Ruhr Economic Papers

RWI : Ruhr Economic Papers 2012

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Neumann, U.
Are My Neighbours Ageing Yet? Local Dimensions of Demographic Change in German Cities

Nr 318
Kunze, L.
Like Father, Like Son: Inheriting and Bequeathing

Nr 317
Messow, P.
Pricing Synthetic CDOs Using a Three Regime Random-Factor-Loading Model

Nr 316
Görlitz, K. und B. S. Grave
Wage Differentials by Field of Study – The Case of German University Graduates

Nr 315
Franke, J., C. Kanzow, W. Leininger und A. Schwartz
Lottery versus All-Pay Auction Contests – A Revenue Dominance Theorem

Nr 314
Procher, V. und C. Vance
Heterogeneity in the Correlates of Motorized and Non-Motorized Travel in Germany – The Intervening Role of Gender

Nr 313
Körner, T.
Board Accountability and Risk Taking in Banking – Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment

Nr 312
Bachmann, R. und D. Baumgarten
How Do the Unemployed Search for a Job? – Evidence from the EU Labour Force Survey

Nr 311
Engel, D., T. Mitze, R. Patuelli und J. Reinkowski
Does Cluster Policy Trigger R&D Activity? – Evidence from German Biotech Contests

Nr 310
Krämer, W. und P. Messow
Structural Change and Spurious Persistence in Stochastic Volatility

Nr 309
Frondel, M. und C. Vance
On Interaction Effects: The Case of Heckit and Two-Part Models

Nr 308
Özyurt, S. und T. Mitze
The Spatial Dimension of Trade- and FDI-driven Productivity Growth in Chinese Provinces – A Global Cointegration Approach

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Nr 307
Görlitz, K. und M. Tamm
Revisiting the Complementarity between Education and Training – The Role of Personality, Working Tasks and Firm Effects

Nr 306
Bensch, G. und J. Peters
Combating Deforestation? – Impacts of Improved Stove Dissemination on Charcoal Consumption in Urban Senegal

Nr 305
Bachmann, R. und M. Sinning
Decomposing the Ins and Outs of Cyclical Unemployment

Nr 304
Schmitz, H. und N. R. Ziebarth
In Absolute or Relative Terms? How Framing Prices Affects the Consumer Price Sensitivity of Health Plan Choice

Nr 303
Dobnik, F.
Energy Consumption and Economic Growth Revisited: Structural Breaks and Cross-section Dependence

Nr 302
Bauer, T. K., K. Lindenbaum, M. Stroka, S. Ahrens, R. Linder und F. Verheyen
Fall Risk Increasing Drugs: The Effect on Injuries of the Frail Elderly Estimated from Administrative Data

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Kitlinski, T. und T. Schmidt
The Forecasting Performance of an Estimated Medium Run Model

Nr 300
Paloyo, A.
When Did We Begin to Spell “Heteros*edasticity” Correctly?

Nr 299
Calahorrano, L. und P. an de Meulen
Demographics and Factor Flows – A Political Economy Approach

Nr 298
an de Meulen, P.
Labor Heterogeneity and the Risk of Expropriation in Less Developed Countries

Nr 297
Klemm, M.
You Don‘t Know what You‘ve got till It‘s Gone! Unemployment and Intertemporal Changes in Self-Reported Life Satisfaction

Nr 296
Jovanovic, M.
Financial Uncertainty in Germany and its Impact on Western European Terrorism

Nr 295
Ehlert, C. und S. Schaffner
Health Effects of Temporary Jobs in Europe

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an de Meulen, P., M. Micheli und T. Schmidt
Forecasting House Prices in Germany

Nr 293
Heufer, J.
The Washroom Game

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Cobb-Clark, D., M. Sinning und S. Stillman
Migrant Youths‘ Educational Achievement: The Role of Institutions

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Kröger, H. und S. Schaffner
The Intensive and Extensive Margin of European Labour Supply

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Paloyo, A., A. R. Reichert, H. Reinermann und H. Tauchmann
The Causal Link Between Financial Incentives and Weight Loss – An Evidence-based Survey of the Literature

Nr 289
Heufer, J.
Stochastic Dominance and Nonparametric Comparative Revealed Risk Aversion

Nr 288
Bauer, T. K. und B. S. Grave
Performance-related Funding of Universities – Does more Competition Lead to Grade Inflation?

Nr 287
Felder, S. und T. Mayrhofer
Higher-Order Risk Preferences – Consequences for Test and Treatment Thresholds and Optimal Cutoffs

Nr 286
Klose, J.
Political Business Cycles and Monetary Policy Revisited – An Application of a Two-Dimensional Asymmetric Taylor Reaction Function

Nr 285
Bauer, T. K., M. Fertig und M. Vorell
Neighborhood Effects and Individual Unemployment

Nr 284
Bensch, G., J. Kluve und J. Peters
Impacts of Rural Electrification in Rwanda

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Flake, R.
Gender Differences in the Intergenerational Earnings Mobility of Second-Generation Migrants

Nr 282
Ritter, N. und C. Vance
The Phantom Menace of Omitted Variables – A Comment

Nr 281
Orland, A. und M. W.M. Roos
The New Keynesian Phillips Curve with Myopic Agents

Nr 280
Frondel, M. und C. Vance
Future Pain at the Diesel Pump? Potential Effects of the European Commission’s Energy Taxation Proposal

Nr 279
Bensch, G., J. Peters und C. M. Schmidt
Impact Evaluation of Productive Use – An Implementation Guideline for Electrification Projects

Nr 278
Keldenich, K. und M. Klemm
Double or Nothing!? Small Groups Making Decisions Under Risk in “Quiz Taxi”

Nr 277
Kuntz, L., R. Mennicken und S. Scholtes
Stress on the Ward – An Empirical Study of the Nonlinear Relationship between Organizational Workload and Service Quality

Nr 276
Frondel, M. und C. Vance
Re-Identifying the Rebound – What About Asymmetry?

