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Location choice and employment decisions : a comparison of German and Swedish multinationals

Becker, Sascha O.; Ekholm, Karolina; Jäckle, Robert; … - 2005

strongest with respect to affiliate employment in Western Europe. A one percent larger wage gap between Germany and locations in …

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Tax incentives, bequest motives, and the demand for life insurance : evidence from two natural experiments in Germany

Sauter, Nicolas; Walliser, Jan; Winter, Joachim - 2010

-insurance demand. An unanticipated tax reform in 2000 halved the tax exemption limit for capital income in Germany. We document that …

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Measuring individual risk attitudes in the lab : task or ask? ; an empirical comparison

Lönnqvist, Jan-Erik; Verkasalo, Markku; Walkowitz, Gari; … - 2014

This paper compares two prominent empirical measures of individual risk attitudes - the Holt and Laury (2002) lottery-choice task and the multi-item questionnaire advocated by Dohmen, Falk, Huffman, Schupp, Sunde and Wagner (2011) - with respect to (a) their within-subject stability over time...

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Conspicuous consumption and communism : evidence from East and West Germany

Friehe, Tim; Mechtel, Mario - 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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Assessing the macroeconomic forecasting performance of boosting : evidence for the United States, the Euro Area, and Germany

Buchen, Teresa; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 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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Analyzing educational achievement differences between second-generation immigrants : comparing Germany and German-speaking Switzerland

Kunz, Johannes - 2014

-speaking Switzerland is greater than in Germany. The impact of the first-generation immigrants' destination decision on their offspring …

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Apprenticeship, vocational training and early labor market outcomes : in East and West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Zibrowius, Michael - 2015

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

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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; Schunk, Daniel; Winter, Joachim - 2009

; public opinion poll ; PAYG pension system ; East Germany …

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Subprime crisis and board (in-)competence : private vs. public banks in Germany

Hau, Harald; Thum, Marcel - 2009

We examine evidence for a systematic underperformance of Germany's state-owned banks in the current financial crisis …

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Complementarity of innovation policies in the Brazilian industry : an econometric study

Strube, Eduardo; Resende, Marcelo - 2009

The paper aims at assessing discrete complementarities in innovation policies in the context of the Brazilian industry in 2003. The paper considers the approach advanced by Mohnen and and Röller [European Economic Review, 2005] that focuses on supermodularity and submodularity tests for...

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