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Dialects, cultural Identity, and economic exchange
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2010
We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...
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Long memory in German energy price indices
Barros, Carlos Pestana; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - 2012
This study examines the long-memory properties of German energy price indices (specifically, import and export prices, as well as producer and consumer prices) for hard coal, lignite, mineral oil and natural gas adopting a fractional integration modelling framework. The analysis is undertaken...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288234
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Taxes and the financial structure of German inward FDI
Ramb, Fred; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2004
tax rate of the German affiliate. From our study of a panel of more than 8,000 non-financial affiliates in Germany, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261101
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Evaluating the German inventory cycle : using data from the Ifo business survey
Knetsch, Thomas A. - 2004
Inventory fluctuations are an important phenomenon in business cycles. However, the preliminary data on inventory investment as published in the German national accounts are tremendously prone to revision and therefore ill-equipped to diagnose the current stance of the inventory cycle. The Ifo...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261202
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Drifting together or falling apart? : The empirics of regional economic growth in post-unification Germany
Colavecchio, Roberta; Curran, Declan; Funke, Michael - 2005
The objective of this paper is to address the question of convergence across German districts in the first decade after German unification by drawing out and emphasising some stylised facts of regional per capita income dynamics. We achieve this by employing non-parametric techniques which focus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261325
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Projecting the Spread of COVID19 for Germany
Donsimoni, Jean Roch - 2020
We model the evolution of the number of individuals that are reported to be sick with COVID-19 in Germany. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837989
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Tracking and Predicting the German Economy : Ifo vs. Pmi
Lehmann, Robert - 2020
This analysis investigates the predictive power of the most important leading indicators for the German economy, which are provided by the ifo Institute and IHS Markit. We conduct an out-of-sample, real-time forecast experiment for growth of gross domestic product and growth of gross value added...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839771
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How New Airport Infrastructure Promotes Tourism : Evidence from a Synthetic Control Approach in German Regions
Doerr, Luisa - 2020
We examine how new airport infrastructure influences regional tourism. Identification is based on the conversion of a military air base into a regional commercial airport in the German state of Bavaria. The new airport opened in 2007 and promotes travelling to the touristic region Allgäu in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844207
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To React or Not? Fiscal Policy, Volatility and Welfare in the EU-3
Malley, Jim - 2008
implications of countercyclical fiscal policy for France, Germany and the UK. The model incorporates real wage rigidity which is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773638
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Top Incomes and Top Taxes in Germany
Corneo, Giacomo - 2006
We analyze the distribution and taxation of top incomes in Germany during the 1990s on the basis of individual tax … findings are as follows: (i) incomes are highly concentrated in Germany, more than commonly thought; (ii) the German economic … concentrated in Germany, more than commonly thought; (iv) although effective tax rates are significantly lower than statutory ones …
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