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Nitsch, Volker - 2009

Airport noise is costly. Airport location is typically associated with lower property prices. Airport expansion often sparks protests by local residents. In this paper, I provide new evidence on the costs of airport-related noise (and other disamenities of airports) for individuals. In contrast...

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When Labor Disputes Bring Cities to a Standstill: The Impact of Public Transit Strikes on Traffic, Accidents, Air Pollution, and Health

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut - 2015

effects of public transit strikes on urban populations in Germany. Due to higher traffic volumes and longer travel times …

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Rush hours and urbanization

Seidel, Tobias; Wickerath, Jan - 2019

labor productivity and the housing market. Abolishing traffic congestion during rush hours leads to a more urbanized economy …

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Speed Limit Enforcement and Road Safety

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Rekers, Ramona - 2019

police reported accidents in a generalized difference-in-differences approach, we find that SLMO reduce traffic accidents and …

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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 …

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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...

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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...

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Efficient revenue sharing and upper level governments : theory and application to Germany

Büttner, Thiess; Hauptmeier, Sebastian; Schwager, Robert - 2006

in Germany. The results suggest that attempts of state level governments to extract fiscal resources from the local …

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Was Germany ever united?: evidence from intra- and international trade 1885 - 1933

Wolf, Nikolaus - 2008

When did Germany become economically integrated? Within the framework of a gravity model, based on a new data set of … about 40,000 observations on trade flows within and across the borders of Germany over the period 1885-1933, I explore the … internal fragmentation resulted from cultural heterogeneity, from administrative borders within Germany, and from geographical …

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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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