Herwartz, Helmut

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[["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Economics & Politics"],["dc.contributor.affiliation","Esteve‐González, Patricia; 1Department of Computer Science University of Oxford Oxford UK"],["dc.contributor.affiliation","Theilen, Bernd; 3Departament d'Economia and ECO‐SOS Universitat Rovira i Virgili Tarragona Spain"],["dc.contributor.author","Esteve‐González, Patricia"],["dc.contributor.author","Herwartz, Helmut"],["dc.contributor.author","Theilen, Bernd"],["dc.date.accessioned","2021-04-14T08:23:59Z"],["dc.date.available","2021-04-14T08:23:59Z"],["dc.date.issued","2020"],["dc.date.updated","2022-02-09T13:21:32Z"],["dc.description.abstract","Abstract We analyze in how far market perceptions of actual financial integration affect EU integration support at the country level. As indicators of realized states of integration in financial markets we rely upon yield differentials of long‐term government debt. To identify particular situations that could undermine the integration process, we suggest a new measure of EU integration risks that fulfills a number of properties which are desirable to ensure its informational value. Our results indicate that tensions to finance public debt in integrated financial markets are the main contributor to weakened support for EU integration. Particularly, large yield spreads increase the polarization on this issue at the country level. Moreover, as a confirmation of a‐priori expectations, we find that the national support for EU integration sees a fostering in times of economic upswing and under beneficial structural EU funding. These results indicate that it becomes crucial to monitor increasing international yield differences as they could prepare the ground for claims for EU disintegration policies, thereby, threatening future advances of the EU integration project."],["dc.description.sponsorship","Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación/ European Regional Development Fund"],["dc.description.sponsorship","Generalitat de Catalunya/ Universitat Rovira i Virgili"],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1111/ecpo.12166"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/81121"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","DOI Import GROB-399"],["dc.relation.eissn","1468-0343"],["dc.relation.issn","0954-1985"],["dc.rights","This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited."],["dc.title","National support for the European integration project: Does financial integration matter?"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]

[["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","121"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","1-2"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Public Choice"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","139"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","159"],["dc.contributor.author","Herwartz, Helmut"],["dc.contributor.author","Theilen, Bernd"],["dc.date.accessioned","2018-11-07T09:42:17Z"],["dc.date.available","2018-11-07T09:42:17Z"],["dc.date.issued","2014"],["dc.description.abstract","Several recent studies suggest that transfers from central to regional governments are motivated by political considerations. In this paper we examine if this is also the case for transfers from regional to central governments in the context of the German fiscal equalization system. We examine the factors that contribute to differences in tax revenues across German states. The evidence indicates that both fiscal incentives and political factors can explain these differences, although in Germany the former are more important. Moreover, accounting for fiscal institutions has important consequences for the empirical assessment of political influences on taxation. Overall we find that the political affiliation of the state governor is an important factor in explaining differences in state tax revenues. Thus, the right-wing party (CDU/CSU) is effective in relaxing the tax burden at the state level. In contrast, partisan alignment between the state government and the federal government loses its importance once fiscal conditions enter the empirical model."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1007/s11127-012-0031-0"],["dc.identifier.isi","000333156600009"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/33919"],["dc.notes.status","zu prüfen"],["dc.notes.submitter","Najko"],["dc.publisher","Springer"],["dc.relation.issn","1573-7101"],["dc.relation.issn","0048-5829"],["dc.title","On the political and fiscal determinants of income redistribution under federalism and democracy: evidence from Germany"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","yes"],["dc.type.status","published"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]

