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Managerial Incentives, Innovation and Product Market Competition

Zhang, Zhentang - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

This paper investigates the strategic value of the managerial incentive scheme in affecting firms' incentive in R&D investment and their product market activities. Firstly, we find that in Cournot-quantity competition, owners strategically assign a non-profitmaximization objective to their...

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First Do No Harm. Then Do Not Cheat: DRG Upcoding in German Neonatology

Jürges, Hendrik; Köberlein, Juliane - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

Since 2003 German hospitals are reimbursed according to diagnosis related groups (DRGs). Patient classification in neonatology is based inter alia on birth weight, with substantial discontinuities in reimbursement at eight different thresholds. These discontinuities create strong incentives to...

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Expected Future Earnings, Taxation, and University Enrollment: A Microeconometric Model with Uncertainty

Fossen, Frank M.; Glocker, Daniela - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

-adjusted returns to an academic education increase the probability of university enrollment. Second, high-school graduates are …

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Do Tuition Fees Affect the Mobility of University Applicants?: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Dwenger, Nadja; Storck, Johanna; Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

Several German states recently introduced tuition fees for university education. We investigate whether these tuition …

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Enrolment into Higher Education and Changes in Repayment Obligations of Student Aid: Microeconometric Evidence for Germany

Baumgartner, Hans J.; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

education by exploiting the exogenous variation introduced through a discrete shift in the repayment regulations. Supported … enrolment rates. Our findings may have important implications for the current debate on the reform of financing higher education …

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Financial Student Aid and Enrollment into Higher Education: New Evidence from Germany

Steiner, Viktor; Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

We estimate the elasticity of enrollment into higher education with respect to the amount of means tested student aid …

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Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment in Germany: The Last Five Decades

Heineck, Guido; Riphahn, Regina T. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

Over the last decades the German education system underwent numerous reforms in order to improve "equality of … opportunity", i.e. to guarantee all pupils equal access to higher education. At the same time internationally comparative evidence … investigates the development in intergenerational education mobility in Germany for the birth cohorts 1929 through 1978 and tests …

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Does More Generous Student Aid Increase Enrolment Rates into Higher Education?: Evaluating the German Student Aid Reform of 2001

Baumgartner, Hans J.; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

received by eligible students to raise enrolment rates into tertiary education. We view this reform as a 'natural experiment … on enrolment rates into higher education. We find that the reform had a small positive but statistically insignificant …

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Entry Regulation and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Evidence from a German Natural Experiment

Rostam-Afschar, Davud - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

The amendment to the German Trade and Crafts Code in 2004 offers a natural experiment to asses the causal effects of this reform on the probabilities of being self-employed and transition into and out of self-employment, using cross-sections (2002-2006) of German microcensus data. This study...

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Moving up a Gear: The Impact of Compressing Instructional Time into Fewer Years of Schooling

Huebener, Mathias; Marcus, Jan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015

fundamental education reform in Germany tackles this trade-off by reducing high school by one year while leaving the total …

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