Jan Schnellenbach

BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Economics, Chair for Microeconomics

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Walter Eucken Institute

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  • BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Economics, Chair for Microeconomics

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Behavioral Political Economy: A Survey

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Behavioral Political Economy: A Survey

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 4988
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 09 Oct 2014
Jan Schnellenbach and Christian Schubert
BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Economics, Chair for Microeconomics and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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behavioral political economy, behavioral economics, rational irrationality, cognitive biases, social norms, voting, paternalism

Behavioral Political Economy: A Survey

European Journal of Political Economy, Forthcoming
Posted: 05 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 25 Apr 2015
Jan Schnellenbach and Christian Schubert
BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Economics, Chair for Microeconomics and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Behavioral Political Economy; Behavioral Economics; Rational Irrationality; Cognitive Biases; Social Norms; Voting; Paternalism.

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What Do We Know About Geographical Knowledge Spillovers and Regional Growth? A Survey of the Literature

Regional Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 06 Jul 2005
Thomas Döring and Jan Schnellenbach
University of Kassel and BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Economics, Chair for Microeconomics
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Knowledge spillovers, regional growth, research and development, innovation, diffusion of innovations

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On the Behavioural Political Economy of Regulating Fake News

Ordo – Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 20 Sep 2017
Jan Schnellenbach
BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Economics, Chair for Microeconomics
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Fake News, Media Bias, Paternalism, Media Regulation

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Public Entrepreneurship and the Economics of Reform

Journal of Institutional Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 30 May 2006
Jan Schnellenbach
BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Economics, Chair for Microeconomics
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public entrepreneurship, political innovation, reform processes

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Inequality and Happiness: When Perceived Social Mobility and Economic Reality Do Not Match

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Inequality and Happiness: When Perceived Social Mobility and Economic Reality Do Not Match

CEIS Working Paper No. 173
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 08 Nov 2010
Christian Bjørnskov, Axel Dreher, Justina A. V. Fischer and Jan Schnellenbach
Aarhus University - Department of Economics and Business, Heidelberg University, Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) and BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Economics, Chair for Microeconomics
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Happiness, Life Satisfaction, Subjective Well-Being, Inequality, Income Distribution, Redistribution, Political Ideology, Justice, Fairness, World Values Survey

Inequality and Happiness: When Perceived Social Mobility and Economic Reality do not Match

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 3216
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 25 Oct 2010
Christian Bjørnskov, Axel Dreher, Justina A. V. Fischer and Jan Schnellenbach
Aarhus University - Department of Economics and Business, Heidelberg University, Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) and BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Economics, Chair for Microeconomics
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happiness, life satisfaction, subjective well-being, inequality, income distribution, redistribution, political ideology, justice, fairness, World Values Survey

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Fiscal Federalism, Decentralization and Economic Growth: Survey and Meta-Analysis

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 4985
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 09 Oct 2014
Thushyanthan Baskaran, Lars P. Feld and Jan Schnellenbach
University of Goettingen (Gottingen), Walter Eucken Institute and BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Economics, Chair for Microeconomics
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fiscal federalism, fiscal competition, economic growth, meta-analysis

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Tax Morale and the Legitimacy of Economic Policy

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 08 Jul 2005
Jan Schnellenbach
BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Economics, Chair for Microeconomics
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Tax evasion, tax morale, economics and psychology, political legitimacy

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Fiscal Federalism and Long-Run Macroeconomic Performance: A Survey of Recent Research

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 07 Mar 2010
Lars P. Feld and Jan Schnellenbach
Walter Eucken Institute and BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Economics, Chair for Microeconomics
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Fiscal Federalism, Fiscal Competition, Economic Growth, Economic Performance

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On the Relation between Income Inequality and Happiness: Do Fairness Perceptions Matter?

CEGE Discussions Paper No. 91
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 10 Jan 2010
Christian Bjørnskov, Axel Dreher, Justina A. V. Fischer and Jan Schnellenbach
Aarhus University - Department of Economics and Business, Heidelberg University, Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) and BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Economics, Chair for Microeconomics
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Happiness, life satisfaction, subjective well-being, inequality, income distribution, redistribution, political ideology, justice, fairness, World Values Survey

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Some Notes on the Nudge: The Political Economy of Libertarian Paternalism in Democratic Societies

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 31 May 2011
Jan Schnellenbach
BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Economics, Chair for Microeconomics
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libertarian paternalism, soft paternalism, social norms, informal institutions, behavioral political economics, expressive behavior

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Appeasing Nihilists? Some Economic Thoughts on Reducing Terrorist Activity

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Appeasing Nihilists? Some Economic Thoughts on Reducing Terrorist Activity

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 21 May 2005
Jan Schnellenbach
BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Economics, Chair for Microeconomics
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terrorism, deterrence, reciprocity, anti-terrorism policies

Appeasing Nihilists? Some Economic Thoughts on Reducing Terrorist Activity

Public Choice, Forthcoming
Posted: 30 May 2006
Jan Schnellenbach
BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Economics, Chair for Microeconomics

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terrorism, deterrence, reciprocity, anti-terrorism policies

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A Constitutional Economics Perspective on Soft Paternalism

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A Constitutional Economics Perspective on Soft Paternalism

Kyklos, Forthcoming.
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 23 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 25 Oct 2015
Jan Schnellenbach
BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Economics, Chair for Microeconomics
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nudge, biases, autonomy, consumer sovereignty, reflective preferences, behavioural policies

A Constitutional Economics Perspective on Soft Paternalism

Kyklos, Vol. 69, Issue 1, pp. 135-156, 2016
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 26 Jan 2016
Jan Schnellenbach
BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Economics, Chair for Microeconomics
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Tax Morale and the Taming of Leviathan

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Tax Morale and the Taming of Leviathan

