Published since January 1, 2000

German Economic Review

ISSN: 1468-0475

Edited by: Peter Egger, Almut Balleer, Jesus Crespo-Cuaresma, Heidrun Hoppe-Wewetzer, Mario Larch, Valeria Merlo, Aderonke Osikominu, Ulrike Stefani, Martin Wagner, Georg Wamser

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German Economic Review (GER), the official publication of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik), is an international journal publishing original and rigorous research of general interest in a broad range of economic disciplines, including:

macro- and microeconomics
economic policy
international economics
public economics
finance
business administration

The scope of research approaches includes theoretical, empirical and experimental work. Innovative and thought-provoking contributions, in particular from younger authors, are especially welcome. GER is edited by an international board of editors and associate editors from Europe and overseas. This ensures access to an international pool of referees and guarantees a high intellectual standard of published contributions. Editors are committed to a prompt turnaround of submissions.

German Economic Review publishes original research of general interest in a broad range of economic discplines, including macro- and microeconomics, public economics, business administration and finance. Authors are invited to submit papers devoted to policy analysis as well as theoretical and empirical papers. All submissions are refereed. The journal's internationally composed board of editors is committed to maintaining a high standard of quality.

As the official journal of the Verein für Socialpolitik (German Economic Association), German Economic Review is provided to all the members of the association. At the same time, the journal aims at a wider international audience and invites participation and subscriptions from economists around the world.

GER is published four times a year, in English, and is available online.
Sets of data used are available at the German Economic Review Data Archive under http://journaldata.zbw.eu/journals/ger.

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Vol. 22, Iss. 2: Do political parties matter? Evidence from German municipalities by Nadine Riedel, Martin Simmler and Christian Wittrock

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Vol. 22, Iss. 1: Survival of altruistic gatekeepers: Kickbacks in medical markets by Erwin Amann and Stefan Felder

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Vol. 21, Iss. 2: Projecting the spread of COVID-19 for Germany by Jean Roch Donsimoni, René Glawion, Bodo Plachter and Klaus Wälde

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From 2020 on, the journal German Economic Review is published by De Gruyter.

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Volume 24 Issue 1

February 2023

Publicly Available March 13, 2023

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Original Articles

October 21, 2022

Team performance and the perception of being observed: Experimental evidence from top-level professional football

Massimiliano Ferraresi, Gianluca Gucciardi

Page range: 1-31

Abstract

We exploit the natural experimental setting provided by the Covid-19 lockdown to analyse how performance is affected by a friendly audience. Specifically, we use data on all football matches in the top-level competitions across France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom over the 2019/2020 season. We compare the difference between the number of points gained by teams playing at home and teams competing away before the Covid-19 outbreak, when supporters could attend any match, with the same difference after the lockdown, when all matches took place behind closed doors. We find that the performance of the home team is halved when stadiums are empty. Further analyses indicate that offensive (defensive) actions taken by the home team are drastically reduced (increased) once games are played behind closed doors. Referees are affected too, as they change their behaviour in games without spectators. Finally, the home advantage is entirely driven by teams that do not have international experience. Taken together, our findings corroborate the hypothesis that social pressure influences individual behaviour.

December 10, 2022

How do people discount over spatial distance?

Lisa Bruttel, Niklas Ziemann

Page range: 33-67

Abstract

This paper studies how individuals discount the utility they derive from their provision of goods over spatial distance. In a controlled laboratory experiment in Germany, we elicit preferences for the provision of the same good at different locations. To isolate spatial preferences from any other direct value of the goods being close to the individual, we focus on goods with “existence value.” We find that individuals put special weight on the provision of these goods in their immediate vicinity . This “vicinity bias” represents a spatial analogy to the “present bias” in the time dimension.

February 7, 2023

The Impact of COVID-19 on Bank Profitability: Cross-Country Evidence

Emmanuelle Augeraud-Véron, Whelsy Boungou

Page range: 69-95

Abstract

Using data from 5474 banks located in 23 OECD countries over the period 2019Q2–2022Q1, we study the influence of COVID-19 on bank profitability (before and during the COVID-19 vaccination period). Our results show a negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on bank profitability, especially at the onset of the health crisis. In addition, we find that vaccination against COVID-19 had a positive effect on bank profitability, not yet sufficient to compensate for the losses generated at the beginning of the pandemic. Finally, we show that these effects depend on the characteristics of banks (notably size and capital) before vaccination and on the severity of the crisis across countries. Overall, we provide the first evidence of the influence of vaccination on bank behavior in terms of profitability.

Open Access February 24, 2023

Good Bye Lenin Revisited: East-West Preferences Three Decades after German Reunification

Mariia Bondar, Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln

Page range: 97-119

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In this paper, we document that living under Communism versus Capitalism has lasting effects on preferences for a strong government. Relying on the natural experiment of German reunification and extending the analysis of Alesina and Fuchs-Schündeln (2007), we show that East Germans still have stronger preferences for redistribution than West Germans 27 years after reunification. While convergence of preferences occurs, the speed of convergence decreases significantly over time. Evidence from cohorts born after German reunification points towards significant intergenerational transmission of preferences.

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Editors
Peter Egger (Coordinating Editor), Chair of Applied Economics: Internationalization and Innovation, KOF Konjunkturforschungsstelle, Zurich, Switzerland
Almut Balleer, Empirical Economic Research Unit, RWTH University of Aachen, Germany
Jesus Crespo-Cuaresma, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Mario Larch, University of Bayreuth, Faculty of Law and Economics, Germany
Valeria Merlo, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany
Aderonke Osikominu, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
Georg Wamser, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany

Editorial Board
Ralf Ewert, University Graz, Austria
Bernhard Felderer, University of Vienna, Austria
Clemens Fuest, University of Munich, Germany
Daniel Gros, The Centre of European Policy Studies, Brussels, Belgium
Kai Konrad, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Munich, Germany
Friedrich Schneider, University of Linz, Austria
Monika Schnitzer, University of Munich, Germany
Dennis J. Snower, Institute for World Economics, Kiel, Germany
Regina Riphahn, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

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Nora Strecker, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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