Tim Krieger
Biographic Data
| ID | 1143705 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tim Krieger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tim |
| FAMILY NAME | Krieger |
| SIGNATURE | KRIEGER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Freiburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0045-9172 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 142 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Cambridge Handbook on the Economics of Terrorism
Since the turn of the century, few issues have shaped political debate and policy-making more than terrorism. As a result, there has been a huge increase in the amount of academic research devoted to investigating the causes and consequences of terrorism. The Cambridge Handbook on the Economics of Terrorism is the first to present a state-of-the art survey of the economics of terrorism. It adopts a rational-choice perspective according to which t…
New directions in research on ordoliberalism
Inequality, life expectancy, and the alienation effect: Insights from a real-effort experiment on the intragenerational redistribution puzzle
In most OECD countries, pension reform policy has decreased the level of intragenerational redistribution in the public pension system over the last three decades, that is, redistribution among members of the same generation with high and low pension entitlements. This trend has occurred despite heterogeneity in life expectancy linked to socioeconomic status having a regressive impact on outcomes. We propose a model that explains this empirical p…
Paying Them to Hate US: The Effect of US Military Aid on Anti-American Terrorism, 1968–2018
How does anti-American terrorism in recipient countries respond to US military aid? Does aid protect United States interests abroad or does it have unintended consequences for US security? To answer these questions, we estimate the effect of US military aid on anti-American terrorism in recipient countries for a sample of 174 countries between 1968 and 2018. We find that higher levels of aid especially for military financing and education are ass…
Polygyny, Conflict and Gender Inequality: A Cautionary Tale
What is the role of polygyny and gender inequality in explaining violent conflict? Do these variables have distinct effects only or are they also mutually reinforcing? Our paper investigates this controversial question by providing theoretical arguments as well as empirical evidence for direct and combined effects of these two variables on small-scale violent conflict. Our analysis is based on data from 123 countries in the 1981–2011 period. Our …
The ideological use and abuse of Freiburg’s ordoliberalism
In the aftermath of the Eurozone crisis, a battle of ideas emerged over whether ordoliberalism is part of the cause or the solution of economic problems in Europe. While German ordoliberals argued that their policy proposals were largely ignored before, during and after the crisis, critics saw too much ordoliberal influence, especially in form of austerity policies. We argue that neither view is entirely correct. Instead, we observe that the batt…
The renaissance of ordoliberalism in the 1970s and 1980s
The economic tradition of ordoliberalism , understood as the theoretical and policy ideas of the Freiburg School, emerged in 1930s and 1940s Germany. In the years thereafter, it was quickly superseded by Keynesianism and other theories imported from the English-speaking world. The crisis in Keynesian economics in the mid-1970s led to what has been described as a “renaissance of ordoliberal reasoning” (Gebhard Kirchgässner) during the late 1970s a…
Die Rückkehr der Imperien? Putins Krieg und seine globalen Implikationen
Measuring intra-generational redistribution in Payg pension schemes
Voters in ageing societies expect pension reforms to be both inter-generationally and intra-generationally fair. In this paper, we propose a global measure of intra-generational redistribution in pay-as-you-go pension schemes as a basis for voters’ evaluations of reforms. Our novel index only requires information on contributions by and pension benefits paid to retirees, enabling us to measure intra-generational redistribution isolated from possi…
Environmental Conflicts, Migration and Governance
The current era of globalization is characterized by a high degree of interconnectedness across borders and continents. This not only goes hand in hand with significant levels of international trade and foreign direct investments but also with migration, which is all too often driven by conflicts of various kinds. While various interdependencies between conflict and migration have been explored in the literature, a link that is not yet sufficient…
Environmental Conflicts, Migration and Governance
The globalized era is characterized by a high degree of interconnectedness across borders and continents and this includes human migration. Migration flows have led to new governance challenges and, at times, populist political backlashes. A key driver of migration is environmental conflict and this is only likely to increase with the effects of climate change. Bringing together world-leading researchers from across political science, environment…
Population size and the size of government
The role of relocation mobility in tax and subsidy competition
Ordoliberalism and European Economic Policy: Between Realpolitik and Economic Utopia
Income inequality, redistribution and domestic terrorism
Ordoliberalism is not Responsible for Jihadist Terrorism in Europe: A Reply to Johan Van Der Walt
Competition for the international pool of talent
Great Expectations and Hard Times: The (Nontrivial) Impact of Education on Domestic Terrorism
This contribution investigates the role of education in domestic terrorism for 133 countries between 1984 and 2007. The findings point to a nontrivial effect of education on terrorism. Lower education tends to promote terrorism in a cluster of countries where socioeconomic, political, and demographic conditions are unfavorable, while higher education reduces terrorism in a cluster of countries where conditions are more favorable. This suggests th…