Nr 275
Bredtmann, J., C. J. Crede und S. Otten
Methods for Evaluating Educational Programs – Does Writing Center Participation Affect Student Achievement?

Nr 274
Isphording, I. E. und S. Otten
Linguistic Distance and the Language Fluency of Immigrants

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Belke, A. und C. Dreger
Ramifications of Debt Restructuring on the Euro Area – The Example of Large European Economies’ Exposure to Greece

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Beckmann, J.
Nonlinear Adjustment, Purchasing Power Parity and the Role of Nominal Exchange Rates and Prices

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Sinning, M. und M. Vorell
There Goes the Neighborhood? – People‘s Attitudes and the Effects of Immigration to Australia

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Rusche, C.
Does Delegation Help to Prevent Spiteful Behavior?

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Heufer, J.
Crime, Inequality, and the Private Provision of Security

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Bachmann, R., D. Baumgarten und J. Stiebale
Cross-border Investment, Heterogeneous Workers, and Employment Security – Evidence from Germany

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Bauer, T. K., S. Braun und M. Kvasnicka
The Economic Integration of Forced Migrants – Evidence for Post-War Germany

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Reichert, A. R. und H. Tauchmann
The Causal Impact of Fear of Unemployment on Psychological Health

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Burgard, C. und K. Görlitz
Continuous Training, Job Satisfaction and Gender – An Empirical Analysis Using German Panel Data

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Behl, P., H. Dette, M. Frondel und H. Tauchmann
Being Focused: When the Purpose of Inference Matters for Model Selection

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Haisken-DeNew, J. P. und M. Michaelsen
Migration Magnet: The Role of Work Experience in Rural-Urban Wage Differentials in Mexico

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Michaelsen, M.
The Hidden Increase in Wage Inequality: Skill-biased and Ability-biased Technological Change

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Choi, K. H., M. Tienda, D. Cobb-Clark und M. Sinning
Immigration and Status Exchange in Australia and the United States

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Bauer, T. K., S. Bender, A. Paloyo und C. M. Schmidt
Do Guns Displace Books? – The Impact of Compulsory Military Service on Educational Attainment

Nr 259
Trax, M.
Productivity and the Internationalization of Firms – Cross-border Acquisitions versus Greenfield Investments

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Keese, M.
Thrifty Wives and Lavish Husbands? – Bargaining Power and Financial Dicisions in Germany

Nr 257
Bauer, T. K., R. Flake und M. Sinning
Labor Market Effects of Immigration – Evidence from Neighborhood Data

Nr 256
Frondel, M.
Modeling Energy and Non-energy Substitution – A Survey of Elasticities

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Bredemeier, C. und H. Goecke
Sticky Prices vs. Sticky Information – A Cross-Country Study of Inflation Dynamics

Nr 254
Brosig, J. und T. Heinrich
Reputation and Mechanism Choice in Procurement Auctions – An Experiment

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Heinrich, T.
Communication and Reputation in Procurement Auctions – Some Empirical Evidence

Nr 252
Beckmann, J., A. Belke und F. Dobnik
Cross-section Dependence and the Monetary Exchange Rate Model – A Panel Analysis

Nr 251
Giesen, K. und C. Schwarz
Trade, Wages, FDI and Productivity

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Behl, P., H. Dette, M. Frondel und H. Tauchmann
Choice is Suffering: A Focused Information Criterion for Model Selection

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Ehlert, C., J. Kluve und S. Schaffner
Training + Temp Work = Stepping Stone? – Evaluating an Innovative Activation Program for Disadvantaged Youths

Nr 248
Luhan, W. J., M. W.M. Roos und J. Scharler
An Experiment on Consumption Responses to Future Prices and Interest Rates

Nr 247
Clausen, V. und H. Wohltmann
Oil Price Shocks and Cyclical Dynamics in an Asymmetric Monetary Union

Nr 246
Jopp, T. Alexander
The Hazard of Merger by Absorption – Why Some Knappschaften Merged and Others Did not: 1861–1920

Nr 245
Frondel, M. und S. Lohmann
The European Commission‘s Light Bulb Decree: Another Costly Regulation?

Nr 244
Chapman, B. und M. Sinning
Student Loan Reforms for German Higher Education: Financing Tuition Fees

Nr 243
Belke, A. und C. Gokus
Volatility Patterns of CDS, Bond and Stock Markets Before and During the Financial Crisis – Evidence from Major Financial Institutions

Nr 242
Busch, C. und C. Vance
The Diffusion of Cattle Ranching and Deforestation – Prospects for a Hollow Frontier in Mexico’s Yucatán

Nr 241
Belke, A. und C. Dreger
Current Account Imbalances in the Euro Area: Catching up or Competitiveness?

