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Ruhr Economic Papers


Die "Ruhr Economic Papers" werden gemeinsam von den wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultäten der Universitäten Bochum, Dortmund und Duisburg-Essen sowie vom RWI Essen herausgegeben. Die RGS Econ ist über die Universitäten und das RWI Essen Mit-Herausgeber.
Die Ruhr Economic Papers dienen der Verbreitung von wissenschaftlichen Forschungsergebnissen der Mitglieder der beteiligten Fakultäten, der Mitarbeiter des RWI Essen und der Doktoranden der RGS Econ in internationalen Fachkreisen bei gleichzeitiger Wahrung der wissenschaftlichen Autonomie der Fakultäten. Endgültiges Ziel ist die Publikation der Beiträge in einer referierten Fachzeitschrift oder einem Sammelband. Zielgruppe ist also die internationale Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft. Die Beiträge sind grundsätzlich in englischer Sprache.
Die verantwortlichen Editoren sind: Prof. Dr. Thomas K. Bauer, RUB; Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Leininger, Universität Dortmund; Prof. Dr. Volker Clausen, Universität Duisburg-Essen; Prof. Dr. Christoph M. Schmidt, RWI Essen. Editorial Office: Joachim Schmidt, RWI Essen, e-mail: schmidtj@rwi-essen.de.

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"Ruhr Economic Papers": ISSN 1864-4872

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2010
171 Ansgar Belke and Robert Czudaj
Is Euro Area Money Demand (Still) Stable? - Cointegrated VAR versus Single Equation Techniques
170 Giacomo Corneo, Matthias Keese, and Carsten Schröder
The Effect of Saving Subsidies on Household Saving - Evidence from Germany
169 Matthias Keese
Who Feels Constrained by High Debt Burdens? - Subjective vs. Objective Measures of Household Indebtedness
168 Annika Meng
Long-term Care Responsibility and its Opportunity Costs
167 Ansgar Belke, Ingo G. Bordon, and Torben W. Hendricks
Monetary Policy, Global Liquidity and Commodity Price Dynamics
166 Ansgar Belke and Jens Klose
(How) Do the ECB and the Fed React to Financial Market Uncertainty? - The Taylor Rule in Times of Crisis
165 Torsten Schmidt and Simeon Vosen
Demographic Change and the Labour Share of Income
164 Leilanie Basilio and Thomas K. Bauer
Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation - An Analysis for Germany
163 Timothy W. Guinnane and Jochen Streb
Moral Hazard in a Mutual Health-Insurance System: German Knappschaften, 1867-1914
162 Boris Augurzky, Arndt Reichert, and Harald Tauchmann
The Effect of Self-assessed Job Security on the Demand for Medical Rehab
161 Joel Stiebale
The Impact of Foreign Acquisitions on the Investors' R&D Activities - Firm-level Evidence
160 Manuel Frondel and Colin Vance
Fixed, Random, or Something in Between? - A Variant of HAUSMAN's Specification Test for Panel Data Estimators
159 Joel Stiebale and Michaela Trax
The Effects of Cross-border M&As on the Acquirers' Domestic Performance - Firm-level Evidence

2009
158 Jan Heufer
In Vino Veritas: The Economics of Drinking
157 Joseph Mensah, Joseph R. Oppong, and Christoph M. Schmidt
Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme in the Context of the Health MDGs - An Empirical Evaluation Using Propensity Score Matching
156 Manuel Frondel, Nolan Ritter, Christoph M. Schmidt, and Colin Vance
Economic Impacts from the Promotion of Renewable Energy Technologies - The German Experience
155 Torsten Schmidt and Simeon Vosen
Forecasting Private Consumption: Survey-based Indicators vs. Google Trends
154 Dirk Bethmann and Michael Kvasnicka
Why Are More Boys Born During War? - Evidence from Germany at Mid Century
153 Annika Meng
Do Parents Buy Their Children's Attention?