The rise of capitalism and the roots of anti-American terrorism
This contribution examines the role of capitalism in anti-American terrorism. It uses two theoretical frameworks, both of which contrast the pacifying effects of higher levels of capitalist development with the potentially destabilizing effects of a transition towards capitalism, but differ with respect to their definition of capitalism, capitalism's interaction with anti-American terrorism, and its empirical operationalization. Using panel data …
Honey, I shrunk the kids’ benefits—revisiting intergenerational conflict in OECD countries
What causes terrorism
Terrorism in the Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
This contribution argues that social policies ameliorate poor short-run and long-run socioeconomic conditions (e.g., unemployment, poverty, inequality, and dissatisfaction), thereby indirectly reducing terrorist activity. The authors empirically assess the influence of social policies (indicated by social spending and welfare regime variables) on homegrown terrorism for fifteen Western European countries during the 1980—2003 period. The authors f…
Public pensions and return migration
Fertility rates and skill distribution in Razin and Sadka?s migration-pension model: A note
Voting on Low-Skill Immigration under Different Pension Regimes
What causes terrorism
Great Expectations and Hard Times: The (Nontrivial) Impact of Education on Domestic Terrorism
This contribution investigates the role of education in domestic terrorism for 133 countries between 1984 and 2007. The findings point to a nontrivial effect of education on terrorism. Lower education tends to promote terrorism in a cluster of countries where socioeconomic, political, and demographic conditions are unfavorable, while higher education reduces terrorism in a cluster of countries where conditions are more favorable. This suggests th…
Terrorism in the Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
This contribution argues that social policies ameliorate poor short-run and long-run socioeconomic conditions (e.g., unemployment, poverty, inequality, and dissatisfaction), thereby indirectly reducing terrorist activity. The authors empirically assess the influence of social policies (indicated by social spending and welfare regime variables) on homegrown terrorism for fifteen Western European countries during the 1980—2003 period. The authors f…
Income inequality, redistribution and domestic terrorism
Fertility rates and skill distribution in Razin and Sadka?s migration-pension model: A note
The rise of capitalism and the roots of anti-American terrorism
This contribution examines the role of capitalism in anti-American terrorism. It uses two theoretical frameworks, both of which contrast the pacifying effects of higher levels of capitalist development with the potentially destabilizing effects of a transition towards capitalism, but differ with respect to their definition of capitalism, capitalism's interaction with anti-American terrorism, and its empirical operationalization. Using panel data …
Voting on Low-Skill Immigration under Different Pension Regimes
Honey, I shrunk the kids’ benefits—revisiting intergenerational conflict in OECD countries
Public pensions and return migration
The renaissance of ordoliberalism in the 1970s and 1980s
The economic tradition of ordoliberalism , understood as the theoretical and policy ideas of the Freiburg School, emerged in 1930s and 1940s Germany. In the years thereafter, it was quickly superseded by Keynesianism and other theories imported from the English-speaking world. The crisis in Keynesian economics in the mid-1970s led to what has been described as a “renaissance of ordoliberal reasoning” (Gebhard Kirchgässner) during the late 1970s a…
New directions in research on ordoliberalism
Paying Them to Hate US: The Effect of US Military Aid on Anti-American Terrorism, 1968–2018
How does anti-American terrorism in recipient countries respond to US military aid? Does aid protect United States interests abroad or does it have unintended consequences for US security? To answer these questions, we estimate the effect of US military aid on anti-American terrorism in recipient countries for a sample of 174 countries between 1968 and 2018. We find that higher levels of aid especially for military financing and education are ass…
The ideological use and abuse of Freiburg’s ordoliberalism
In the aftermath of the Eurozone crisis, a battle of ideas emerged over whether ordoliberalism is part of the cause or the solution of economic problems in Europe. While German ordoliberals argued that their policy proposals were largely ignored before, during and after the crisis, critics saw too much ordoliberal influence, especially in form of austerity policies. We argue that neither view is entirely correct. Instead, we observe that the batt…
Ordoliberalism is not Responsible for Jihadist Terrorism in Europe: A Reply to Johan Van Der Walt
Competition for the international pool of talent
Intergenerational Redistribution and Labor Mobility: A Survey
Increasing labor mobility has an impact on all redistributive policy measures undertaken by national governments. This paper focuses on intergenerational redistribution, in particular PAYG financed public pension systems, and surveys some of the recent literature on this topic. One part of the literature chooses the perspective of a single country and investigates how labor mobility affects voting outcomes and the welfare of certain groups in soc…
Voting on Low-Skill Immigration under Different Pension Regimes
Fertility rates and skill distribution in Razin and Sadka?s migration-pension model: A note
Public pensions and return migration
Terrorism in the Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
This contribution argues that social policies ameliorate poor short-run and long-run socioeconomic conditions (e.g., unemployment, poverty, inequality, and dissatisfaction), thereby indirectly reducing terrorist activity. The authors empirically assess the influence of social policies (indicated by social spending and welfare regime variables) on homegrown terrorism for fifteen Western European countries during the 1980—2003 period. The authors f…
