A1 - Schnellenbach, Jan T1 - Political Institutions and Income (Re-)Distribution: Evidence from Developed Economies T2 - Public Choice N2 - We discuss the effect of formal political institutions (electoral systems, fiscal decentralization, presidential and parliamentary regimes) on the extent and direction of income (re-)distribution. Empirical evidence is presented for a large sample of 70 economies and a panel of 13 OECD countries between 1981 and 1998. The evidence indicates that presidential regimes are associated with a less equal distribution of disposable incomes, while electoral systems have no significant effects. Fiscal competition is associated with less income redistribution and a less equal distribution of disposable incomes, but also with a more equal primary income distribution. Our evidence also is in line with earlier empirical contributions that find a positive relationship between trade openness and equality in primary and disposable incomes, as well as the overall redistributive effort. KW - Redistribution KW - Formal institutions KW - Fiscal decentralization KW - Presidential and parliamentary regimes KW - Electoral systems Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-013-0116-4 SN - 1573-7101 VL - 159 IS - 3 SP - 435 EP - 455 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schnellenbach, Jan ED - Backhaus, Jürgen G. T1 - Path-dependent rule evolution T2 - Encyclopedia of Law and Economics Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7883-6_362-1 PB - Springer CY - Heidelberg ER - TY - GEN A1 - Groß, Steffen T1 - The Power of "Mapping the Territory". Why Economists Should Become More Aware of the Performative Powers of their Models T2 - Journal of Business Economics Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11573-014-0746-0 SN - 1861-8928 SN - 0044-2372 VL - 84 IS - 9 SP - 1237 EP - 1259 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Schubert, Christian T1 - How to evaluate creative destruction: Reconstructing Schumpeter’s approach T2 - Cambridge Journal of Economics Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bes055 SN - 1464-3545 VL - 37 IS - 2 SP - 227 EP - 250 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Schubert, Christian A1 - Cordes, Christian T1 - Role Models that make you unhappy: Light Paternalism, Social Learning and Welfare T2 - Journal of Institutional Economics Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744137413000015 SN - 1744-1382 VL - 9 IS - 2 SP - 131 EP - 159 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Schubert, Christian T1 - The pitfalls of Darwinian “progress”: a comment on “Evolvability and progress in evolutionary economics” by Tim Cochrane and James Maclaurin T2 - Journal of Bioeconomics Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10818-012-9146-0 SN - 1573-6989 VL - 15 IS - 3 SP - 325 EP - 328 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Bjørnskov, Christian A1 - Dreher, Axel A1 - Fischer, Justina A1 - Schnellenbach, Jan A1 - Gehring, Kai T1 - Inequality and Happiness: When Perceived Social Mobility and Economic Reality Do Not Match T2 - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization N2 - We argue that perceived fairness of the income generation process affects the association between income inequality and subjective well-being, and that there are systematic differences in this regard between countries that are characterized by a high or, respectively, low level of actual fairness. Using a simple model of individual labor market participation under uncertainty, we predict that high levels of perceived fairness cause higher levels of individual welfare, and lower support for income redistribution. Income inequality is predicted to have a more favorable impact on subjective well-being for individuals with high fairness perceptions. This relationship is predicted to be stronger in societies that are characterized by low actual fairness. Using data on subjective well-being and a broad set of fairness measures from a pseudo micro-panel from the WVS over the 1990–2008 period, we find strong support for the negative (positive) association between fairness perceptions and the demand for more equal incomes (subjective well-being). We also find strong empirical support for the predicted differences in individual tolerance for income inequality, and the predicted influence of actual fairness. KW - Happiness KW - Life satisfaction KW - Subjective well-being KW - Inequality KW - Income distribution KW - Redistribution KW - Political ideology KW - Justice KW - Fairness KW - World Values Survey Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2013.03.017 SN - 0167-2681 VL - 91 SP - 75 EP - 92 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schnellenbach, Jan A1 - Baskaran, Thushyanthan A1 - Feld, Lars P. ED - Büstorf, Guido ED - Cantner, Uwe ED - Hanusch, Horst ED - Huttner, Michael ED - Lorenz, Hans-Walter ED - Rahmeyer, Fritz T1 - Creative Destruction and Fiscal Institutions: A Long-Run Case Study of Three Regions T2 - The Two Sides of Innovation: Creation and Destruction in the Evolution of Capitalist Economies Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-3-319-01495-1 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01496-8 N1 - Nachdruck des gleichnamigen Beitrages aus dem Journal of Evolutionary Economics SP - 187 EP - 207 PB - Springer CY - New York, NY [u.a.] ER -