Arbeitspapier

Attitudes towards Euro Area Reforms: Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment

We present the first evidence on public attitudes towards two prominent euro area reform proposals (European Unemployment Benefit Scheme and Sovereign Insolvency Procedure) and assess potential impediments to their implementation by means of a randomized survey experiment in Germany. We find that there is a low willingness among German voters to accept fiscal risk-sharing through common unemployment insurance, while a sovereign insolvency procedure aimed at strengthening market discipline is supported by a majority of the electorate. Our randomized treatments confronting survey participants with potential adverse effects of the reforms lead to significant downward shifts in approval rates. Altruism, cosmopolitanism, political preference and income are important predictors of support for the reform proposals. We also show that there is a striking contrast between the low level of support for transfers to other euro area member states and a broad acceptance of inner German transfers.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: EconPol Working Paper ; No. 11

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Dolls, Mathias
Wehrhofer, Nils
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2018

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Dolls, Mathias
  • Wehrhofer, Nils
  • ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich

Entstanden

  • 2018

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