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The relationships between costs and user charges : the case of a Norwegian utility service

Borge, Lars-Erik; Rattsø, Jørn - 2003

The paper investigates the relationships between costs and user charges in the sewage industry in Norwegian local governments. The purpose of the analysis is to answer the following questions: (i) To what extent is a higher unit cost passed on to consumers in terms of a higher user charge? (ii)...

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Income distribution and tax structure : microeconomic test of the Meltzer-Richard hypothesis

Borge, Lars-Erik; Rattsø, Jørn - 2001

structure in decentralized government in Norway. The choice of revenue instruments studied involves user charges and property …

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Efficiency potential and efficiency variation in Norwegian lower secondary schools

Borge, Lars-Erik (contributor); … - 2005

The paper performs an efficiency analysis of the lower secondary school sector in Norway. The efficiency potential is …

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Quantifying Brexit : from ex post to ex ante using structural gravity

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Gröschl, Jasmin Katrin; … - 2018

Exploiting changes in the geography of economic integration in Europe, this paper uses detailed bilateral trade data for 50 sectors to carry out an econometric ex post evaluation of the trade cost effects of the United Kingdom's various arrangements with the European Union. The analysis reveals...

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Dissecting between-plant and within-plant wage dispersion : evidence from Germany

Baumgarten, Daniel; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Lehwald, Sybille - 2018

Using rich linked employer-employee data for (West) Germany between 1996 and 2014, we analyze the most important … the sources of the recent slowdown in German wage inequality and compare the results for West Germany to the ones for East … Germany. We disentangle the relative contribution of each single variable to the rise in wage dispersion using recentered …

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Margins of international banking : is there a productivity Pecking order in banking, too?

Buch, Claudia M.; Koch, Cathérine Tahmee; Kötter, Michael - 2009

Modern trade theory emphasizes firm-level productivity differentials to explain the cross-border activities of non-financial firms. This study tests whether a productivity pecking order also determines international banking activities. Using a novel dataset that contains all German banks'...

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Mitigating liquidity constraints : public export credit guarantees in Germany

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Heiland, Inga; Yalçin, Erdal - 2012

guarantees in Germany. Covering the default risk of exporters' foreign customers, the policy is supposed to enable funding of …

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Firm dynamics and residual inequality in open economies

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Giammario, Impullitti; Prat, Julien - 2014

Increasing wage inequality between similar workers plays an important role for overall inequality trends in industrialized societies. To analyze this pattern, we incorporate directed labor market search into a dynamic model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers....

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Do better capitalized banks lend less? : long-run panel evidence from Germany

Buch, Claudia M.; Prieto, Esteban - 2012

Insufficient capital buffers of banks have been identified as one main cause for the large systemic effects of the recent financial crisis. Although higher capital is no panacea, it yet features prominently in proposals for regulatory reform. But how do increased capital requirements affect...

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