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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 - CESifo - 2009

For policy reforms to increase a society's welfare, reliable information on people's prefer-ences and expectations is crucial. Representative opinion polls, often involving simplified questions about the complex topics under debate, are an important source of information for both policy-makers...

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How Efficient is the East German Economy? An Exploration With Micro Data

Funke, Michael; Rahn, Jörg - CESifo - 2000

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency of the East German economy at the firm level using an … efficiency in eastern and western Germany. The results indicate that firms in eastern Germany are significantly less efficient …-level efficiency. …

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The Employment of Mothers - Recent Developments and their Determinants in East and West Germany

Hanel, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - CESifo - 2010

We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences disappear over time, and whether there are differences...

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Good Institutions are not enough: Ongoing Challenges of East German Development

Carlin, Wendy - CESifo - 2010

A major theme in accounts of the transitional recession and delayed convergence in post-communist economies is the role of institutions. Yet via unification, East Germany had immediate access to credible, high quality institutions. This paper argues that success in a capitalist economy depends...

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Urban Shrinkage in Eastern Germany

Bartholomae, Florian W.; Nam, Chang Woon; Schoenberg, Alina - CESifo - 2015

This paper questions the widely applied parallelism of demographic and economic development in characterizing urban shrinkage in Germany, and argues that the usage of population change as a single indicator leads to incorrect policy recommendations for combating urban shrinkage. As the cases of...

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Demographic Change and Bank Profitability. Empirical Evidence from German Savings Banks

Berlemann, Michael; Oestmann, Marco; Thum, Marcel - CESifo - 2010

, allows us estimating the socio-demographic determinants of retail profitability. Using a simulation model, we are able to … predict the development of bank profitability due to demographic shifts up to 2025. One of the main findings is that the … the population reduces the customer base, ageing per se increases profitability as older customers typically generate …

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Competition and Gender Prejudice: Are Discriminatory Employers Doomed to Fail?

Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - CESifo - 2009

workers forgo profits by submitting to their tastes. In a competitive market their firms lack efficiency and are therefore …

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The Scope of Auctions in the Presence of Downstream Interactions and Information Externalities

Koska, Onur A.; Onur, Ilke; Stähler, Frank - CESifo - 2015

We scrutinize the scope of auctions in the presence of downstream interactions and information externalities by using the topical example of a firm acquisition. We show that no mechanism exists that allows an investor to acquire a low-cost firm under incomplete information: a separating auction...

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External Constraints Matter for Privatizations

Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - CESifo - 2014

We present an analysis of the share of public ownership in the product market in the OECD countries from 1974 to 2007. Despite much has been said on the broad topic of reforms and regulation, a sector-specific insight is missing. We replicate the analysis of Galasso (2014) by sector of activity...

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Government Outsourcing: Public Contracting with Private Monopoly

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Picard, Pierre M. - CESifo - 2006

The paper studies the impact of government budget constraint in a pure adverse selection problem of monopoly regulation. The government maximizes total surplus but incurs some cost of public funds. An alternative to regulation is proposed in which firms are free to enter the market and to choose...

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