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Netzzugang, Wettbewerb und Investitionen

Inderst, Roman; Peitz, Martin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

Wir untersuchen die Rolle von Vertragstypen und Zugangsregulierung auf Innovation und Wettbewerb. In einem Duopolmodell …

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Loan availability and investment: Can innovative companies better cope with loan denials?

Mueller, Elisabeth; Reize, Frank - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

This study examines the consequences of loan denials for the investment performance of small and medium-sized German … investment than non-innovative companies. The non-randomness of loan denials is controlled for with a selection equation …

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Exposure to television and individual beliefs: Evidence from a natural experiment

Hennighausen, Tanja - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

Does the information provided by mass media have the power to persistently affect individual beliefs about the drivers of success in life? To answer this question empirically, this contribution exploits a natural experiment on the reception of West German television in the former German...

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The Erosion of Union Membership in Germany: Determinants, Densities, Decompositions

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten; Wang, Qingwei - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

Union density in Germany has declined remarkably during the last two decades. We estimate socio-economic and workplace-related determinants of union membership in East and West Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel by means of Chamberlain-Mundlack correlated random effects...

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Long-run effects of training programs for the unemployed in East Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Völter, Robert - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

Public sector sponsored training was implemented at a large scale during the transition process in East Germany. Based on new administrative data, we estimate the differential effects of three different programs for East Germany during the transition process. We apply a dynamic multiple...

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Employment Effects of Publicly Financed Training Programs The East German Experience

Kraus, Florian; Puhani, Patrick A.; Steiner, Viktor - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1997

We analyze the effectiveness of publicly financed training and retraining programs in east Germany as measured by their effects on individual re-employment probabilities after training. These are estimated by discrete hazard rate models on the basis of individual-level panel data. We account for...

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Rising Wage Dispersion, After All ! The German Wage Structure at the Turn of the Century

Kohn, Karsten - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

Using register data from the IAB employment sample, this paper studies the wage structure in the German labor market throughout the years 1992{2001. Wage dispersion has generally been rising. The increase was more pronounced in East Germany and occurred predominantly in the lower part of the...

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Do public works programs work? Some unpleasant results from the East German experience

Kraus, Florian; Puhani, Patrick A.; Steiner, Viktor - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1998

We analyze the effectiveness of public works programs (PWP, Arbeitsbeschaffungsmaßnahmen) in east Germany as measured by their effects on individual future reemployment probabilities in regular jobs. These are estimated by discrete hazard rate models on the basis of individual?level panel data....

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A gains from trade perspective on macroeconomic fluctuations

Beaudry, Paul; Portier, Franck - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

Business cycles reflect changes over time in the amount of trade between individuals. In this paper we show that incorporating explicitly intra-temporal gains from trade between individuals into a macroeconomic model can provide new insight into the potential mechanisms driving economic...

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Are there financing constraints for R&D and investment in German manufacturing firms?

Harhoff, Dietmar - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1996

Using a newly constructed panel dataset of German enterprises, I estimate R&D and capital investment equations for the … time period from 1990 to 1994. Simple accelerator specifications indicate considerable sensitivity of R&D and investment to … account, but a significant positive relationship between cash flow and investment remains for relatively small firms. In the …

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