152 Annika Meng
Informal Home Care and Labor Force Participation of Household Members
151 Andrea Weber and Christine Zulehner
Female Hires and the Success of Start-up Firms
150 Matthias Keese
Triggers and Determinants of Severe Household Indebtedness in Germany
149 Julia Bredtmann, Jochen Kluve, and Sandra Schaffner
Women's Fertility and Employment Decisions under Two Political Systems - Comparing East and West Germany before Reunification
148 Ansgar Belke, Matthias Goecke, and Martin Guenther
When Does It Hurt? The Exchange Rate "Pain Threshold" for German Exports
147 Ansgar Belke, Gunther Schnabl, and Holger Zemanek
Real Convergence, Capital Flows, and Competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe
146 Andrea Weber and Christine Zulehner
Competition and Gender Prejudice: Are Discriminatory Employers Doomed to Fail?
145 Jochen Kluve and Marcus Tamm
Now Daddy's Changing Diapers and Mommy's Making Her Career - Evaluating a Generous Parental Leave Regulation Using a Natural Experiment
144 Katja Görlitz
The Effect of Subsidizing Continuous Training Investments - Evidence from German Establishment Data
143 Verena Eckl, Michael Rothgang, and Friederike Welter
Public Policy and Success of Business Start-ups in Germany
142 Alfredo R. Paloyo
Co-pay and Feel Okay: Evidence of Illusory Health Gains from a Health Insurance Reform
141 Thomas K. Bauer, Stefan Bender, Alfredo R. Paloyo, and Christoph M. Schmidt
Evaluating the Labor-Market Effects of Compulsory Military Service - A Regression-Discontinuity Approach
140 Wolfram F. Richter
Taxing Education in Ramsey's Tradition
139 Jochen Kluve, Sandra Schaffner and Christoph M. Schmidt
Labor Force Status Dynamics in the German Labor Market - Individual Heterogeneity and Cyclical Sensitivity
138 Manuel Frondel and Colin Vance
On Marginal and Interaction Effects: The Case of Heckit and Two-Part Models
137 Deborah A. Cobb-Clark and Mathias G. Sinning
Neighborhood Diversity and the Appreciation of Native- and Immigrant-Owned Homes
136 Jörg Peters
Evaluating Rural Electrification Projects - Methodological Approaches
135 Ansgar Belke and Andreas Rees
The Importance of Global Shocks for National Policy Makers - Rising Challenges for Central Banks
134 Joscha Beckmann, Ansgar Belke, and Michael Kühl
How Stable Are Monetary Models of the Dollar-Euro Exchange Rate? - A Time-varying Coefficient Approach
133 Ansgar Belke and Jens Klose
Does the ECB Rely on a Taylor Rule? - Comparing Ex-post with Real Time Data
132 Annika Herr, Hendrik Schmitz, and Boris Augurzky
Does Higher Cost Inefficiency Imply Higher Profit Inefficiency? - Evidence on Inefficiency and Ownership of German Hospitals
131 Ansgar Belke, Ingo Bordon, Inna Melnykovska, and Rainer Schweickert
Prospective NATO or EU Membership and Institutional Change in Transition Countries
130 Jörg Franke, Christian Kanzow,Wolfgang Leininger, and Alexandra Väth
Effort Maximization in Asymmetric N-person Contest Games
129 Verena Eckl and Dirk Engel
Benefiting from Publicly Funded Pre-competitive Research - Differences between Insiders and Outsiders
128 Ansgar Belke and Daniel Gros
A Simple Model of an Oil Based Global Savings Glut - The "China Factor" and the OPEC Cartel
127 Volker Clausen and Hannah Schürenberg-Frosch
Aid, Spending Strategies and Productivity Effects - A Multi-sectoral CGE Analysis for Zambia
126 Dirk Engel and Joel Stiebale
Private Equity, Investment and Financial Constraints - Firm-Level Evidence for France and the United Kingdom

125 Leilanie Basilio
Deciding Who Works Where - An Analysis of the Distribution of Work within Native and Immigrant Families in Australia
124 Ronald Bachmann and Peggy David
The Importance of Two-Sided Heterogeneity for the Cyclicality of Labour Market Dynamics
123 Boris Augurzky, Dirk Engel, Christoph M. Schmidt, and Christoph Schwierz
Ownership and Financial Performance in the German Hospital Sector