Nr 240
Jovanovic, M.
Does Monetary Policy Affect Stock Market Uncertainty? – Empirical Evidence from the United States

Nr 239
Kassenböhmer, S. C. und C. M. Schmidt
Beyond GDP and Back: What is the Value-added by Additional Components of Welfare Measurement?

Nr 238
Jopp, T. Alexander
Old Times, Better Times? German Miners’ Knappschaften, Pay-as-you-go Pensions, and Implicit Rates of Return, 1854–1913

Nr 237
Dobnik, F.
Long-run Money Demand in OECD Countries – Cross-Member Cointegration

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Belau, J.
Outside Options in Probabilistic Coalition Situations

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Nr 235
Grave, B. S.
The Effect of Student Time Allocation on Academic Achievement

Nr 234
Keese, M. und H. Schmitz
Broke, Ill, and Obese: The Effect of Household Debt on Health

Nr 233
Grösche, P. und C. Schröder
Eliciting Public Support for Greening the Electricity Mix Using Random Parameter Techniques

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Belke, A.
Reinforcing EU Governance in Times of Crisis: The Commission Proposals and Beyond

Nr 231
Bensch, G., J. Kluve und J. Peters
Rural Electrification in Rwanda – An Impact Assessment Using Matching Techniques

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Richter, W. und J. Rosenmüller
Efficient Specialization in Ricardian Production

Nr 229
Harms, P. und P. an de Meulen
Demographic Structure and the Security of Property Rights in Developing Countries – An Empirical Exploration

Nr 228
Baumgarten, D.
International Trade and Worker Turnover – Empirical Evidence for Germany

Nr 227
Frondel, M., N. Ritter und C. Vance
Heterogeneity in the Rebound Effect – Further Evidence for Germany

Nr 226
Mitze, T. und J. Reinkowski
Testing the Neoclassical Migration Model: Overall and Age-Group Specific Results for German Regions

Nr 225
Bauer, T. K., S. Bender, J. Heining und C. M. Schmidt
Brother Sun, Sister Moon: The Lunar Cycle, Sunspots and the Frequency of Births

Nr 224
Meng, A.
The Impact of Demographic Change, Co-morbidity and European Care Policies on the Choice of Care Arrangement

Nr 223
Kiss, D.
Are Immigrants Graded Worse in Primary and Secondary Education? – Evidence for German Schools

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Mitze, T.
Within and Between Panel Cointegration in the German Regional Output-Trade-FDI Nexus

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Sinning, M. und S. Worner
Inter-ethnic Marriage and Partner Satisfaction

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Kassenböhmer, S. C. und M. Sinning
Distributional Changes in the Gender Wage Gap

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Gu, Y. und B. Hehenkamp
The Inefficiency of Market Transparency – A Model with Endogenous Entry

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Bredtmann, J. und S. Otten
Getting What (Employers Think) You’re Worth – Evidence on the Gender Gap in Entry Wages among University Graduates

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Baumgarten, D.
Exporters and the Rise in Wage Inequality – Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

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Verheyen, F.
Monetary Policy, Commodity Prices and Infl ation – Empirical Evidence from the US

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Mennicken, R., B. Augurzky, H. Rothgang und J. Wasem
Explaining Differences in Remuneration Rates of Nursing Homes in Germany

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Bredemeier, C.
Inattentive Voters and Welfare-State Persistence

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Bredemeier, C.
Imperfect Information and the Meltzer-Richard Hypothesis

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von Schnurbein, B.
The Core of an Extended Tree Game: A New Characterisation

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Paloyo, A., C. Vance und M. Vorell
Local Determinants of Crime: Do Military Bases Matter?

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Braun, C.
Optimal Taxation of Education with an Initial Endowment of Human Capital

Nr 209
Frondel, M. und C. Vance
Rarely Enjoyed? – A Count Data Analysis of Ridership

Nr 208
Schmidt, T. und S. Vosen
A Monthly Consumption Indicator for Germany Based on Internet Search Query Data

Nr 207
Belke, A.
The Euro Area Crisis Management Framework – Consequences and Institutional Follow-ups

Nr 206
Paloyo, A.
Compulsory Military Service in Germany Revisited

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Mitze, T.
Network Dependency in Migration Flows – A Space-time Analysis for Germany since Re-unification

Nr 204
Reinkowski, J., B. Alecke, T. Mitze und G. Untiedt
Effectiveness of Public R&D Subsidies in East Germany – Is it a Matter of Firm Size?

Nr 203
Keese, M., A. Meng und R. Schnabel
Are You Well Prepared for Long-term Care? – Assessing Financial Gaps in Private German Care Provision

Nr 202
Braun, C.
Taxing Human Capital: A Good Idea

Nr 201
Döhrn, R. und C. M. Schmidt
Information or Institution? – On the Determinants of Forecast Accuracy

Nr 200
Bredtmann, J.
The Intra-household Division of Labor – An Empirical Analysis of Spousal Influences on Individual Time Allocation

Nr 199
Bohnstedt, A. und C. Schwarz
Strategic Technology Investments in Open Economies

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Augurzky, B. und H. Schmitz
Is there a Future for Small Hospitals in Germany?

