Award for Best Paper on Bureaucracy 2016

My colleagues and I want to thank the Cologne Institute for Economic Research for this year's award for the best published paper on the topic of bureaucracy. Our paper has attempted to measure the extent of rule growth across 23 OECD countries in the areas of environmental and social policy over a period of 30 years. We find that those countries which are perceived to have rather weak executives and administrative structures have been subjected to a particularly strong growth of rules in this area. This is potentially worrisome as it raises of question of whether this will not give rise to systematically expanding implementation deficits.

We congratulate Niels Hegewisch with whom we share the price and, of course, thank the jury which included Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Martin Hellwig, Prof. Dr. Michael Hüther, Dr. Johannes Ludewig, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Renate Mayntz, and Prof. Dr. Daniel Zimmer. Finally, we thank the organizers for a great award ceremony as well as Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Paul Kirchhof for an inspirational keynote speech.

If you are interested in the paper, please write me an e-mail or use this link:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11077-016-9265-x

An interview with me in the iwd (in German) is available here:
https://www.iwd.de/artikel/die-alternative-waere-stillstand-342893/

And the respective press release can be found here:
link to pdf