What causes terrorism
Honey, I shrunk the kids’ benefits—revisiting intergenerational conflict in OECD countries
Great Expectations and Hard Times: The (Nontrivial) Impact of Education on Domestic Terrorism
This contribution investigates the role of education in domestic terrorism for 133 countries between 1984 and 2007. The findings point to a nontrivial effect of education on terrorism. Lower education tends to promote terrorism in a cluster of countries where socioeconomic, political, and demographic conditions are unfavorable, while higher education reduces terrorism in a cluster of countries where conditions are more favorable. This suggests th…
The rise of capitalism and the roots of anti-American terrorism
This contribution examines the role of capitalism in anti-American terrorism. It uses two theoretical frameworks, both of which contrast the pacifying effects of higher levels of capitalist development with the potentially destabilizing effects of a transition towards capitalism, but differ with respect to their definition of capitalism, capitalism's interaction with anti-American terrorism, and its empirical operationalization. Using panel data …
Competition for the international pool of talent
Ordoliberalism is not Responsible for Jihadist Terrorism in Europe: A Reply to Johan Van Der Walt
Ordoliberalism and European Economic Policy: Between Realpolitik and Economic Utopia
Income inequality, redistribution and domestic terrorism
Environmental Conflicts, Migration and Governance
The current era of globalization is characterized by a high degree of interconnectedness across borders and continents. This not only goes hand in hand with significant levels of international trade and foreign direct investments but also with migration, which is all too often driven by conflicts of various kinds. While various interdependencies between conflict and migration have been explored in the literature, a link that is not yet sufficient…
Environmental Conflicts, Migration and Governance
The globalized era is characterized by a high degree of interconnectedness across borders and continents and this includes human migration. Migration flows have led to new governance challenges and, at times, populist political backlashes. A key driver of migration is environmental conflict and this is only likely to increase with the effects of climate change. Bringing together world-leading researchers from across political science, environment…
Population size and the size of government
The role of relocation mobility in tax and subsidy competition
Die Rückkehr der Imperien? Putins Krieg und seine globalen Implikationen
Measuring intra-generational redistribution in Payg pension schemes
Voters in ageing societies expect pension reforms to be both inter-generationally and intra-generationally fair. In this paper, we propose a global measure of intra-generational redistribution in pay-as-you-go pension schemes as a basis for voters’ evaluations of reforms. Our novel index only requires information on contributions by and pension benefits paid to retirees, enabling us to measure intra-generational redistribution isolated from possi…
Polygyny, Conflict and Gender Inequality: A Cautionary Tale
What is the role of polygyny and gender inequality in explaining violent conflict? Do these variables have distinct effects only or are they also mutually reinforcing? Our paper investigates this controversial question by providing theoretical arguments as well as empirical evidence for direct and combined effects of these two variables on small-scale violent conflict. Our analysis is based on data from 123 countries in the 1981–2011 period. Our …
The ideological use and abuse of Freiburg’s ordoliberalism
In the aftermath of the Eurozone crisis, a battle of ideas emerged over whether ordoliberalism is part of the cause or the solution of economic problems in Europe. While German ordoliberals argued that their policy proposals were largely ignored before, during and after the crisis, critics saw too much ordoliberal influence, especially in form of austerity policies. We argue that neither view is entirely correct. Instead, we observe that the batt…
The renaissance of ordoliberalism in the 1970s and 1980s
The economic tradition of ordoliberalism , understood as the theoretical and policy ideas of the Freiburg School, emerged in 1930s and 1940s Germany. In the years thereafter, it was quickly superseded by Keynesianism and other theories imported from the English-speaking world. The crisis in Keynesian economics in the mid-1970s led to what has been described as a “renaissance of ordoliberal reasoning” (Gebhard Kirchgässner) during the late 1970s a…
Paying Them to Hate US: The Effect of US Military Aid on Anti-American Terrorism, 1968–2018
How does anti-American terrorism in recipient countries respond to US military aid? Does aid protect United States interests abroad or does it have unintended consequences for US security? To answer these questions, we estimate the effect of US military aid on anti-American terrorism in recipient countries for a sample of 174 countries between 1968 and 2018. We find that higher levels of aid especially for military financing and education are ass…
New directions in research on ordoliberalism
Inequality, life expectancy, and the alienation effect: Insights from a real-effort experiment on the intragenerational redistribution puzzle
In most OECD countries, pension reform policy has decreased the level of intragenerational redistribution in the public pension system over the last three decades, that is, redistribution among members of the same generation with high and low pension entitlements. This trend has occurred despite heterogeneity in life expectancy linked to socioeconomic status having a regressive impact on outcomes. We propose a model that explains this empirical p…
Economics (21 works) · Political science (21 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Demographic economics (9 works) · Labour economics (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Terrorism (8 works) · Development economics (7 works) · Law (7 works)