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Reducing Binge Drinking? The Effect of a Ban on Late-Night Off-premise Alcohol Sales on Alcohol-Related Hospital Stays in Germany

Marcus, Jan; Siedler, Thomas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015

among adolescents and young adults by about seven percent. There is also evidence of a decrease in the number of …

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One Last Puff?: Public Smoking Bans and Smoking Behavior

Anger, Silke; Kvasnicka, Michael; Siedler, Thomas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in the timing of state bans to identify the effect that...

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Obesity and Developmental Functioning Among Children Aged 2-4 Years

Cawley, John; Spieß, C. Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

daily living, motor skills, and social skills) as a function of various measures of weight (including BMI and obesity status …In developed countries, obesity tends to be associated with worse labor market outcomes. One possible reason is that … obesity leads to less human capital formation early in life. This paper investigates the association between obesity and the …

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Building the Minimum Wage: Germany's First Sectoral Minimum Wage and Its Impact on Wages in the Construction Industry

Rattenhuber, Pia - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

The very first minimum wage in Germany was introduced in 1997 for blue-collar workers in sub-sectors of the construction industry. In the setting of a natural experiment blue-collar workers in neighboring 4-digit-industries and white-collar workers are used as control groups for...

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Are Geese Flying by Themselves inside China? An LSTR-SEM Approach to Income Convergence of Chinese Counties

Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Girardin, Eric - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

In this paper, we examine beta-convergence of real per-capita income of Chinese counties. We account for both the spatial dependences between counties and the possibility of different convergence regimes. The first feature is captured by the spatial error term, whereas the second one is modeled...

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Can Internet Ads Serve as an Indicator of Homeownership Rates?

Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Mense, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

In this paper, we propose an indicator of the homeownership rate based on Internet ads offering the housing for rent and sale. We constructed the HOR estimate using the number of ads in four different markets (flats for rent, flats for sale, houses for rent, and houses for sale). Our HOR...

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Price Discovery and Trade Fragmentation in a Multi-Market Environment: Evidence from the MTS System

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Girardi, Alessandro - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

This paper proposes new metrics for the process of price discovery on the main electronic trading platform for euro-denominated government securities. Analysing price data on daily transactions for 107 bonds over a period of twenty-seven months, we find a greater degree of price leadership of...

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Fiscal Federalism and Tax Administration: Evidence from Germany

Bönke, Timm; Jochimsen, Beate; Schröder, Carsten - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

In many federations, fiscal equalization schemes soften fiscal imbalances across the member states. Such schemes usually imply that the member states internalize only a small fraction of the additional tax revenue from an expansion of the state-specific tax bases, while the remainder of the...

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Business Confidence and Forecasting of Housing Prices and Rents in Large German Cities

Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Siliverstovs, Boriss - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

In this paper, we evaluate the forecasting ability of 115 indicators to predict the housing prices and rents in 71 German cities. Above all, we are interested in whether the local business confidence indicators can allow substantially improving the forecasts, given the local nature of the...

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Financing LNG Projects and the Role of Long-Term Sales-and-Purchase Agreements

Rüster, Sophia - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015

The financing of infrastructures is a major topic in recent energy policy debates. Project finance, as a specialized form of debt finance, thereby has become a well-established financing tool. This paper contributes a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the determinants of the debt ratio in...

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