Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht treibende Kräfte für rechtspopulistisches Wahlverhalten (gemessen über den Stimmenanteil der Partei Alternative für Deutschland) in Wahlen zum Deutschen Bundestag zwischen 2013 und 2025. Die Studie legt einen besonderen Fokus auf Determinanten mit Arbeitsmarktbezug, da sich diese mit Maßnahmen der Wirtschaftspolitik beeinflussen lassen. 

Das britische Wirtschaftsmagazin The Economist hat die Wirtschaftspolitik der Regierung Trump als „Fortress Economics“ bezeichnet. Bei der Festung USA werden alle Zugbrücken hochgezogen. Importe werden mit dem expliziten Ziel durch Zölle verteuert, um (fast) alle Produkte wieder in den USA zu produzieren. Und die Grenzen der USA, nicht nur nach Mexiko, sind fast vollständig geschlossen.

We examine the effects of the big five personalities of CEOs (openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism) on their annual compensation. We hand-collect the tweets of S&P 1500 CEOs and use IBM's Watson Personality Insights to measure their personalities. CEOs with high ratings of agreeableness and conscientiousness get more compensation. We further find that the firms with these CEOs outperform their peers due to better investment efficiency. Firms are willing to pay higher compensation for talent, especially for firms with better operations, located in states with higher labor unionization, or facing higher competition in the product market. Overall, CEO personality is a valid predictor of CEOs' compensation.

This paper analyzes the impact of reduced tax incentives for equity financing on banks' regulatory capital ratios under the Basel III regime. We are particularly interested in a recent interest rate cut in the Italian corporate equity allowance, which reduces the relative tax advantage of equity financing. The results show that banks respond to this increased tax disparity by significantly reducing their regulatory capital while at the same time reducing their risk-taking. The decline in capital is more pronounced for small banks and outweighs the initial capital gains from the introduction of this tax instrument. Our results challenge the use of equity allowances, in that financial stability gains persist only as long as costly tax subsidies remain intact and diminish as the size of the subsidy is reduced.

This study employs bilateral data on external assets to examine the impact of climate policies on the reallocation of international capital. We find that the stringency of climate policy in the destination country is significantly and positively associated with an increase in the allocation of portfolio equity and banking investment to that country. However, it does not show significant effects on the allocation of foreign direct investment and portfolio debt. Our findings are not driven by valuation effects, and we present evidence that suggests diversification, suasion, and uncertainty mitigation as possible underlying mechanisms.