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Marin, Dalia - 2019

German multinational firms and 2200 of their affiliate firms in Eastern Europe. We find that three factors stand out in …

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Chinese Aid and Health at the Country and Local Level

Cruzatti C., John - 2020

We investigate whether and to what extent Chinese development finance affects infant mortality, combining 92 demographic and health surveys (DHS) for a maximum of 53 countries and almost 55,000 sub-national locations over the 2002-2014 period. We address causality by instrumenting aid with a set...

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The Risks of Nation-Building Through Military Aid and Intervention

Dimant, Eugen; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2022

This chapter discusses the role of military interventionism and aid in nation-building. We argue that (1) intervention strategies of foreign actors like the United States often unfavorably interact with local institutional settings, which (2) produces undesired outcomes not only for the target...

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Does Household Borrowing Reduce the Trade Balance? Evidence from Developing and Developed Countries

Xu, Can; Jacobs, Jan; de Haan, Jakob - 2021

We examine the dynamic impact of household borrowing on the trade balance using data from 33 developing countries and 36 developed countries over the 1980-2017 period. Our findings suggest that the impact of household borrowing on the trade balance is by and large negative, both in the short and...

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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 … survey providers produce valuable leading indicators to predict the current quarter of German GDP growth. Regarding forecasts …

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Fiscal Equalization as a Driver of Tax Increases : Empirical Evidence from Germany

Büttner, Thiess - 2018

This paper exploits a recent devolution of tax setting powers in the German federation to study the effects of fiscal …

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Justice Delayed is Assimilation Denied : Rightwing Terror, Fear and Social Assimilation of Turkish Immigrants in Germany

Deole, Sumit S. - 2018

Turkish individuals and in other crimes targeting Islamic immigrants in Germany. Using German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) data …In 2011, German police accidentally stumbled upon a previously unknown right-wing extremist group called the National … maltreatment by German institutions while investigating the NSU crimes. The results further show that the revelations significantly …

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Sales and Markup Dispersion : Theory and Empirics

Mrazova, Monika - 2019

We derive exact conditions relating the distributions of firm productivity, sales, output, and markups to the form of demand in monopolistic competition. Applications include a new “CREMR” demand function (Constant Revenue Elasticity of Marginal Revenue): it is necessary and sufficient for...

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Harmonization and Interpretation of the Ifo Business Survey's Micro Data

Link, Sebastian - 2019

Every month, the ifo Business Survey (IBS) asks a representative set of 9000 German firms about their current and …

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Dissecting Between-Plant and Within-Plant Wage Dispersion - Evidence from Germany

Baumgarten, Daniel - 2019

the sources of the recent slowdown in German wage inequality and compare the results for West Germany to the ones for East …Using rich linked employer-employee data for (West) Germany between 1996 and 2014, we analyze the most important … drivers of the recent rise in German wage dispersion and pin down the relative contribution of plant and worker …

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