122 John P. Haisken-DeNew and Christoph M. Schmidt
Nickel and Dimed German Style: The Working Poor in Germany
121 John P. Haisken-DeNew and Matthias Vorell
Killing them with Kindness: Negative Distributional Externalities of Increasing UI Benefits
120 Christoph Schwierz, Ansgar Wübker, and Björn A. Kuchinke
The Impact of Private versus Social Health Insurance on Offered Waiting Times in German Acute Care Hospitals
119 Christoph Schwierz and Ansgar Wübker
Determinants of Avoidable Deaths from Ischaemic Heart Diseases in East and West Germany
118 Sandra Schaffner
Heterogeneity in the Cyclical Sensitivity of Job-to-Job Flows
117 Sonja C. Kassenboehmer and John Haisken-DeNew
Social Jealousy and Stigma: Negative Externalities of Social Assistance Payments in Germany
116 Jörg Franke and Tahir Öztürk
Conflict Networks
115 Markus Hörmann and Andreas Schabert
An Interest Rate Peg Might Be Better than You Think
114 Stefan Felder and Anja Olbrich
Dealing with Excessive Off-label Drug Use: Liability vs. Patent Prolongation
113 Lars Kunze
Capital Taxation, Long-run Growth, and Bequests
112 Stefan Felder and Harald Tauchmann
Regional Differences in the Efficiency of Health Production: an Artefact of Spatial Dependence?
111 Dirk Engel and Vivien Procher
Export, FDI and Productivity - Evidence for French Firms
110 Peter Grösche
Housing, Energy Cost, and the Poor - Counteracting Effects in Germany's Housing Allowance Program
109 Thomas K. Bauer and Mathias G. Sinning
The Purpose of Remittances - Evidence from Germany
108 Daniel Baumgarten
International Outsourcing, the Nature of Tasks, and Occupational Stability - Empirical Evidence for Germany
107 Michael Fertig, Christoph M. Schmidt, and Mathias G. Sinning
The Impact of Demographic Change on Human Capital Accumulation
106 Christoph Schwierz
Expansion in Markets with Decreasing Demand - For-Profits in the German Hospital Industry
105 Christoph Schwierz, Boris Augurzky, and Jürgen Wasem
Does the Quality of Hospital Treatment Vary by Days of the Week?
104 Manuel Frondel, Nolan Ritter, and Christoph M. Schmidt
Measuring Energy Supply Risks: A G7 Ranking
103 Manuel Frondel and Colin Vance
Driving for Fun? - A Comparison of Weekdays and Weekend Travel
102 Ansgar Belke, Ingo G. Bordon, and Torben W. Hendricks
Global Liquidity and Commodity Prices - A Cointegrated VAR Approach for OECD Countries
101 Albert G. Schweinberger and Jens Suedekum
De-Industrialisation, Entrepreneurial Industries and Welfare
100 Vivien Procher
Agglomeration Effects and the Location of Foreign Direct Investment - Evidence from French First-time Movers
099 Peter Grösche, Christoph M. Schmidt, and Colin Vance
Identifying Free-Riding in Energy-Conservation Programs Using Revealed Preference Data
098 Marcus Tamm
The Impact of a Large Parental Leave Benefit Reform on the Timing of Birth around the Day of Implementation
097 Marcus Tamm
Child Benefit Reform and Labor Market Participation
096 Björn Alecke, Timo Mitze, and Gerhard Untiedt
Internal Migration, Regional Labour Market Dynamics and Implications for German East-West Disparities - Results from a Panel VAR
095 Jan Brenner
Life-Cycle Variations in the Association between Current and Lifetime Earnings - Evidence for German Natives and Guest Workers
094 Ansgar Belke and Niklas Potrafke
Does Government Ideology Matter in Monetary Policy? - A Panel Data Analysis for OECD Countries
093 Sebastian Braun and Michael Kvasnicka
Men, Women, and the Ballot - Woman Suffrage in the United States
092 Yiquan Gu and Tobias Wenzel
Product Variety, Price Elasticity of Demand and Fixed Cost in Spatial Models
091 Christian Bredemeier and Falko Jüßen
Household Labor Supply and Home Services in a General-Equilibrium Model with Heterogeneous Agents
090 Lars Kunze and Christiane Schuppert
Financing Social Security by Taxing Capital Income - A Bad Idea?