Nr 197
Görlitz, K.
Continuous Training and Wages – An Empirical Analysis Using a Comparison-group Approach

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Klabunde, A. und E. Korn
Parasites and Raven Mothers: A German-Japanese Comparison on (Lone) Motherhood

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Bauer, T. K. und M. Vorell
External Effects of Education: Human Capital Spillovers in Regions and Firms

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Belke, A.
Driven by the Markets? ECB Sovereign Bond Purchases and the Securities Markets Programme

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Engel, D. und V. Procher
Home Firm Performance after Foreign Investments and Divestitures

Nr 192
Engel, D., V. Procher und C. M. Schmidt
The Asymmetries of a Small World: Entry Into and Withdrawal From International Markets by French Firms

Nr 191
Peters, J. und C. Vance
Rural Electrification and Fertility – Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire

Nr 190
Belke, A., C. Dreger und F. de Haan
Energy Consumption and Economic Growth – New Insights into the Cointegration Relationship

Nr 189
Peters, J., C. Vance und M. Harsdorff
Rural Electrification and Manufacturing Firm Performance in Benin – An Ex-Ante Impact Assessment

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Bachmann, R., T. K. Bauer und P. David
Labour Market Entry Conditions, Wages and Job Mobility

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Isphording, I. E.
Risky Business – The Role of Individual Risk Attitudes in Occupational Choice

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Schmidt, C. M. und H. Tauchmann
Heterogeneity in the Intergenerational Transmission of Alcohol Consumption – A Quantile Regression Approach

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Franke, J.
Does Affirmative Action Reduce Effort Incentives? – A Contest Game Analysis

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Belke, A.
How Much Fiscal Backing Must the ECB Have? – The Euro Area is not the Philippines

Nr 183
Belke, A.
Financial Crisis, Global Liquidity and Monetary Exit Strategies

Nr 182
Iovanna, R. und C. Vance
Land Conversion and Market Equilibrium – Insights from a Simulated Landscape

Nr 181
Paloyo, A., C. Vance und M. Vorell
The Regional Economic Effects of Military Base Realignments and Closures in Germany

Nr 180
Anger, S., M. Kvasnicka und T. Siedler
One Last Puff? – Public Smoking Bans and Smoking Behavior

Nr 179
Heufer, J.
Quasiconcave Preferences and Choices on a Probability Simplex – A Nonparametric Analysis

Nr 178
Gu, Y.
Wage and Employment Effects of Workplace Representation – A ”Right To Co-Manage” Model

Nr 177
Hofer, H., T. Schmidt und K. Weyerstraß
Practice and Prospects of Medium-term Economic Forecasting

Nr 176
Zemanek, H., A. Belke und G. Schnabl
Current Account Balances and Structural Adjustment in the Euro Area

Nr 175
Belke, A. und B. von Schnurbein
European Monetary Policy and the ECB Rotation Model - Voting Power of the Core versus the Periphery

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Belke, A., J. Beckmann und M. Kühl
Global Integration of Central and Eastern European Financial Markets – The Role of Economic Sentiments

Nr 173
Kvasnicka, M.
Public Smoking Bans, Youth Access Laws, and Cigarette Sales at Vending Machines

Nr 172
Kvasnicka, M. und H. Tauchmann
Much Ado About Nothing? – Smoking Bans and Germany’s Hospitality Industry

Nr 171
Belke, A. und R. Czudaj
Is Euro Area Money Demand (Still) Stable? - Cointegrated VAR versus Single Equation Techniques

Nr 170
Corneo, G., M. Keese und C. Schröder
The Effect of Saving Subsidies on Household Saving – Evidence from Germany

Nr 169
Keese, M.
Who Feels Constrained by High Debt Burdens? - Subjective vs. Objective Measures of Household Indebtedness

Nr 168
Meng, A.
Long-term Care Responsibility and its Opportunity Costs

Nr 167
Belke, A., I. G. Bordon und T. W Hendriks
Monetary Policy, Global Liquidity and Commodity Price Dynamics

Nr 166
Belke, A. und J. Klose
(How) Do the ECB and the Fed React to Financial Market Uncertainty? – The Taylor Rule in Times of Crisis

Nr 165
Schmidt, T. und S. Vosen
Demographic Change and the Labour Share of Income

Nr 164
Basilio, L. und T. K. Bauer
Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation - An Analysis for Germany

Nr 163
Guinnane, T. W. und J. Streb
Moral Hazard in a Mutual Health-Insurance System: German Knappschaften, 1867-1914

Nr 162
Augurzky, B., A. R. Reichert und H. Tauchmann
The Effect of Self-assessed Job Security on the Demand for Medical Rehab

Nr 161
Stiebale, J.
The Impact of Foreign Acquisitions on the Investors' R&D Activities - Firm-level Evidence

Nr 160
Frondel, M. und C. Vance
Fixed, Random, or Something in Between? - A Variant of HAUSMAN's Specification Test for Panel Data Estimators

Nr 159
Stiebale, J. und M. Trax
The Effects of Cross-border M&As on the Acquirers' Domestic Performance - Firm-level Evidence

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Nr 158
Heufer, J.
In Vino Veritas: The Economics of Drinking

Nr 157
Schmidt, C. M., J. Mensah und J. R. Oppong
Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme in the Context of the Health MDGs - An Empirical Evaluation Using Propensity Score Matching

Nr 156
Frondel, M., C. M. Schmidt, N. Ritter und C. Vance
Economic Impacts from the Promotion of Renewable Energy Technologies - The German Experience

Nr 155
Schmidt, T. und S. Vosen
Forecasting Private Consumption – Survey-based Indicators vs. Google Trends

Nr 154
Bethmann, D. und M. Kvasnicka
Why Are More Boys Born During War? Evidence from Germany at Mid Century

Nr 153
Meng, A.
Do Parents Buy Their Children's Attention?

