Mathias Dolls
@mathiasdolls.bsky.social
Economist, Deputy Director of @ifo_Institut Center for Macroeconomics and Surveys, Interests: Public Econ | Labor markets | Econ Policy. Views my own. https://sites.google.com/view/mathiasdolls/
Steven Davis, Cevat Giray Aksoy, Jose Maria Barrero, @nickbloom.bsky.social, Katelyn Cranney, @mathiasdolls.bsky.social, & Pablo Zarate find that both planned and realised fertility are higher among adults who work from home at least one day a week. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky
Data from 21 European countries show the progressivity of personal income tax systems gives rise to large tax-to-base elasticities, implying substantial potential for fiscal drag @mathiasdolls.bsky.social, M Freier, @estebangmiralles.bsky.social, A Mazzon, S Riscado cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky
Working Paper! 📢 “How Does Information About Inequalities Affect Fairness Views and Policy Preferences? Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment” ✍️Julia Baarck @mathiasdolls.bsky.social @lisawindsteiger.bsky.social Find out more in the latest CESifo Working Paper! 🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...
Speaking of debt: Framing, guilt, and economic choices online at @voxeu.org @cepr.org @mathiasdolls.bsky.social @lisawindsteiger.bsky.social cepr.org/voxeu/column...
Speaking of debt: Framing, guilt, and economic choices
In many Germanic languages, the word for ‘debt’ also means ‘guilt’. This column explores whether the linguistic overlap leads to greater debt aversion in Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Switzerland. Using a guilt-laden term reduces willingness to borrow, lowers approval for government debt, and influences firms’ financing plans and politicians’ framing of fiscal policy. While support for public debt goes down with use of the laden term, the effect disappears when the purpose of the debt is clear. Linguistic framing may help guide borrowing toward socially optimal levels.
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Pleased to share collaborative research with the ESCB Network of Microsimulation Modelling: “Fiscal drag in theory and practice – a European perspective.” Now available as ECB Working Paper: www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpw... (1/2)
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Approval of Government Debt in Germany Rises When the Term “Kredite” Is Used Instead of “Schulden” Press release on our new @cesifo.org WP w @mathiasdolls.bsky.social @lisawindsteiger.bsky.social + Cevat & Justyna: www.ifo.de/en/press-rel...
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Words matter! Change the language about debt → change how people think, feel, and choose. Our new paper featured in the @faznet.bsky.social : zeitung.faz.net/fas/wirtscha... Full paper (with C. Aksoy, J. Klejdysz, @apeichl.bsky.social, @lisawindsteiger.bsky.social): www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...
Schuld und Schulden
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I very much enjoyed attending the inspiring International Research Workshop on Perceptions of Inequality at @lseinequalities.bsky.social. I presented my paper "How Do Perceptions of Inequalities Affect Fairness Views and Political Preferences? Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment" (1/2)
Lesenswerter Beitrag in der morgigen FAS über unsere kürzlich veröffentlichte Studie, in der wir untersuchen, warum die Einschätzungen in der Bevölkerung zu Mietpreiskontrollen so stark von jenen in unserer Profession abweichen (1/2): zeitung.faz.net/fas/wirtscha...
Geliebter Mietendeckel
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Unser paper "Which factors affect public support for economic policies? Evidence from a survey experiment about rent control in Germany" (mit @pschuele.bsky.social und @lisawindsteiger.bsky.social) ist in Economica veröffentlicht: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (1/n)
Which factors affect public support for economic policies? Evidence from a survey experiment about rent control in Germany
We conduct a survey experiment among 18,000 respondents in Germany to examine the determinants of support for rent control policies. We find that highlighting undesirable price and supply effects low....
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Great piece in The Economist covering our latest research on Working from Home. Despite much coverage of return-to-office mandates put out by large firms, work from home arrangements have been stable since 2023. www.economist.com/finance-and-...
Unlike everyone else, Americans and Britons still shun the office
What is their love of working from home doing to their economies?
