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The Stress of Having a Single Monetary Policy in Europe

Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Wollmershäuser, Timo - CESifo - 2008

This paper estimates forward-looking Taylor rules for the euro area. Using the asymmetries in inflation and cyclical output developments across countries, we investigate the adequacy of the single monetary policy for each of the European Monetary Union (EMU) member countries. Notable differences...

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Strategic Complementarity, Fragility, and Regulation

Vives, Xavier - CESifo - 2011

intermediary, parameters of the information structure (precisions of public and private information), and the level of stress …

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Pharmaceutical Innovation, Longevity, and Medical Expenditure in Greece, 1995-2010

Lichtenberg, Frank - CESifo - 2015

death), hospital utilization, and medical expenditure in Greece during the period 1995-2010. The estimates indicate that … the number of hospital days. Real per capita pharmaceutical expenditure increased rapidly during this period, but 62% of … the increase in pharmaceutical expenditure was offset by a reduction in hospital expenditure attributable to …

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Being Independent is a Great Thing: Subjective Evaluations of Self-Employment and Hierarchy

Frey, Bruno S.; Benz, Matthias - CESifo - 2003

One can be independent, or subject to decisions made by others. This paper empirically tests whether individuals attach an intrinsic value to the institutional difference between independence and hierarchy. Taking self-employment as an important case of independence, it is shown that the...

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Why so Unhappy? The Effects of Unionisation on Job Satisfaction

Bryson, Alex; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Lucifora, Claudio - CESifo - 2005

We use linked employer-employee data to investigate the job satisfaction effect of unionisation in Britain. We depart from previous studies by developing a model that simultaneously controls for the endogeneity of union membership and union recognition. We show that a negative association...

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Job Mobility and the Gender Wage Gap in Italy

Bono, Emilia Del; Vuri, Daniela - CESifo - 2008

This paper investigates the way in which job mobility contributes to the emergence of a gender wage gap in the Italian labour market. We show that men experience higher wage growth than women during the first 10 years of their career, and that this difference is particularly large when workers...

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Vignette Equivalence and Response Consistency; The Case of Job Satisfaction

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M.S. Van; … - CESifo - 2011

We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by...

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Financing and Funding Health Care: Optimal Policy and Political Implementability

Nuscheler, Robert; Roeder, Kerstin - CESifo - 2014

Health care financing and funding are usually analyzed in isolation. This paper combines the corresponding strands of the literature and thereby advances our understanding of the important interaction between them. We investigate the impact of three modes of health care financing, namely,...

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