Nr 152
Meng, A.
Informal Home Care and Labor Force Participation of Household Members

Nr 151
Weber, A. und C. Zulehner
Female Hires and the Success of Start-up Firms

Nr 150
Keese, M.
Triggers and Determinants of Severe Household Indebtedness in Germany

Nr 149
Bredtmann, J., J. Kluve und S. Schaffner
Women's Fertility and Employment Decisions under Two Political Systems - Comparing East and West Germany before Reunification

Nr 148
Belke, A., M. Goecke und M. Guenther
When Does It Hurt? The Exchange Rate "Pain Threshold" for German Exports

Nr 147
Belke, A., G. Schnabl und H. Zemanek
Real Convergence, Capital Flows, and Competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe

Nr 146
Weber, A. und C. Zulehner
Competition and Gender Prejudice: Are Discriminatory Employers Doomed to Fail?

Nr 145
Kluve, J. und M. Tamm
Now Daddy's Changing Diapers and Mommy's Making Her Career - Evaluating a Generous Parental Leave Regulation Using a Natural Experiment

Nr 144
Görlitz, K.
The Effect of Subsidizing Continuous Training Investments - Evidence from German Establishment Data

Nr 143
Eckl, V., M. Rothgang und F. Welter
Public Policy and Success of Business Start-ups in Germany

Nr 142
Paloyo, A.
Co-pay and Feel Okay: Evidence of Illusory Health Gains from a Health Insurance Reform

Nr 141
Bauer, T. K., S. Bender, A. Paloyo und C. M. Schmidt
Evaluating the Labor-Market Effects of Compulsory Military Service - A Regression-Discontinuity Approach

Nr 140
Richter, W.
Taxing Education in Ramsey's Tradition

Nr 139
Kluve, J., S. Schaffner und C. M. Schmidt
Labor Force Status Dynamics in the German Labor Market - Individual Heterogeneity and Cyclical Sensitivity

Nr 138
Frondel, M. und C. Vance
On Marginal and Interaction Effects: The Case of Heckit and Two-Part Models

Nr 137
Cobb-Clark, D. und M. Sinning
Neighborhood Diversity and the Appreciation of Native- and Immigrant-Owned Homes

Nr 136
Peters, J.
Evaluating Rural Electrification Projects - Methodological Approaches

Nr 135
Belke, A. und A. Rees
The Importance of Global Shocks for National Policy Makers - Rising Challenges for Central Banks

Nr 134
Beckmann, J., A. Belke und M. Kühl
How Stable Are Monetary Models of the Dollar-Euro Exchange Rate? - A Time-varying Coefficient Approach

Nr 133
Belke, A. und J. Klose
Does the ECB Rely on a Taylor Rule? - Comparing Ex-post with Real Time Data

Nr 132
Herr, A., H. Schmitz und B. Augurzky
Does Higher Cost Inefficiency Imply Higher Profit Inefficiency? - Evidence on Inefficiency and Ownership of German Hospitals

Nr 131
Belke, A., I. G. Bordon, I. Melnykovska und R. Schweickert
Prospective NATO or EU Membership and Institutional Change in Transition Countries

Nr 130
Franke, J., C. Kanzow, W. Leininger und A. Väth
Effort Maximization in Asymmetric N-person Contest Games

Nr 129
Eckl, V. und D. Engel
Benefiting from Publicly Funded Pre-competitive Research - Differences between Insiders and Outsiders

Nr 128
Belke, A. und D. Gros
A Simple Model of an Oil Based Global Savings Glut – The “China Factor” and the OPEC Cartel

Nr 127
Clausen, V. und H. Schürenberg-Frosch
Aid, Spending Strategies and Productivity Effects - A Multi-sectoral CGE Analysis for Zambia

Nr 126
Engel, D. und J. Stiebale
Private Equity, Investment and Financial Constraints – Firm-Level Evidence for France and the United Kingdom

Nr 125
Basilio, L.
Deciding who works where? An Analysis of the Distribution of Work within Native and Immigrant Families in Australia

Nr 124
Bachmann, R. und P. David
The Importance of Two-Sided Heterogeneity for the Cyclicality of Labour Market Dynamics

Nr 123
Augurzky, B., D. Engel, C. M. Schmidt und C. Schwierz
Ownership and Financial Performance in the German Hospital Sector

Nr 122
Haisken-DeNew, J. P. und C. M. Schmidt
Nickel and Dimed German Style: The Working Poor in Germany

Nr 121
Haisken-DeNew, J. P. und M. Vorell
Killing them with Kindness: Negative Distributional Externalities of Increasing UI Benefits

