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International Implications of German Unification
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 1996
This paper advances the hypothesis that the EUS crisis was caused by German unification. The unification has implied a massive resource demand which parallels the US resource demand following Reagan's tax reforms in the eighties. The resource demand revised the German interest rates relative to...
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Macroeconomic Aspects of German Unification
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 1991
The paper comments on the economic effects of the German unification. Apart from discussing the unification in an international perspective, analyzing the distributional consequences, and pointing to structural adjustment problems, it emphasizes the distinction between the frequently cited money...
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The Economics of Density : Evidence from the Berlin Wall
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M. - 2014
This paper develops a quantitative model of internal city structure that features agglomeration and dispersion forces and an arbitrary number of heterogeneous city blocks. The model remains tractable and amenable to empirical analysis because of stochastic shocks to commuting decisions, which...
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Learning Capitalism the Hard Way--Evidence from German Reunification
Triebs, Thomas P. - 2013
We develop a model of firm learning in volatile markets with noisy signals and test its predictions using historical data from the Ifo Institute's Business Climate Survey. We find that firms' forecasts improve as they age. We also exploit German Reunification as a natural experiment where firms...
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Consolidating the Evidence on Income Mobility in the Western States of Germany and the U.S. from 1984-2006
Bayaz-Ozturk, Gulgun - 2012
economic mobility. Using standard measures of mobility (with panel data for the western states of Germany and the U.S.) over … the entire period 1984-2006, we find the conventional result that income mobility is greater in Germany. But when we cut … significantly over the years immediately following reunification in Germany but not in the U.S …
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The Economic Impact of Social Ties : Evidence from German Reunification
Burchardi, Konrad B. - 2011
to East Germany in 1989 experience a persistent rise in their personal incomes after the fall of the Berlin Wall … within a given West German region invest in East Germany. As a result, West German regions which (for idiosyncratic reasons … capita in the early 1990s. A one standard deviation rise in the share of households with social ties to East Germany in 1989 …
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Labor Laws and Innovation
Acharya, Viral V. - 2010
Stringent labor laws can provide firms a commitment device to not punish short-run failures and thereby spur their employees to pursue value-enhancing innovative activities. Using patents and citations as proxies for innovation, we identify this effect by exploiting the time-series variation...
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Firing Costs, Employment Fluctuations and Average Employment : An Examination of Germany
Hunt, Jennifer - 1994
West Germany's Employment Promotion Act of 1985 facilitated the use of fixed term contracts and increased the number of …
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An Analysis of the Selection of Arbitrators
Bloom, David E. - 1986
This paper analyses data on union and employer rankings of different panels of arbitrators in an actual arbitration system. A random utility model of bargainer preferences is developed and estimated. The estimates indicate that unions and employers have similar preferences, in favor of lawyers,...
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The General Basis of Arbitrator Behavior : An Empirical Analysis of Conventional and Final-Offer Arbitration
Farber, Henry S. - 1984
A general model of arbitrator behavior in conventional and final-offer arbitration is developed that is based on an underlying notion of an appropriate award in a particular case. This appropriate award is defined as a function of the facts of the case independently of the offers of the parties....
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