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Gerechtigkeit und Verteilungswirkungen der Gesundheitsreform 2007
Honekamp, Ivonne; Rehmann, Adelheid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Discussions of health care reforms are always tightly connected with the question of ensuring equity in financing health care. This paper analyses the German health care reform 2007 and its effect on the equity of health care financing. To do this Rawls’ and Nozick’s perceptions of justice...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008595624
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The Economic Effects of the Protestant Reformation: Testing the Weber Hypothesis in the German Lands
Cantoni, Davide - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Following Max Weber, many theories have hypothesized that Protestantism should have favored economic development. With its religious heterogeneity, the Holy Roman Empire presents an ideal testing ground for this hypothesis. Using population figures of 272 cities in the years 1300–1900, I find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210862
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Das ökonomische und politische Dilemma Europas
Mavrozacharakis, Emmanouil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Abstract Englisch Apparently the European economic model being subjected to a double competition problem. On the one hand, there are enormous differences in the level of competitiveness of the various member countries of the euro area and the EU among themselves. In the long term this Problem...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212950
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Working in Southern Europe in Times of Crisis – Myths and Demons.
Tsatsos, Aristidis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Citizens of Southern Europe have been presented by the German media and politicians as lazy and work aversive. First, it is checked whether and to what extent those characterizations do reflect reality, and then, in view of the Greek economic crisis, it is shown that crises and not laziness...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258684
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Unbundling the Great European Recession (2009-2013): Unemployment, Consumption, Investment, Inflation and Current Account
Campiglio, Luigi Pierfranco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
between investment and unemployment, c) we show the revival of the Phillips curve, especially in Germany, d) we test for the … products, looking to the case of Italy, m) we analyze the trade relationship between Germany and China, arguing that since the … the Germany’s export led growth model is raised. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261122
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Strategies for Managing Bank’s Legacy Assets:part 2 (of 2) Assessment of strategies and their implementation
Jenk, Justin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This two-part working paper series represents a distillation of practical approaches with regard to the successful management of so-called “legacy assets” which include both impaired as well as non-performing loans, particularly in those in the real estate and property sectors. This two-part...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265335
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Relative Inequality and Poverty in Germany and the United States Using Alternative Equivalence Scales
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Smeeding, Timothy M.; Merz, Joachim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994
-specific equivalence scales developed for Germany and the United States by Merz et al. (1993). We verify previous studies that show that … inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079301
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Equivalence Scales Based on Revealed Preference Consumption Expenditure Microdata - The Case of West Germany
Merz, Joachim; Faik, Jürgen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994
Germany 1983. It is a part of a joint US and German research project comparing equivalence scales with consistent methods and … Germany based on actual available individual consumption expenditure data shows a variety of interesting results with regard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079335
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The Impact of German Job Protection Legislation on Job Creation in Small Establishments - An Application of the Regression Discontinuity Design
Burgert, Derik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
One proposal frequently raised to increase flexibility of the German labour market is the liberalization of the job protection law. It applies to those establishments with more than a cut-off number of employees. The argument examined in this paper is that this step in legal regulation hinders...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260162
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The role of the external auditor in bank regulation and supervision: A comparative analysis between the UK, Germany, Italy and the US
Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
the UK, Germany, Italy and the US. The importance of harmonisation in achieving stated supervisory objectives is also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009226824