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 08 Jul 2005
Jan Schnellenbach
BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Economics, Chair for Microeconomics
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Tax evasion, tax morale, cognitive dissonance, informal institutions

Tax Morale and the Taming of Leviathan

Constitutional Political Economy, Vol. 17, 2006
Posted: 24 Apr 2006
Jan Schnellenbach
BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Economics, Chair for Microeconomics

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Tax evasion, tax morale, cognitive dissonance, informal institutions

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Inequality and Happiness: When Perceived Social Mobility and Economic Reality Do Not Match

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 91, 2013
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 30 Nov 2015
Christian Bjornskov, Axel Dreher, Justina A. V. Fischer, Jan Schnellenbach and Kai Gehring
Aarhus University, Heidelberg University, Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Economics, Chair for Microeconomics and University of Zurich - Chair of Political Economy
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Happiness, life satisfaction, subjective well-being, inequality, income distribution, redistribution, political ideology, justice, fairness, World Values Survey

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On Government Centralization and Fiscal Referendums: A Theoretical Model and Evidence from Switzerland

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 18 Aug 2005
Lars P. Feld, Christoph A. Schaltegger and Jan Schnellenbach
Walter Eucken Institute, University of St. Gallen - CREMA and BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Economics, Chair for Microeconomics
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Centralization, Fiscal Federalism, Fiscal Referendums

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Political Institutions and Income (Re-)Distribution: Evidence from Developed Economies

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 4382
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 04 Sep 2013
Lars P. Feld and Jan Schnellenbach
Walter Eucken Institute and BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Economics, Chair for Microeconomics
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redistribution, formal institutions, fiscal decentralization, presidential and parliamentary regimes, electoral systems

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The Impact of Referendums on the Centralisation of Public Goods Provision: A Political Economy Approach

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 1803
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 06 Oct 2006
Jan Schnellenbach, Lars P. Feld and Christoph A. Schaltegger
BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Economics, Chair for Microeconomics, Walter Eucken Institute and University of St. Gallen - CREMA
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centralisation, direct democracy, representative democracy, public good provision

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Rational Ignorance is Not Bliss: When do Lazy Voters Learn from Decentralised Policy Experiments?

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 01 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2008
Jan Schnellenbach
BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Economics, Chair for Microeconomics
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federalism, collective learning, model uncertainty, fiscal competition, herding behaviour

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Does Classical Liberalism Imply an Evolutionary Approach to Policy-Making?

Journal of Bioeconomics, Forthcoming, Freiburg Discussion papers on Constitutional Economics No. 14/07
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 08 Sep 2014
Jan Schnellenbach
BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Economics, Chair for Microeconomics
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classical liberalism, evolution, Darwinism, economic policy, cultural evolution, institutional evolution

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Evolving Hierarchical Preferences and Behavioral Economic Policies

Public Choice, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 05 Oct 2018
Jan Schnellenbach
BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Economics, Chair for Microeconomics
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Hierarchical Preferences, Multiple Selves, Internalities, Behavioral Policies, Paternalism, Nudge

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On the Relation between Income Inequality and Happiness: Do Fairness Perceptions Matter

KOF Working Paper No. 245, KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 27 Dec 2009
Christian Bjørnskov, Axel Dreher, Justina A. V. Fischer and Jan Schnellenbach
Aarhus University - Department of Economics and Business, Heidelberg University, Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) and BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Economics, Chair for Microeconomics
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happiness, life satisfaction, subjective well-being, inequality, income distribution, redistribution, political ideology, justice, fairness, World Values Survey

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Fiscal Federalism, Decentralization, and Economic Growth: A Meta‐Analysis

Economic Inquiry, Vol. 54, Issue 3, pp. 1445-1463, 2016
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 10 May 2016
Thushyanthan Baskaran, Lars P. Feld and Jan Schnellenbach
University of Goettingen (Gottingen), Walter Eucken Institute and BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Economics, Chair for Microeconomics
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The Economics of Taxing Net Wealth: A Survey of the Issues

Public Finance and Management 12(4) 2012
Posted: 28 Nov 2012
Jan Schnellenbach
BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Economics, Chair for Microeconomics

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net wealth tax, inequality, redistribution, equity

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A Tale of Two Federalisms: Long-Term Institutional Change in the United States and in Germany

Constitutional Political Economy, Forthcoming
Posted: 03 Nov 2010
Jan Schnellenbach and Thomas Döring
BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Economics, Chair for Microeconomics and University of Kassel

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Federalism, Government Centralization, State and Local Autonomy, Bryce Law, Popitz Law, Institutional Evolution

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The Dahrendorf Hypothesis and its Implications for (the Theory of) Economic Policy-Making

Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 29, Issue 6, pp. 997-1009, 2005
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
Jan Schnellenbach
BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Economics, Chair for Microeconomics

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Diversity, Evolutionary political economy, Economic policy-making

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The Dahrendorf Hypothesis and its Implications for the Theory of Economic Policy

Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 29, 2005
Posted: 21 Apr 2006
Jan Schnellenbach
BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Economics, Chair for Microeconomics

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Diversity, Evolutionary political economy, Economic policy-making

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Model Uncertainty and the Rationality of Economic Policy: An Evolutionary Approach

Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Vol. 15, pp. 101-116, March 2005
Posted: 06 Jul 2005
Jan Schnellenbach
BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Economics, Chair for Microeconomics

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Economic policy, model uncertainty, collective beliefs, collective learning

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The Evolution of a Fiscal Constitution When Individuals are Theoretically Uncertain

European Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 17, pp. 97-116, January 2004
Posted: 06 Jul 2005
Jan Schnellenbach
BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute for Economics, Chair for Microeconomics

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Positive constitutional economics, collective learning, path-dependence, rule-evolution