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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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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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From politics to the family : how sex-role attitudes keep on diverging in reunified Germany

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Rainer, Helmut - 2010

this background, we empirically investigate gender-role attitudes in reunified Germany. Our results show that East Germans …

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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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Equity price dynamics before and after the introduction of the euro : a note

Cheung, Yin-Wong; Westermann, Frank - 2001

Daily data from the German and U.S. equity markets before and after the introduction of the Euro are used to study the effect of exchange rate regime choices on equity markets. It is found that, since the introduction of the Euro, the volatility and the persistence of the German stock index have...

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Credibility and transparency of Central Banks : new results based on Ifo s world economicy survey

Hamella, Sandra; Haan, Jakob de - 2004

This paper reports the results of a survey among private sector economists about credibility and transparency of central banks. In line with the survey of Alan Blinder among central bankers, we asked participants in Ifo s World Economic Survey to answer questions on the importance and...

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Direct evidence for income comparisons and subjective well-being across reference groups

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2015

This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB...

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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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