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Talk or Text? Evaluating Response Rates by Remote Survey Method during COVID-19

Amaral, Sofia; Dinarte, Lelys; Domínguez, Patricio; … - 2022

Researchers and policy makers face significant challenges in selecting a method to conduct remote surveys, especially when collecting sensitive information or during turbulent life stages of hard-to-reach groups. In the context of the COVID-19 lockdown, we randomly selected about 600 adults in...

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Can Television Reduce Xenophobia? The Case of East Germany

Hornuf, Lars; Rieger, Marc Oliver; Hartmann, Sven Alfred - 2022

Can television have a mitigating effect on xenophobia? To explore this question, we investigate a natural experiment in which individuals in some regions of East Germany could not—due to their geographic location—consume West German television until 1989. By analyzing survey data from the...

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Won't Get Fooled Again : A Supervised Machine Learning Approach for Screening Gasoline Cartels

Silveira, Douglas; Vasconcelos, Silvinha; Resende, Marcelo - 2021

In this article, we combine machine learning techniques with statistical moments of the gasoline price distribution. By doing so, we aim to detect and predict cartels in the Brazilian retail market. In addition to the traditional variance screen, we evaluate how the standard deviation,...

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The Role of Information and Experience for Households’ Inflation Expectations

Conrad, Christian; Enders, Zeno; Glas, Alexander - 2021

Based on a new survey of German households, we investigate the role of information channels and lifetime experience for households' inflation expectations. We show that the types of information channels that households use to inform themselves about monetary policy are closely related to their...

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The Price and Employment Response of Firms to the Introduction of Minimum Wages

Link, Sebastian - 2021

This paper studies the price and employment response of firms to the introduction of a nation-wide minimum wage in Germany. In line with previous studies, the estimated employment effect is only modestly negative and statistically insignificant. In contrast, affected firms increased prices much...

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Determinants of Trust : the Role of Personal Experiences

Schwerter, Frederik; Zimmermann, Florian - 2021

Social interactions pervade daily life and thereby create an abundance of social experiences. Such personal experiences likely shape what we believe and who we are. In this paper, we ask if and how personal experiences from social interactions determine individuals’ inclination to trust...

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International Corporate Tax Avoidance : A Review of the Channels, Magnitudes, and Blind Spots

Beer, Sebastian; Mooij, Ruud A. de; Liu, Li - 2021

This paper reviews the rapidly growing empirical literature on international tax avoidance by multinational corporations. It surveys evidence on main channels of corporate tax avoidance including transfer mispricing, international debt shifting, treaty shopping, tax deferral and corporate...

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Structural Interpretation of Vector Autoregressions with Incomplete Information : Revisiting the Role of Oil Supply and Demand Shocks: Comment

Kilian, Lutz; Zhou, Xiaoqing - 2021

Recently, Baumeister and Hamilton (henceforth: BH) have argued that existing studies of the global oil market fail to account for uncertainty about their identifying assumptions. They recommend an alternative econometric approach intended to address this concern by formulating priors on the...

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How Much Binding is the Bill?

Cafiso, Gianluca; Cellini, Roberto - 2021

We study whether and how much the interest bill conditions the size and composition of public expenditures. The group of EU 15 countries over the 1995-2016 period is the object of analysis. We study both total public expenditures and public expenditures by function of government in order to...

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How to Measure Research Efficiency in Higher Education? Research Grants vs. Publication Output

Gralka, Sabine; Wohlrabe, Klaus; Bornmann, Lutz - 2021

An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research output in the empirical analysis. While several studies chose to use the number of publications, others rely on the overall amount of research grants. The present study...

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