Nr 120
Schwierz, C., A. Wübker und B. A. Kuchinke
The Impact of Private versus Social Health Insurance on Offered Waiting Times in German Acute Care Hospitals

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Schwierz, C. und A. Wübker
Determinants of Avoidable Deaths from Ischaemic Heart Diseases in East and West Germany

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Schaffner, S.
Heterogeneity in the Cyclical Sensitivity of Job-to-Job Flows

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Kassenböhmer, S. C. und J. P. Haisken-DeNew
Social Jealousy and Stigma: Negative Externalities of Social Assistance Payments in Germany

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Franke, J. und T. Öztürk
Conflict Networks

Nr 115
Hörmann, M. und A. Schabert
An Interest Rate Peg Might Be Better than You Think

Nr 114
Felder, S. und A. Olbrich
Dealing with Excessive Off-label Drug Use: Liability vs. Patent Prolongation

Nr 113
Kunze, L.
Capital Taxation, Long-run Growth, and Bequests

Nr 112
Felder, S. und H. Tauchmann
Regional Differences in the Efficiency of Health Production: an Artefact of Spatial Dependence?

Nr 111
Engel, D. und V. Procher
Export, FDI and Productivity - Evidence for French Firms

Nr 110
Grösche, P.
Housing, Energy Cost, and the Poor - Counteracting Effects in Germany's Housing Allowance Program

Nr 109
Bauer, T. K. und M. Sinning
The Purpose of Remittances - Evidence from Germany

Nr 108
Baumgarten, D.
International Outsourcing, the Nature of Tasks, and Occupational Stability - Empirical Evidence for Germany

Nr 107
Fertig, M., C. M. Schmidt und M. Sinning
The Impact of Demographic Change on Human Capital Accumulation

Nr 106
Schwierz, C.
Expansion in Markets with Decreasing Demand - For-Profits in the German Hospital Industry

Nr 105
Schwierz, C., B. Augurzky und J. Wasem
Does the Quality of Hospital Treatment Vary by Days of the Week?

Nr 104
Frondel, M., C. M. Schmidt und C. Vance
Measuring Energy Supply Risks: A G7 Ranking

Nr 103
Frondel, M. und C. Vance
Driving for Fun? - A Comparison of Weekdays and Weekend Travel

Nr 102
Belke, A., I. G. Bordon und T. W Hendriks
Global Liquidity and Commodity Prices - A Cointegrated VAR Approach for OECD Countries

Nr 101
Schweineberger, A. G. und J. Suedekum
De-Industrialisation, Entrepreneurial Industries and Welfare

Nr 100
Procher, V.
Agglomeration Effects and the Location of Foreign Direct Investment - Evidence from French First-Time Movers

Nr 099
Grösche, P., C. M. Schmidt und C. Vance
Identifying Free-Riding in Energy-Conservation Programs Using Revealed Preference Data

Nr 098
Tamm, M.
The Impact of a Large Parental Leave Benefit Reform on the Timing of Birth around the Day of Implementation

Nr 097
Tamm, M.
Child Benefit Reform and Labor Market Participation

Nr 096
Alecke, B., T. Mitze und G. Untiedt
Internal Migration, Regional Labour Market Dynamics and Implications for German East-West Disparities - Results from a Panel VAR

Nr 095
Brenner, J.
Life-Cycle Variations in the Association between Current and Lifetime Earnings - Evidence for German Natives and Guest Workers

Nr 094
Belke, A. und N. Potrafke
Does Government Idelogy Matter in Monetary Poliy? - A Panel Data Analysis for OECD Countries

Nr 093
Braun, S. und M. Kvasnicka
Men, Women, and the Ballot - Woman Suffrage in the United States

Nr 092
Gu, Y. und T. Wenzel
Product Variety, Price Elasticity of Demand and Fixed Cost in Spatial Models

Nr 091
Bredemeier, C. und F. Jüßen
Household Labor Supply and Home Services in a General-Equilibrium Model with Heterogeneous Agents

Nr 090
Kunze, L. und C. Schuppert
Financing Social Security by Taxing Capital Income - A Bad Idea?

Nr 089
Vance, C. und M. Mehlin
Tax Policy and CO2 Emissions - An Econometric Analysis of the German Automobile Market

Nr 088
Belke, A.
Fiscal Stimulus Packages and Uncertainty in Times of Crisis - The Option of Waiting Can Be Valuable, Though!

Nr 087
Görlitz, K.
The Development of Employers' Training Investments Over Time - A Decomposition Analysis Using German Establishment Data

Nr 086
Card, D., J. Kluve und A. Weber
Active Labor Market Policy Evaluations - A Meta Analysis

Nr 085
Belke, A. und Y. Cui
US-Euro Area Monetary Policy Interdependence - New Evidence from Taylor Rule Based VECMs

Nr 084
Mitze, T., B. Alecke und G. Untiedt
Trade-FDI Linkages in a System of Gravity Equations for German Regional Data

Nr 083
Mitze, T.
Endogeneity in Panel Data Models with Time-Varying and Time-Fixed Regressors: To IV or not IV?