089 Colin Vance and Markus Mehlin
Tax Policy and CO2 Emissions - An Econometric Analysis of the German Automobile Market
088 Ansgar Belke
Fiscal Stimulus Packages and Uncertainty in Times of Crisis - The Option of Waiting Can Be Valuable, Though!
087 Katja Goerlitz
The Development of Employers' Training Investments Over Time - A Decomposition Analysis Using German Establishment Data
086 David Card, Jochen Kluve, and Andrea Weber
Active Labor Market Policy Evaluations - A Meta-analysis
085 Ansgar Belke and Yuhua Cui
US-Euro Area Monetary Policy Interdependence - New Evidence from Taylor Rule Based VECMs
084 Timo Mitze, Björn Alecke, and Gerhard Untiedt
Trade-FDI Linkages in a System of Gravity Equations for German Regional Data
083 Timo Mitze
Endogeneity in Panel Data Models with Time-Varying and Time-Fixed Regressors: To IV or not IV?
082 Christian Schwarz and Uwe Stroinski
Is there a Walrasian Equilibrium in Exchange Markets with Endowment Effect?

2008
081 Manuel Frondel, Christoph M. Schmidt and Colin Vance
Emissions Trading: Impact on Electricity Prices and Energy-Intensive Industries
080 Roland Döhrn, Christoph M. Schmidt and Tobias Zimmermann
Inflation Forecasting with Inflation Sentiment Indicators
079 Thomas K. Bauer, Jochen Kluve, Sandra Schaffner, and Christoph M. Schmidt
Fiscal Effects of Minimum Wages - An Analysis for Germany
078 Yiquan Gu
Imperfect Certification
077 Mario Jovanovic and Tobias Zimmermann
Stock Market Uncertainty and Monetary Policy Reaction Functions of the Federal Reserve Bank
076 Hendrik Schmitz
Do Optional Deductibles Reduce the Number of Doctor Visits? - Empirical Evidence with German Data
075 Thomas K. Bauer and Christoph M. Schmidt
WTP vs. WTA: Christmas Presents and the Endowment Effect
074 Christoph Schwierz, Boris Augurzky, Axel Focke, and Jürgen Wasem
Demand, Selection and Patient Outcomes in German Acute Care Hospitals
073 Stefan Felder, Andreas Werblow and Peter Zweifel
Do Red Herrings Swim in Circles? - Controlling for the Endogeneity of Time to Death
072 Manuel Frondel and Colin Vance
Do High Oil Prices Matter? - Evidence on the Mobility Behavior of German Households
071 Stefanie Schurer
Discrete Heterogeneity in the Impact of Health Shocks on Labour Market Outcomes
070 Jan Heufer
Stochastic Revealed Preference and Rationalizability
069 Jan Heufer
A Geometric Measure for the Violation of Utility Maximization
068 Oliver Holtemöller and Torsten Schmidt
Identifying Sources of Business Cycle Fluctuations in Germany 1975-1998
067 Stefan Bender, Michael Fertig, Katja Görlitz, Martina Huber, and Alexandra Schmucker
WeLL - Unique Linked Employer-Employee Data on Further Training in Germany
066 Jens Südekum
National Champion Versus Foreign Takeover
065 Torge Middendorf
Returns to Education in Europe - Detailed Results from a Harmonized Survey
064 Silja Göhlmann and Christoph M. Schmidt
Smoking in Germany: Stylized Facts, Behavioral Models, and Health Policy
063 Sonja C. Kassenboehmer and John P. Haisken-DeNew
You're Fired! The Causal Negative Effect of Unemployment on Life Satisfaction
062 Ansgar Belke and Daniel Gros
Is Fiscal Policy Coordination Needed in a Common Currency Area?
