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Explaining export success in the UK and German medical equipment industry

Anderton, Bob; Schultz, Siegfried - 1999

This paper aims to provide understanding of the relative trade performances and technological competitiveness, with particular emphasis on product quality, innovation and skills. The firm-level case studies support the conclusions arising from the aggregate analysis. Germany spends more on...

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Consumer price adjustment under the microscope : Germany in a period of low inflation

Hoffmann, Johannes (contributor); … - 2006

We analyse the adjustment of retail and services prices in a period of low inflation, using a set of individual price … data from the German Consumer Price Index which covers the years 1998 to 2003. We strong find evidence of time- and state …-dependent price adjustment. Most importantly, the differences in unconditionalʺ sectoral price flexibility are found to be linked to …

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Stationarity changes in long-run fossil resource prices : evidence from persistence break testing

Zaklan, Aleksandar; Abrell, Jan; Neumann, Anne - 2011

This paper considers the question of whether changes in persistence have occurred during the long-run evolution of U.S. prices of the non-renewable energy resources crude oil, natural gas and bituminous coal. Our main contribution is to allow for a structural break when testing for a break in...

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Responsive adjustment of feed-in tariffs to dynamic PV technology development

Grau, Thilo - 2012

This paper reviews the adjustments of the feed-in tariff for new solar photovoltaics (PV) installations in Germany. As PV system prices declined rapidly over the last years, the German government implemented automatic mechanisms to adjust the support level for new installations in response to...

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Measuring regional inequality by internet car price advertisements : evidence for Germany

Cholodilin, Konstantin Arkadʹevič; Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2010

We suggest to use Internet car sale price advertisements for measuring economic inequality between and within German … price advertisements ; economic inequality ; German NUTS1 and NUTS regions ; Gini index ; Internet …

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Spatial competition and pass-through of fuel taxes : evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in Germany

Waldow, Frederik von; Link, Heike - 2024

This paper analyses the pass-through rates and their determinants of the temporary German fuel discount in 2022 at its start and its termination. Based on a unique dataset of fuel station characteristics and prices, we employ a Regression Discontinuity in Time (RDiT) methodology to estimate...

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Technology portfolio and market value

Schmidt-Ehmcke, Jens (contributor); … - 2008

This paper discusses the impact of a firm's technology portfolio on its market value. Two concepts are used to characterize a firm's portfolio: the number of technological fields and the degree of relatedness within the portfolio characterized by the amount of joint occurrences of patents in...

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Employment effects of welfare reforms : evidence from a dynamic structural life-cycle model

Haan, Peter (contributor); Prowse, Victoria (contributor); … - 2008

In this paper we develop a dynamic structural life-cycle model of labor supply behavior which fully accounts for the effects of income tax and transfers on labor supply incentives. Additionally, the model recognizes the demand side driven rationing risk that might prevent individuals from...

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Preferences for childcare policies : theory and evidence

Borck, Rainald (contributor); … - 2008

We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from...

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Optimal income taxation of married couples : an empirical analysis of joint and individual taxation

Haan, Peter (contributor); Navarro, Dolores (contributor) - 2008

In this paper we develop a discrete model of optimal taxation of married couples and empirically discuss the optimality of income taxation for this group. To this end, we derive the social welfare function which guarantees that joint taxation of married couples is optimal. We will contrast this...

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