Special issue: Evidence based policy making—selected papers of the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association.

The inherent complexity of policy decision-making structures may prevent the interface between science and policy from functioning smoothly and evidence-based policies from actually being implemented, even when the results are understood and accepted by political leaders. Given the medium-run perspective of their research question, the main findings suggest that a combination of demand-side and supply-side fiscal policy measures might be more efficient as purely demand-side policies as the former policy mix also increases potential and not only actual output. Special issue: Evidence based policy making - selected papers of the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association. [Extracted from the article]