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What a blast! We had a wonderful, inspiring & FUN 3rd Annual Conference at ifo Fürth 🤩🤓 🥳 Fantastic keynotes by Massimo Morelli, @johannarickne.bsky.social & @michelebelot.bsky.social as well as many many great presentations and very nice poster session 🚀
Henning Hermes@henninghermes.com · last yr.The #ifoFürth Annual Conference 2025 is officially underway! We dive deep into #SocialMarketEconomy and evidence-based policy-making. Today = Day 1, we we’re lucky enough to listen to TWO keynotes, one by Massimo Morelli and one by @johannarickne.bsky.social 🤩🤩💪🏻🚀 @cesifo.org
It was a great honor and pleasure to give the keynote lecture at the First Workshop of the ESCB Network of Microsimulation Modelling at the Banco de Portugal! Many thanks to the organizers for inviting me and for putting together such a great program! www.bportugal.pt/evento/first...
EU econ bubble: We are hiring a senior expert on EU economic policy. All the details in the thread and the link, spread the word!
Lucas Guttenberg@lucasguttenberg.bsky.social · 2y agoDu wartest auf einen Bericht von Draghi wie andere auf ein Album von Taylor Swift? Du fragst dich schon lange, ob IPCEI jetzt mit "k" oder mit "s" ausgesprochen wird? Dann haben wir was für dich: Wir suchen ein:e Senior Expert:in EU Economic Policy! jobsearch.createyourowncareer.com/BertelsmannS...
I'm delighted to share that our paper 'Who bears the burden of real estate transfer taxes? Evidence from the German housing market' (with @clemensfuest.bsky.social, @ckrolage.bsky.social and Florian Neumeier) has been published in the Journal of Urban Economics. (1/3)
Great workshop in Salzburg for the next two days👇. I very much appreciate the opportunity to present a project on the new digital pension planning tool at an early stage!
Henning Hermes@henninghermes.com · 2y agoVery much looking forward to the PLUS Econ workshop in #Salzburg for the next two days 🤩 I will present a brand-new field experiment on the causal effect of gender norms on mothers‘ personal attitudes and their labor supply 🤓 Also, a fantastic program, this will be fun 🥳🚀
Happy to share that my paper `An unemployment re-insurance scheme for the euro-zone? Stabilizing and redistributive effects’ has been published in the European Eco-nomic Review (1/3): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
An unemployment re-insurance scheme for the eurozone? Stabilizing and redistributive effects
This paper develops a decomposition framework to study the importance of different stabilization channels of an unemployment re-insurance scheme for t…
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Very cool to receive this e-mail from the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers: www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-...
The open letter from 400+ IZA fellows to the Deutsche Post Foundation in response to the new leadership announcement at IZA is online: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Joshua Goodman@joshua-goodman.com · 3y agoIf you're a senior male economist and would be interested in discussing the drafting of an open letter re the newly announced IZA leadership change, e-mail me. Female econs are rightly tired of the burden of such efforts falling on them.
Mit MDR Aktuell habe ich darüber gesprochen, wie deutsche Unternehmen die Produktivität im hybriden Homeoffice-Modell einschätzen und ob eine (vollständige) Rückkehr ins Büro zu erwarten ist. Hier zum Nachhören: www.mdr.de/mdr-aktuell-...
Mathias Dolls@mathiasdolls.bsky.social · 3y agoMajority of German companies does not believe in negative productivity effects of the hybrid working from home model. This is the result from the latest ifo Business Survey among 9,000 German companies in August: www.ifo.de/en/facts/202... #WFH #Productivity
Majority of German companies does not believe in negative productivity effects of the hybrid working from home model. This is the result from the latest ifo Business Survey among 9,000 German companies in August: www.ifo.de/en/facts/202... #WFH #Productivity
Majority of German Companies See Same Productivity from Working in the Office or from Home
Most German companies expect productivity to remain the same should their employees return from hybrid working to working solely in the office: 60.1% believe that employee productivity will remain the...
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Anlässlich der Aussage von Trigema-Chef Wolfgang Grupp, wer von zu Hause arbeiten könne sei unwichtig, habe ich mit NTV / RTL aktuell über das Thema Homeoffice gesprochen (mein Statement ab 1:10): www.n-tv.de/mediathek/vi...
Trigema-Chef ätzt gegen Homeoffice: Grupp: "Wer zu Hause arbeiten kann, ist unwichtig"
Als Maßnahme in der Corona-Pandemie ist es geblieben und für viele Arbeitnehmende gar nicht mehr wegzudenken: das Homeoffice. Nun schaltet sich Textilunternehmer und Trigema-Chef Wolfgang Grupp in d...
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Happy to share that our paper 'EU cohesion policy on the ground: Analyzing small-scale effects using satellite data' is accepted at Regional Science and Urban Economics: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...