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Social capital and the spread of Covid-19 : insights from European countries
Bartscher, Alina Kristin; Seitz, Sebastian; Slotwinski, … - 2020
Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Swe­den, Switzerland and the UK. We exploit within-country variation in social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221209
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A nation-wide laboratory : examining trust and trustworthiness by integrating behavioral experiments into representative surveys
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; Rosenbladt, Bernhard von; … - 2002
Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a method integrating interactive experiments and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437195
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Local business taxation and competition for capital : the choice of the tax rate
Büttner, Thiess - 1998
This paper discusses how local tax rates of the business tax are set when communities compete for capital as a mobile factor. In a theoretical model communities provide public inputs financed by a tax on capital income in order to maximize a general objective function, which includes residents'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621715
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Local business taxation and competition for capital: the choice of the tax rate
Büttner, Thiess - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428182
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What makes people happy? : an empirical investigation of panel data
Kim, Rae Yule - In: Applied economics letters 28 (2021) 2, pp. 91-94
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012415084
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Is being 'soft on crime' the solution to rising crime rates? : evidence from Germany
Entorf, Horst (contributor); Spengler, Hannes (contributor) - 2008
diversion failed as increasing shares of dismissals by prosecutors and judges enhance crime rates in Germany. Crime is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779665
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Socio-economic and demographic factors of crime in Germany : evidence from panel data of the German states
Entorf, Horst; Spengler, Hannes - 1998
currently discussed factors of crime like demographic changes, youth-unemployment and income inequality. We use a panel of the … deterrence hypothesis for crime against property. Only weak support can be observed for crime against the person. Economic and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428150
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The economics of crime: Investigating the drugs-crime channel : empirical evidence from Panel Data of the German States
Entorf, Horst - 2001
The rising trends both in drug addiction and crime rates are of major public concern in Germany. Surprisingly, the … economic theory of crime seems to ignore the drugs-crime nexus, whereas the criminological literature considers illicit drug … Becker-Ehrlich model of crime supply. We analyse three different channels from drug abuse to crime: system-related, economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428420
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Der Einfluss von Persönlichkeitseigenschaften und sozialen Ressourcen auf die Arbeitslosigkeitsdauer
Uhlendorff, Arne - 2003
Untersucht wird der Einfluss des Humankapitals, der Arbeitsmarktlage, der familiären Situation sowie der Persönlichkeitseigenschaften und sozialen Ressourcen auf die individuelle Arbeitslosigkeitsdauer anhand des Sozioökonomischen Panels (SOEP) in West- und Ostdeutschland. Es wird eine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438269
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Exchange rate pass-through to consumer prices : a European perspective
Hüfner, Felix P.; Schröder, Michael - 2002
correction models for Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain. Using the weights of the Harmonized Index of Consumer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001657237