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Reiner Eichenberger

Reiner Eichenberger

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Political Science

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1171
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Overview

Reiner Eichenberger is affiliated with the University of Fribourg in Switzerland and specializes in social sciences. Their research primarily spans political science and international relations, sociology and political science, gender studies, health, and strategy and management. The breadth of their work includes investigations into vaccine coverage and hesitancy, electoral systems and political participation, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, social policy and reform studies, gender politics and representation, and migration, refugees, and integration.

The scientist has published extensively with 28 works categorized under social sciences. Among these, 10 publications focus on political science and international relations, 7 on sociology and political science, 6 on gender studies, 4 on health, and 4 on strategy and management. The main topics covered include:

  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • COVID-19 Epidemiological Studies
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Gender Politics and Representation
  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration

The scientist has published in a variety of venues, with a notable presence in Kyklos, where five papers have appeared. Other frequent publication venues include WiSt - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium with three papers, Scientific Reports, The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, and the Journal of Comparative Economics.

Selected recent papers include:

  • Certified Coronavirus Immunity as a Resource and Strategy to Cope with Pandemic Costs (2020), published in Kyklos
  • Scientists have favorable opinions on immunity certificates but raise concerns regarding fairness and inequality (2021), Scientific Reports
  • Worsening workers' health by lowering retirement age: The malign consequences of a benign reform (2020), The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
  • Enfranchising non-citizens: What drives natives' willingness to share power? (2021), Journal of Comparative Economics
  • Sanctions are Costly for Citizens but Beneficial for Autocrats: A Political-Economic Perspective (2022), The Economists Voice

Reiner Eichenberger has collaborated frequently with other researchers. Among the most frequent co-authors are David Stadelmann, with 17 joint publications; Bruno S. Frey, with 6; Rainer Hegselmann, Patricia Schafer, and Marco Portmann, each contributing to 4 joint works.

Best Publications

  • The Old Lady Visits Your Backyard: A Tale of Morals and Markets

    Bruno S. Frey;Felix Oberholzer-Gee;Reiner Eichenberger

  • The New Democratic Federalism for Europe: Functional, Overlapping, and Competing Jurisdictions

    Bruno S. Frey;Reiner Eichenberger

  • FOCJ: Competitive governments for Europe

    Bruno S. Frey;Reiner Eichenberger

  • American and European Economics and Economists

    Bruno S. Frey;Reiner Eichenberger

  • To harmonize or to compete? That's not the question

    Bruno S. Frey;Reiner Eichenberger

  • On the return of art investment return analyses.

    Bruno S. Frey;Reiner Eichenberger

  • On the rate of return in the art market: Survey and evaluation

    Bruno S. Frey;Reiner Eichenberger

  • The Benefits of Federalism and the Risk of Overcentralization

    Reiner Eichenberger

  • Rational moralists: The role of fairness in democratic economic politics

    Reiner Eichenberger;Felix Oberholzer-Gee

  • Competition among Jurisdictions: The Idea of FOCJ

    Bruno S. Frey;Reiner Eichenberger

  • Economic incentives transform psychological anomalies

    Bruno S. Frey;Reiner Eichenberger

  • Economics and Economists: A European Perspective

    Bruno S. Frey;Reiner Eichenberger

  • Europe's Eminent Economists: A Quantitative Analysis

    Reiner Eichenberger;Bruno S Frey

  • Random errors, dirty information, and politics

    Reiner Eichenberger;Angel Serna

  • Anomalies in Political Economy

    Bruno S. Frey;Reiner Eichenberger

  • The political economy of stabilization programmes in developing countries

    Bruno S. Frey;Reiner Eichenberger

  • A Proposal for a Flexible Europe

    Bruno S. Frey;Reiner Eichenberger

  • District magnitude and representation of the majority’s preferences: Evidence from popular and parliamentary votes

    Marco Portmann;David Stadelmann;Reiner Eichenberger

  • Fairness in Extended Dictator-Game Experiments

    Felix Oberholzer-Gee;Reiner Eichenberger

  • Quantifying parliamentary representation of constituents’ preferences with quasi-experimental data

    David Stadelmann;Marco Portmann;Reiner Eichenberger

  • Auditors and fiscal policy: Empirical evidence on a little big institution

    Mark Schelker;Reiner Eichenberger

  • Independent and competing agencies: An effective way to control government

    Reiner Eichenberger;Mark Schelker

  • FUNCTIONAL, OVERLAPPING AND COMPETING JOURISDICTIONS (FOCJ): A COMPLEMENT AND ALTERNATIVE TO TODAY'S FEDERALISM

    Reiner Eichenberger;Bruno S. Frey

  • Rules and Reason: A Proposal for Dynamic European Federalism: FOCJ

    Bruno S. Frey;Reiner Eichenberger

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruno S. Frey
Bruno S. Frey University of Basel
Benno Torgler
Benno Torgler Queensland University of Technology
Martin Paldam
Martin Paldam Aarhus University
Harald Walach
Harald Walach European University Viadrina
Alois Stutzer
Alois Stutzer University of Basel
Peter Zweifel
Peter Zweifel University of Zurich
Robert S. Chirinko
Robert S. Chirinko University of Illinois at Chicago
Jakob de Haan
Jakob de Haan University of Groningen
Lars P. Feld
Lars P. Feld Walter Eucken Institut
Lorenz Goette
Lorenz Goette National University of Singapore

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