Publikationen der Forschungsgruppe Ungleichheit und Verteilungspolitik

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 25-027 // 2025

    The Effect of Airbnb on Housing Prices: Evidence from the 2017 Solar Eclipse

    This study estimates the causal impact of Airbnb expansion on local housing prices by exploiting the 2017 total solar eclipse as a natural experiment. The eclipse’s path of totality created a exogenous temporary…

  2. Discussion und Working Paper // 2025

    The Effect of Airbnb on Housing Prices: Evidence from the 2017 Solar Eclipse

    This study estimates the causal impact of Airbnb expansion on local housing prices by exploiting the 2017 total solar eclipse as a natural experiment. The eclipse’s path of totality created a exogenous temporary…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 25-013 // 2025

    The Effect of Taxes on CEO Performance

    In this paper, we investigate the effect of higher personal income taxes on CEO and firm performance in publicly traded US firms. In response to higher taxes on compensation, CEOs are less likely to reach…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 25-012 // 2025

    Narratives About Fiscal Policy: Are Firm Decision-Makers’ Tax Preferences Driven by Redistribution or Fiscal Consolidation Motives?

    Motivated by the increasing frequency with which business leaders publicly express their views on policy issues and by recent findings on the role of narratives in shaping preferences and behaviors, we…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 25-011 // 2025

    Taxes and Pay Without Performance: Evidence From Executives

    This paper contributes to the ongoing discourse on the taxation of top-income earners by empirically investigating the impact of tax policy changes on pay without performance. Using data on executive…

  6. #ZEWPodcast // 2025

    Deutschland hat die Wahl: Was sagen die Wahlprogramme?

    Deutschland hat die Wahl. Am 23. Februar wird ein neuer Bundestag gewählt. Alle Parteien machen Vorschläge und stellen Programme auf, was sie nach der Wahl umsetzen möchten – sollten sie an die Regierung kommen.…