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Goerke, Laszlo - 2010

In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage … evidence for a private gain from trade union membership which has hitherto not been documented: in West Germany, union members …

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How Strongly Did the 2007/08 Oil Price Hike Contribute to the Subsequent Recession?

Carstensen, Kai - 2011

What were the economic consequences of the 2007/08 oil price hike for Germany? In this paper we use a structural vector …

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Total Instructional Time Exposure and Student Achievement : An Extreme Bounds Analysis Based on German State-Level Variation

Mandel, Philipp - 2011

Using pooled data on instructional time and student performance by subject, our study finds evidence for the school inputs-student achievement relationship for German states. This finding is robust both to the inclusion of state fixed effects and in an extensive extreme bounds analysis. It...

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Long Memory in German Energy Price Indices

Barros, Carlos Pestana - 2012

This study examines the long-memory properties of German energy price indices (specifically, import and export prices, as well as producer and consumer prices) for hard coal, lignite, mineral oil and natural gas adopting a fractional integration modelling framework. The analysis is undertaken...

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Expectations as Reference Points : Field Evidence from Experienced Subjects in a Competitive, High-Stakes Environment

Bartling, Björn - 2012

We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee's assignment of cards,...

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Bounds of Unfair Inequality of Opportunity : Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US

Niehues, Judith - 2012

illustrate our approach by comparing Germany and the US based on harmonized micro data. We find significant, sizeable and robust …

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Exchange Rate Expectations of Chartists and Fundamentalists

Dick, Christian David - 2013

This paper provides novel evidence on exchange rate expectations of both chartists and fundamentalists separately. These groups indeed form expectations differently. Chartists change their expectations more often; however, all professionals' expectations vary considerably as they generally...

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The Ifo Investment Database

Strobel, Thomas - 2013

In this paper we present the Ifo Investment Database, which provides annual investment data for 12 investment assets in 50 German industries from 1991 onward. The data is consistent with national accounts statistics provided by the German Federal Statistical Office and is based on investments in...

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Assessing the Macroeconomic Forecasting Performance of Boosting - Evidence for the United States, the Euro Area, and Germany

Buchen, Teresa - 2013

to the fit. Using data for the United States, the euro area and Germany, we assess the performance of boosting when …

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Sustainability of German Fiscal Policy and Public Debt : Historical and Time Series Evidence for the Period 1850-2010

Burret, Heiko - 2013

default. Due to a multitude of large scale events in its past, Germany is far from being an exception: In fact, Germany … Germany's public finances against the standard theoretical back‐ground using a unique database, retrieved from multiple …, contradicting the historical perception of Germany as the poster child of European public finance. Given these corresponding breaks …

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