Gossen Award for Moritz Schularick

Bonn’s economist Professor Moritz Schularick has been awarded the Hermann Heinrich Gossen Award. Moritz Schularick from the department of economics in Bonn has been awarded the Hermann Heinrich Gossen Award. The BGSE congratulates Moritz Schularick for being awarded the renowned Hermann Heinrich Gossen Award. The award is awarded yearly by...

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FAZ: Das Erbe der Finanzkrise

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 7 September 2018, by Gerald Braunberger. Kann sie sich wiederholen? Die Wirtschaft läuft, die Banken sind stabiler. Doch die Krise hinterlässt nicht nur hohe Schuldenberge, sondern auch ein erschüttertes Vertrauen in die Politik. “Moritz Schularick spricht von einem „Hockeyschläger“. Daran erinnert die grafische Abbildung des Verhältnisses der...

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Housing Is Back, But the American Dream Isn’t

Bloomberg, August 21, 2018, by Noah Smith. Surging prices, tight lending standards and Nimbyism keep the young and poor out of the market. “[…]” The housing market has made a remarkable — if partial — recovery since the disaster that befell it 10 years ago. In the years since the crisis, the market has...

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The Macroeconomics of Inequality (RTG)

A growing concern, in our daily lives, is equality. Hence the economics of inequality is gaining a lot of attention in our current times. The research training group (RTG) 2281, Which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), is providing a unique research opportunities that would bring together ambitious...

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The time may be right for land-value taxes

The Economist, Aug 9th 2018. ON A trip to New York in the late 1860s the journalist Henry George was puzzled. He found the rapidly growing city to be a place of unimaginable wealth. Yet it also contained deeper poverty than the less-developed West Coast. How could this be? George...

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Asset prices and wealth inequality

VOX – CEPR Policy Portal, 09 August 2018, by Moritz Kuhn, Moritz Schularick, Ulrike Steins. “Recent work examining the evolution of the wealth distribution has tended to not paid much attention to the role of asset prices. This column uses a new US dataset to explore the role that asset...

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