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Conspicuous Consumption and Communism : Evidence from East and West Germany

Friehe, Tim - 2012

use the separation of Germany into the communist GDR and the democratic FRG and its reunification in 1990 as a natural … experiment. Relying on household data that are representative for Germany, our empirical results strongly indicate that … conspicuous consumption is relatively more important in East Germany. Importantly, a significant gap in conspicuous consumption …

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Tear Down this Wall : On the Persistence of Borders in Trade

Nitsch, Volker - 2009

Why do borders still matter for economic activity? The reunification of Germany in 1990 provides a unique natural … to trade between East Germany and West Germany were eliminated completely within a very short period of time. The …

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Don't Raise the Retirement Age! An Experiment on Opposition to Pension Reforms and East-West Differences in Germany

Scheubel, Beatrice - 2009

For policy reforms to increase a society's welfare, reliable information on people's prefer-ences and expectations is crucial. Representative opinion polls, often involving simplified questions about the complex topics under debate, are an important source of information for both policy-makers...

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Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution

Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2008

Multinational labor demand responds to wage differentials at the extensive margin, when a multinational enterprise (MNE) expands into foreign locations, and at the intensive margin, when an MNE operates existing affiliates across locations. We derive conditions for parametric and nonparametric...

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Work Incentives? Ex Post Effects of Unemployment Insurance Sanctions - Evidence from West Germany

Hofmann, Barbara - 2008

recipients to stay unemployed. Empirical evidence about the effects of UI sanctions in Germany is sparse. Using administrative … data we investigate the effects of sanctions on the reemployment probability in West Germany for individuals who entered UI …

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The Impact of Thin Capitalization Rules on the Location of Multinational Firms' Foreign Affiliates

Merlo, Valeria - 2015

This paper examines how restrictions on the tax-deductibility of interest cost affect location choices of multinational corporations (MNCs). Many countries have introduced so-called thin-capitalization rules (TCRs) to prevent MNCs from shifting tax base to countries with lower tax rates. As of...

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Going Offshore : Investments in German Wind Energy Under Uncertainty

Chen, Yu-Fu - 2015

energy deployment. The numerical results reveal that the long term subsidies in Germany set prices that provide higher …

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Apprenticeship, Vocational Training and Early Labor Market Outcomes - In East and West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T. - 2015

differences for different types of vocational training, minor differences between East and West Germany and males and females, and …

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Do Stringent Environmental Policies Deter FDI? M&A versus Greenfield

Bialek, Sylwia - 2015

This study examines how environmental stringency affects the location decision of foreign direct investments. We analyze a firm-level data set on German outbound FDI and innovate on previous studies by controlling for the mode of entry and applying the mixed-logit analysis. The results show that...

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Foreign Ownership and the Extensive Margins of Exports : Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises in Germany

Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - 2021

exports and take this model to data from Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods. In line with …

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