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Marriage Matters: Spousal Similarity in Life Satisfaction

Schimmack, Ulrich; Lucas, Richard - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

Examined the concurrent and cross-lagged spousal similarity in life satisfaction over a 21-year period. Analyses were based on married couples (N = 847) in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Concurrent spousal similarity was considerably higher than one-year retest similarity, revealing...

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Correlation Neglect in Financial Decision-Making

Eyster, Erik; Weizsäcker, Georg - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

Good decision-making often requires people to perceive and handle a myriad of statistical correlations. Notably, optimal portfolio theory depends upon a sophisticated understanding of the correlation among financial assets. In this paper, we examine people's understanding of correlation using a...

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Persistence and Determinants of Firm Profit in Emerging Markets

Stephan, Andreas; Tsapin, Andriy - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

The paper studies the persistence of profit and its determinants in emerging markets. We apply Markov chain analysis … empirical results show a moderate level of profit persistence, as well as a relatively low speed of adjustment to the steady …-state profit level, thus providing no support for the hypothesis that there is a lower persistence of profits in emerging markets …

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The Impact of Introducing an Interest Barrier: Evidence from the German Corporation Tax Reform 2008

Buslei, Hermann; Simmler, Martin - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

' capital structure, investment and profitability. The identification of the causal effects is based on the escape clauses in …

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Equity Markets, Financial Integration and Competitive Convergence

Chen, Gongyu; Higson, Chris; Holly, Sean; Petrella, Ivan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

the process of competitive convergence in profitability of listed companies in 7 countries of the European Union. We cast … observe convergence in profitability through time. The second question is whether there are national differences in the extent … whether there is evidence that convergence in profitability has become more rapid, by which we mean above average or below …

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Exports, International Investment, and Plant Performance: Evidence from a Non-Parametric Test

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

This paper compares the performance of purely domestic plants, domestic exporters and domestic multinationals. For our empirical analysis we utilise a non-parametric approach based on the principle of first order stochastic dominance. We find that the distributions for multinationals dominate...

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The Effects of Short-Term Liabilities on Profitability: The Case of Germany

Baum, Christopher F.; Schäfer, Dorothea; Talavera, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

-term liabilities. We develop a structural model of a firm's value maximization problem that predicts that profitability of the firm …

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Equity Markets, Financial Integration and Competitive Convergence

Chen, Gongyu; Higson, Chris; Holly, Sean; Petrella, Ivan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

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