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Welfare Effects of the Euro Cash Changeover
Wunder, Christoph; Schwarze, Johannes; Krug, Gerhard; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
Using merged data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper applies a parametric difference-in-differences approach to assess the real effects of the introduction of the Euro on subjective well-being. A complementary nonparametric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963628
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Individual Well-Being in a Dynamic Perspective
D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Frick, Joachim R. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
This paper explores the determinants of individual well-being as measured by self-reported levels of satisfaction with income. Making full use of the panel data nature of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we provide empirical evidence for well-being depending on absolute and on relative levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963914
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The Anatomy of Subjective Well-Being
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Frijters, P.; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001
Subjective Well-Being has increasingly been studied by several economists. This paper fits in that literature but takes into account that there are different aspects of life such as health, financial situation, and job. We call them domains. In this paper, we consider Subjective Well-Being as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963939
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A Note on the High Stability of Happiness: The Minimal Effects of a Nuclear Catastrophe on Life Satisfaction
Berger, Eva M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
as the stability of their outcome measure is approved. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068775
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Well-Being over the Life Span: Semiparametric Evidence from British and German Longitudinal Data
Wunder, Christoph; Wiencierz, Andrea; Schwarze, Johannes; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
This paper applies semiparametric regression models using penalized splines to investigate the profile of well-being over the life span. Splines have the advantage that they do not require a priori assumptions about the form of the curve. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068814
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Maternal Employment and Happiness: The Effect of Non-Participation and Part-Time Employment on Mothers' Life Satisfaction
Berger, Eva M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
In contrast to unemployment, the effect of non-participation and parttime employment on subjective well-being has much less frequently been the subject of economists' investigations. In Germany, many women with dependent children are involuntarily out of the labor force or in part-time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069045
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Subjective Well-Being and Relative Deprivation: An Empirical Link
D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Frick, Joachim R. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
This paper explores the relationship between two well-established con-cepts of measuring individual well-being: the concept of happiness, i.e. self-reported level of satisfaction with income and life, and relative deprivation/satisfaction, i.e. the gaps between the individual's income and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069080
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Granularity in Banking and Growth: Does Financial Openness Matter?
Bremus, Franziska; Buch, Claudia M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
We explore the impact of large banks and of financial openness for aggregate growth. Large banks matter because of …-level do not cancel out in the aggregate but can affect macroeconomic outcomes. Financial openness may affect GDP growth in and …. Second, financial openness lowers GDP growth. Third, granular effects tend to be stronger in financially closed economies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896187
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Monetary Commitment and Structural Reforms: A Dynamic Panel Analysis for Transition Economies
Belke, Ansgar; Vogel, Lukas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
This paper examines the contemporaneous relationship between the exchange rate regime and structural economic reforms for a sample of CEEC/CIS transition countries. We investigate empirically whether structural reforms are complements or substitutes for monetary commitment in the attempt to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010556651
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The Euro Area Crisis Management Framework: Consequences and Institutional Follow-Ups
Belke, Ansgar - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
support the stability of the euro. Among them are the enhancement of the effectiveness of the Stability and Growth Pact … Stability Facility (EFSF) and the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism (EFSM). Both are temporary in nature (3 years). In …
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