061 Harald Tauchmann
West-East Convergence in the Prevalence of Illicit Drugs: Socioeconomics or Culture?
060 Peter Grösche
Measuring Residential Energy Efficiency Improvements with DEA
059 Michael Rothgang
Sectoral Innovation Systems, Corporate Strategies, and Competitiveness of the German Economy in a Globalised World
058 Peter Grösche and Colin Vance
Willingness-to-Pay for Energy Conservation and Free-Ridership on Subsidization - Evidence from Germany
057 Stefanie Schurer
Labour Market Outcomes of Second Generation Immigrants: How Heterogeneous Are They Really?
056 Lena Jacobi and Sandra Schaffner
Does Marginal Employment Substitute Regular Employment? - A Heterogeneous Dynamic Labor Demand Approach for Germany
055 Michael W.M. Roos and Wolfgang J. Luhan
As if or What? - Expectations and Optimization in a Simple Macroeconomic Environment
054 Michael W.M. Roos and Wolfgang J. Luhan
Are Expectations Formed by the Anchoring-and-adjustment Heuristic? - An Experimental Investigation
053 Ronald Bachmann and Sebastian Braun
The Impact of International Outsourcing on Labour Market Dynamics in Germany
052 Manuel Frondel and Christoph M. Schmidt
Measuring Energy Security - A Conceptual Note
051 Joel Stiebale
Do Financial Constraints Matter for Foreign Market Entry? - A Firm-Level Examination
050 Joel Stiebale and Frank Reize
The Impact of FDI on Innovation in Target Firms
049 Wolfgang Leininger
Evolutionarily Stable Preferences in Contests
048 Christian Bayer and Christoph Hanck
Is Double Trouble? - How to Combine Cointegration Tests
047 John P. Haisken-DeNew and Matthias Vorell
Blood Money: Incentives for Violence in NHL Hockey
046 Boris Augurzky and Harald Tauchmann
Less Social Health Insurance - More Private Supplementary Insurance? - Empirical Evidence from Germany
045 Stephan Popp
A Nonlinear Unit Root Test in the Presence of an Unknown Break
044 Manuel Frondel, Christoph M. Schmidt and Colin Vance
A Regression on Climate Policy - The European Commission's Proposal to Reduce CO2 Emissions from Transport
043 Colin Vance and Rich Iovanna
Cities and Satellites: Spatial Effects and Unobserved Heterogeneity in the Modeling of Urban Growth
042 Sebastian Braun and Michael Kvasnicka
Against All Odds? - National Sentiment and Wagering on European Football
041 Katja Görlitz and Joel Stiebale
Does Product Market Competition Decrease Employers' Training Investments? - Evidence from German Establishment Panel Data
040 Manuel Frondel, Nolan Ritter, and Christoph M. Schmidt
Germany's Solar Cell Promotion: Dark Clouds on the Horizon
039 Emilia Del Bono, Andrea Weber, and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
Clash of Career and Family - Fertility Decisions after Job Displacement
038 Jörg Peters and Sascha Thielmann
Promoting Biofuels: Implications for Developing Countries

2007
037 Ansgar Belke and Walter Orth
Global Excess Liquidity and House Prices - A VAR Analysis for OECD Countries
036 Jan Heufer
Revealed Preference and the Number of Commodities
035 Jochen Kluve, Hilmar Schneider, Arne Uhlendorff, and Zhong Zhao
Evaluating Continuous Training Programs Using the Generalized Propensity Score
034 Harald Tauchmann, Silja Göhlmann, Till Requate, and Christoph M. Schmidt
Tobacco and Alcohol: Complements or Substitutes? - A Structural Model Approach
033 Yiquan Gu and Tobias Wenzel
A Note on the Excess Entry Theorem in Spatial Models with Elastic Demand
032 Manuel Frondel, Jörg Peters, and Colin Vance
Identifying the Rebound - Evidence from a German Household Panel
031 John P. Haisken-DeNew and Mathias Sinning
Social Deprivation and Exclusion of Immigrants in Germany
030 Mathias Sinning
Wealth and Asset Holdings of Immigrants in Germany
029 Torsten Schmidt and Tobias Zimmermann
Why are the Effects of Recent Oil Price Shocks so Small?