Nr 082
Schwarz, C. und U. Stroinski
Is there a Walrasian Equilibrium in Exchange Markets with Endowment Effect

RWI : Ruhr Economic Papers 2008

Nr 081
Frondel, M., C. M. Schmidt und C. Vance
Emissions Trading: Impact on Electricity Prices and Energy-Intensive Industries

Nr 080
Döhrn, R., C. M. Schmidt und T. Zimmermann
Inflation Forecasting with Inflation Sentiment Indicators

Nr 079
Bauer, T. K., J. Kluve, S. Schaffner und C. M. Schmidt
Fiscal Effects of Minimum Wages - An Analysis for Germany

Nr 078
Gu, Y.
Imperfect Certification

Nr 077
Jovanovic, M. und T. Zimmermann
Stock Market Uncertainty and Monetary Policy Reaction Functions of the Federal Reserve Bank

Nr 076
Schmitz, H.
Do Optional Deductibles Reduce the Number of Doctor Visits? - Empirical Evidence with German Data

Nr 075
Bauer, T. K. und C. M. Schmidt
WTP vs. WTA: Christmas Presents and the Endowment Effect

Nr 074
Augurzky, B., A. Focke, C. Schwierz und J. Wasem
Demand, Selection and Patient Outcomes in German Acute Care Hospitals

Nr 073
Felder, S., A. Werblow und P. Zweifel
Do Red Herrings Swim in Circles? - Controlling for the Endogeneity of Time to Death

Nr 072
Frondel, M. und C. Vance
Do High Oil Prices Matter? Evidence on the Mobility Behavior of German Households

Nr 071
Schurer, S.
Discrete Heterogeneity in the Impact of Health Shocks on Labour Market Outcomes

Nr 070
Heufer, J.
Stochastic Revealed Preference and Rationalizability

Nr 069
Heufer, J.
A Geometric Measure for the Violation of Utility Maximization

Nr 068
Holtemöller, O. und T. Schmidt
Identifying Sources of Business Cycle Fluctuations in Germany 1975-1998

Nr 067
Bender, S., M. Fertig, K. Görlitz, M. Huber und A. Schmucker
WeLL - Unique Linked Employer-Employee Data on Further Training in Germany

Nr 066
Suedekum, J.
National Champion Versus Foreign Takeover

Nr 065
Middendorf, T.
Returns to Education in Europe - Detailed Results from a Harmonized Survey

Nr 064
Göhlmann, S. und C. M. Schmidt
Smoking in Germany: Stylized Facts, Behavioral Models, and Health Policy

Nr 063
Kassenböhmer, S. C. und J. P. Haisken-DeNew
You're Fired! The Causal Negative Effect of Unemployment on Life Satisfaction.

Nr 062
Belke, A. und D. Gros
Is Fiscal Policy Coordination Needed in a Common Currency Area?

Nr 061
Tauchmann, H.
West-East Convergence in the Prevalence of Cannabis Use: Socioeconomics or Culture?

Nr 060
Grösche, P.
Measuring Residential Energy Efficieny Improvements with DEA

Nr 059
Rothgang, M.
Sectoral Innovation Systems, Corporate Strategies, and Competitiveness of the German Economy in a Globalised World

Nr 058
Grösche, P. und C. Vance
Willingness-to-Pay for Energy Conservation and Free-Ridership on Subsidization - Evidence from Germany

Nr 057
Schurer, S.
Labour Market Outcomes of Second Generation Immigrants: How Heterogeneous Are They Really?

Nr 056
Jacobi, L. und S. Schaffner
Does Marginal Employment Substitute Regular Employment? - A Heterogeneous Dynamic Labor Demand Approach for Germany

Nr 055
Roos, M. W.M. und W. J. Luhan
As if or What? - Expectations and Optimization in a Simple Macroeconomic Environment

Nr 054
Roos, M. W.M. und W. J. Luhan
Are Expectations Formed by the Anchoring-and-adjustment Heuristic? - An Experimental Investigation

Nr 053
Braun, S. und R. Bachmann
The Impact of International Outsourcing on Labour Market Dynamics in Germany

Nr 052
Frondel, M. und C. M. Schmidt
Measuring Energy Security: A Conceptual Note

Nr 051
Stiebale, J.
Do Financial Constraints Matter for Foreign Market Entry? - A Firm-Level Examination

Nr 050
Stiebale, J. und F. Reize
The Impact of FDI on Innovation in Target Firms

Nr 049
Leininger, W.
Evolutionarily Stable Preferences in Contests

Nr 048
Bayer, C. und C. Hanck
Is Double Trouble? - How to Combine Cointegration Tests

Nr 047
Haisken-DeNew, J. P. und M. Vorell
Blood Money: Incentives for Violence in NHL Hockey

Nr 046
Augurzky, B. und H. Tauchmann
Less Social Health Insurance - More Private Supplementary Insurance?