[["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","74"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","European Journal of Political Economy"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","90"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","46"],["dc.contributor.author","Herwartz, Helmut"],["dc.contributor.author","Theilen, Bernd"],["dc.date.accessioned","2018-11-07T10:29:17Z"],["dc.date.available","2018-11-07T10:29:17Z"],["dc.date.issued","2017"],["dc.description.abstract","For a panel of OECD economies (1980-2013) we analyse the scope of government ideology to shape patterns of public expenditures. To address if public expenditures are used to channel redistributive outcomes, we adopt a flexible panel error correction model and proceed in two steps: Firstly, we analyse if ideological positions matter for the sizing of the public sector. Secondly, we address the actual impact of government ideology on two disjoint categories of public expenditure that are characterized by distinguished redistributive effects. Under both, left-wing and right-wing governments, public spending shows progressively redistributive effects which are indirectly channelled through their policy response to changing macroeconomic, fiscal and demographic fundamentals. While right-wing governments act progressively redistributive under favourable socio-economic conditions, their left-wing counterparts do so under unfavourable conditions. Comparing the two effects in terms of their explanatory content, we find that the latter is stronger than the former."],["dc.description.sponsorship","Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion [ECO2013-42884-P]"],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2016.11.002"],["dc.identifier.isi","000392783700006"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/43611"],["dc.notes.status","zu prüfen"],["dc.notes.submitter","PUB_WoS_Import"],["dc.publisher","Elsevier Science Inc"],["dc.relation.issn","1873-5703"],["dc.relation.issn","0176-2680"],["dc.title","Ideology and redistribution through public spending"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","yes"],["dc.type.status","published"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]

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[["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","409"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","European Journal of Political Economy"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","424"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","34"],["dc.contributor.author","Herwartz, Helmut"],["dc.contributor.author","Theilen, Bernd"],["dc.date.accessioned","2018-11-07T09:39:47Z"],["dc.date.available","2018-11-07T09:39:47Z"],["dc.date.issued","2014"],["dc.description.abstract","In this paper we examine whether partisan influence on social expenditure in the OECD has decreased over the past three decades. We analyze whether a reduced partisan influence is due to more trade openness, larger budget deficits or the creation of new supranational institutions. Our empirical approach distinguishes between the effects on the long-run growth of social expenditures and its short-run adjustment to violations of the long-run equilibrium linking social spending with macroeconomic and demographic trends. We find that partisan motives, indeed, play an important role in the explanation of short-run dynamics in social spending. Left-wing parties are found to spend significantly more than their right-wing counterparts and parties spend more before elections. However, the partisan influence has changed over time. While ideology has lost some of its influence, the electoral cycle has become more important to explain changes in social expenditure. This result should be addressed to a general institutional change that took place in the early 1990s and continued over that decade. While changes in trade openness, indebtedness and budget deficits have not changed the partisan influence on social spending, they are particularly important to explain the short-run dynamics of social spending. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2013.10.003"],["dc.identifier.isi","000336018100025"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/33366"],["dc.notes.status","zu prüfen"],["dc.notes.submitter","Najko"],["dc.publisher","Elsevier Science Inc"],["dc.relation.issn","1873-5703"],["dc.relation.issn","0176-2680"],["dc.title","Partisan influence on social spending under market integration, fiscal pressure and institutional change"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","yes"],["dc.type.status","published"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]

[["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","225"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","2"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Health Economics"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","240"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","23"],["dc.contributor.author","Herwartz, Helmut"],["dc.contributor.author","Theilen, Bernd"],["dc.date.accessioned","2018-11-07T09:44:44Z"],["dc.date.available","2018-11-07T09:44:44Z"],["dc.date.issued","2014"],["dc.description.abstract","In this article, we examined if partisan ideology and electoral motives influence public healthcare expenditure (HCE) in countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. We distinguished between the effects on the growth of the expenditures and its adjustment to violations of a long-run equilibrium linking HCE with macroeconomic and demographic trends. Regarding the influence of partisan ideology, we found that if governments are sufficiently long in power, right-wing governments spend less on public health than their left-wing counterparts. Furthermore, if a right-wing party governs without coalition partners, it responds more strongly to deviations from the long-run HCE equilibrium than left-wing governments. With regard to electoral motives, we found that health expenditure increases in years of elections. Independent of their partisan ideology, single-party (minority) governments induce higher (lower) growth of public HCE. Each of these political factors by its own may increase (decrease) HCE growth by approximately one percentage point. Given an average annual growth of HCE of approximately 4.1%, political factors turn out to be important determinants of trends in public HCE. Copyright (c) 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd."],["dc.description.sponsorship","Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion [ECO2010-17113]"],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1002/hec.2917"],["dc.identifier.isi","000329878000007"],["dc.identifier.pmid","23483658"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/34459"],["dc.notes.status","zu prüfen"],["dc.notes.submitter","Najko"],["dc.publisher","Wiley-blackwell"],["dc.relation.issn","1099-1050"],["dc.relation.issn","1057-9230"],["dc.title","HEALTH CARE AND IDEOLOGY: A RECONSIDERATION OF POLITICAL DETERMINANTS OF PUBLIC HEALTHCARE FUNDING IN THE OECD"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","yes"],["dc.type.status","published"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]

