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Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2009

This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are heterogeneous variations in the characteristics of workers and jobs, and firms face adjustment costs in responding to these variations. Matches and separations are described...

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Estimating the shape of economic crises under heterogeneity

Dovern, Jonas; Jannsen, Nils - 2009

During the ongoing financial crisis the analysis of similar historical crises has gained more and more attention among economic researchers and forecasters. Existing studies, however, do not tackle the immense heterogeneity that is present in cross-country samples in a formal and consistent way....

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Funding, competition and the efficiency of NGOs: An empirical analysis of non-charitable expenditure of US NGOs engaged in foreign aid

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2010

We assess the determinants of the wide variation in the efficiency of foreign aid activities across US-based non-governmental organizations (NGOs). In particular, we analyze whether non-charitable expenditures - i.e., administration, management and fundraising - depend on the intensity of...

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Why it pays for aid recipients to take note of the Millennium Challenge Corporation: Other donors do!

Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2010

It is widely believed that the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has grossly fallen short of high expectations raised by the Bush administration in 2002. From the perspective of potential recipient countries, the crucial issue is whether the MCC increased the overall pool of aid resources...

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The End of the Wheeling and Dealing

Sinn, Hans-Werner - In: CESifo Forum 09 (2008) 4, pp. 3-5

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The Causes of the Financial Crisis

Hellwig, Martin - In: CESifo Forum 09 (2008) 4, pp. 12-21

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Containment and Resolution in the Financial Crisis: Too Little, Too Late

Honohan, Patrick - In: CESifo Forum 09 (2008) 4, pp. 22-27

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Regional effects of federal tax shocks

Hayo, Bernd; Uhl, Matthias - 2012

This paper studies regional output asymmetries following U.S. federal tax shocks. We estimate a vector autoregressive model for each U.S. state, utilizing the exogenous tax shock series recently proposed by Romer and Romer (2010) and find considerable variations: estimated output multipliers lie...

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Offsetting versus mitigation activities to reduce CO2 emissions: A theoretical and empirical analysis for the US and Germany

Lange, Andreas; Ziegler, Andreas - 2012

This paper studies the voluntary provision of public goods that is partially driven by a desire to offset for individual polluting activities. We first extend existing theory and show that offsets allow a reduction in effective environmental pollution levels while not necessarily extending the...

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Regionaler Treibhausgas-Emissionshandel in den USA: Eine umweltökonomische Analyse der Erfahrungen und der Neuerungen in Kalifornien und Neuengland

Rudolph, Sven - 2013

In den USA, weltweit zweitgrößte Wirtschaftsmacht und gleichzeitig zweitgrößter Emittent von Treibhausgasen, war die … der USA vollzog eine tiefgreifende Revision der Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). Vor diesem Hintergrund stellt … der vorliegende Beitrag unter Einbeziehung aktuellster Entwicklungen in den USA das Design regionaler Treibhausgas …

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