Nr 045
Popp, S.
A Nonlinear Unit Root Test in the Presence of an Unknown Break

Nr 044
Frondel, M., C. M. Schmidt und C. Vance
A Regression on Climate Policy – The European Commission's Proposal to Reduce CO2 Emissions from Transport

Nr 043
Vance, C. und R. Iovanna
Cities and Satelites: Spatial Effects and Unobserved Heterogeneity in the Modeling of Urban Growth

Nr 042
Braun, S. und M. Kvasnicka
Against All Odds? National Sentiment and Wagering on European Football

Nr 041
Görlitz, K. und J. Stiebale
Does Product Market Competition Decrease Employers' Training Investments

Nr 040
Frondel, M., N. Ritter und C. M. Schmidt
Germany's Solar Cell Promotion: Dark Clouds on the Horizon

Nr 039
Del Bono, E., A. Weber und R. Winter-Ebmer
Clash of Career and Family - Fertility Decisions after Job Displacement

Nr 038
Peters, J. und S. Thielmann
Promoting Biofuels: Implications for Developing Countries

RWI : Ruhr Economic Papers 2007

Nr 037
Belke, A. und W. Orth
Global Excess Liquidity and House Prices - A VAR Analysis for OECD Countries

Nr 036
Heufer, J.
Revealed Preference and the Number of Commodities

Nr 035
Kluve, J., H. Schneider, A. Uhlendorff und Z. Zhao
Evaluating Continuous Training Programs Using the Generalized Propensity Score

Nr 034
Tauchmann, H., S. Göhlmann, T. Requate und C. M. Schmidt
Tobacco and Alcohol: Complements or Substitutes? - A Structural Model Approach

Nr 033
Gu, Y. und T. Wenzel
A Note on the Excess Entry Theorem in Spatial Models with Elastic Demand

Nr 032
Frondel, M., J. Peters und C. Vance
Identifying the Rebound - Evidence from a German Household Panel

Nr 031
Haisken-DeNew, J. P. und M. Sinning
Social Deprivation and Exclusion of Immigrants in Germany

Nr 030
Sinning, M.
Wealth and Asset Holdings of Immigrants in Germany

Nr 029
Schmidt, T. und T. Zimmermann
Why are the Effects of Recent Oil Price Shocks so Small?

Nr 028
Kluve, J. und S. Schaffner
Gender Wage Differentials and the Occupational Injury Risk - Evidence from Germany and the US

Nr 027
Göhlmann, S.
The Determinants of Smoking Initiation - Empirical Evidence for Germany

Nr 026
Göhlmann, S.
Who Smokes and How Much? - Empirical Evidence for Germany

Nr 025
Brenner, J.
Effects of Job Entry Restrictions on Economic Integration - Evidence for Recent Ethnic German Immigrants

Nr 024
Basilio, L., T. K. Bauer und M. Sinning
Analyzing the Labor Market Activity of Immigrant Families in Germany

Nr 023
Sinning, M.
Determinants of Savings and Remittances - Empirical Evidence from Immigrants to Germany

Nr 022
Brenner, J.
Parental Impact on Attitude Formation - A Siblings Study on Worries about Immigration

Nr 021
Belke, A. und J. Spies
Enlarging the EMU to the east: What effects on trade?

Nr 020
Fertig, M. und S. Schurer
Labour Market Outcomes of Immigrants in Germany - The Importance of Heterogeneity and Attrition Bias

Nr 019
Plewka, J.
Fiscal Discrimination Between Consumer Groups: Tax Burden Distribution Under Price Discrimination

Nr 018
Karanasos, M. und S. Schurer
Is the Relationship Between Inflation and its Uncertainty Linear?

Nr 017
Dewenter, R. und J. Haucap
Demand Elasticities for Mobile Telecommunications in Austria

Nr 016
Konrad, K. A. und W. Leininger
Self-enforcing Norms and the Efficient Non-cooperative Organization of Clans

Nr 015
Rausch, S. und T. F. Rutherford
Computation of Equilibria in OLG Models with Many Heterogeneous Households

Nr 014
Schaffner, S. und H. Spengler
Using Job Changes to Evaluate the Bias of the Value of a Statistical Life

Nr 013
Wenzel, T.
Liberalization of Opening Hours with Free Entry

Nr 012
Richter, W.
Taxing Human Capital Efficiently - The Double Dividend of Taxing Nonqualified Labour More Heavily Than Qualified Labour

Nr 011
Vance, C. und R. Iovanna
Gender and the Automobile - An Analysis of Non-work Service Trips

Nr 010
Middendorf, T.
The Impact of Cohort Size and Local Labor Market Conditions on Human Capital Accumulation in Europe

Nr 009
Haucap, J., U. Pauly und C. Wey
A Cartel Analysis of the German Labor Institutions and Its Implications for Labor Market Reforms

Nr 008
Jones, A. M. und S. Schurer
How Does Heterogeneity Shape the Socioeconomic Gradient in Health Satisfaction?

Nr 007
Engel, D. und T. Middendorf
Investment, Internal Funds and Public Banking in Germany

Nr 006
Bauer, T. K., D. Cobb-Clark, V. Hildebrand und M. Sinning
A Comparative Analysis of the Nativity Wealth Gap

Nr 005
Bachmann, R. und M. C. Burda
Sectoral Transformation, Turbulence, and Labor Market Dynamics in Germany

Nr 004
Leininger, W. und A. Ockenfels
The Penalty-Duel and Institutional Design: Is there a Neeskens-Effect?

Nr 003
Poutvaara, P. und L. -H.R. Siemers
Smoking and Social Interaction

Nr 002
Herr, A.
Cost and Technical Efficiency of German Hospitals - A Stochastic Frontier Analysis

Nr 001
Schmidt, C. M.
Policy Evaluation and Economic Policy Advice