[["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","1627"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","4"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Empirical Economics"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","1645"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","50"],["dc.contributor.author","Herwartz, Helmut"],["dc.contributor.author","Sarda, Jordi"],["dc.contributor.author","Theilen, Bernd"],["dc.date.accessioned","2018-11-07T10:13:55Z"],["dc.date.available","2018-11-07T10:13:55Z"],["dc.date.issued","2016"],["dc.description.abstract","In this article, we analyze whether shadow economic activity has had a measurable influence on the demand for M1 and currency in a cross section of OECD countries since the 1970s. Since shadow economic activity is not directly observable, we use several indicator variables that are positively related to shadow economic activity. We find that, indeed, some of these variables have had a significant influence on M1 money and currency demand in OECD countries over the last decades. Our results indicate that the omission of unofficial activities leads to a considerable overestimation of the income elasticity and the interest semi-elasticity of M1 and currency demand. Measuring accurately the size of shadow economic activity is therefore an important task for central banks to determine the optimal stock of money."],["dc.description.sponsorship","Spanish 'Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion' [ECO2013-42884-P]"],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1007/s00181-015-0970-7"],["dc.identifier.isi","000375562000020"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/40520"],["dc.notes.status","zu prüfen"],["dc.notes.submitter","Najko"],["dc.publisher","Physica-verlag Gmbh & Co"],["dc.relation.issn","1435-8921"],["dc.relation.issn","0377-7332"],["dc.title","Money demand and the shadow economy: empirical evidence from OECD countries"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","yes"],["dc.type.status","published"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]

[["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Social Indicators Research"],["dc.contributor.author","Herwartz, Helmut"],["dc.contributor.author","Rodriguez-Justicia, David"],["dc.contributor.author","Theilen, Bernd"],["dc.date.accessioned","2022-10-04T10:21:19Z"],["dc.date.available","2022-10-04T10:21:19Z"],["dc.date.issued","2022"],["dc.description.abstract","Abstract\n This study proposes a new measure of wage risk based on estimated probabilities to earn an hourly wage that is below some specific lower quantile of the wage distribution. Using the German SOEP as an information rich data base, we determine wage risks overall and for nine job categories during the period from 1992 until 2015. We find that the low-wage workers in Germany are worse off after the Hartz reforms. In Western Germany this evidence stems from both a reduction of low wages and an increase of wage risk. In Eastern Germany, it is largely due to increased wage risk. Moreover, overall evidence hides important developments at the occupational level."],["dc.description.sponsorship"," Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100014440"],["dc.description.sponsorship"," Generalitat de Catalunya http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002809"],["dc.description.sponsorship"," Universitat Rovira i Virgili 501100007512"],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1007/s11205-022-02995-6"],["dc.identifier.pii","2995"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/114377"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","DOI-Import GROB-600"],["dc.relation.eissn","1573-0921"],["dc.relation.issn","0303-8300"],["dc.rights.uri","https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"],["dc.title","A New Measure of Wage Risk: Occupation-Specific Evidence for Germany"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]

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