028 Jochen Kluve and Sandra Schaffner
Gender Wage Differentials and the Occupational Injury Risk - Evidence from Germany and the US
027 Silja Göhlmann
The Determinants of Smoking Initiation - Empirical Evidence for Germany
026 Silja Göhlmann
Who Smokes and How Much? - Empirical Evidence for Germany
025 Jan Brenner
Effects of Job Entry Restrictions on Economic Integration - Evidence for Recent Ethnic German Immigrants
024 Leilanie Basilio, Thomas K. Bauer and Mathias Sinning
Analyzing the Labor Market Activity of Immigrant Families in Germany
023 Mathias Sinning
Determinants of Savings and Remittances - Empirical Evidence from Immigrants to Germany
022 Jan Brenner
Parental Impact on Attitude Formation - A Siblings Study on Worries about Immigration
021 Ansgar Belke and Julia Spies
Enlarging the EMU to the east: What effects on trade?
020 Michael Fertig and Stefanie Schurer
Labour Market Outcomes of Immigrants in Germany - The Importance of Heterogeneity and Attrition Bias
019 Jörg Plewka
Fiscal Discrimination Between Consumer Groups: Tax Burden Distribution Under Price Discrimination
018 Menelaos Karanasos and Stefanie Schurer
Is the Relationship Between Inflation and its Uncertainty Linear?
017 Ralf Dewenter and Justus Haucap
Demand Elasticities for Mobile Telecommunications in Austria
016 Kai A. Konrad and Wolfgang Leininger
Self-enforcing Norms and the Efficient Non-cooperative Organization of Clans
015 Sebastian Rausch and Thomas F. Rutherford
Computation of Equilibria in OLG Models with Many Heterogeneous Households
014 Hannes Spengler and Sandra Schaffner
Using Job Changes to Evaluate the Bias of the Value of a Statistical Life
013 Tobias Wenzel
Liberalization of Opening Hours with Free Entry
012 Wolfram F. Richter
Taxing Human Capital Efficiently - The Double Dividend of Taxing Nonqualified Labour More Heavily Than Qualified Labour
011 Colin Vance and Rich Iovanna
Gender and the Automobile - An Analysis of Non-work Service Trips
010 Torge Middendorf
The Impact of Cohort Size and Local Labor Market Conditions on Human Capital Accumulation in Europe
009 Justus Haucap, Uwe Pauly and Christian Wey
A Cartel Analysis of the German Labor Institutions and Its Implications for Labor Market Reforms
008 Andrew M. Jones and Stefanie Schurer
How Does Heterogeneity Shape the Socioeconomic Gradient in Health Satisfaction?
007 Dirk Engel and Torge Middendorf
Investment, Internal Funds and Public Banking in Germany
006 Thomas K. Bauer, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Vincent Hildebrand, and Mathias Sinning
A Comparative Analysis of the Nativity Wealth Gap
005 Ronald Bachmann and Michael C. Burda
Sectoral Transformation, Turbulence, and Labor Market Dynamics in Germany
004 Wolfgang Leininger and Axel Ockenfels
The Penalty-Duel and Institutional Design: Is there a Neeskens-Effect?
003 Panu Poutvaara and Lars-H.R. Siemers
Smoking and Social Interaction
002 Annika Frohloff
Cost and Technical Efficiency of German Hospitals - A Stochastic Frontier Analysis
001 Christoph M. Schmidt
Policy Evaluation and Economic Policy Advice


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