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Race Meets Bargaining in Product Development
Karagözoğlu, Emin - 2020
.e., race) with an endogenous length (with one stage or two stages) between two workers. We model the payments to workers from …
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Does Crowd Support Drive the Home Advantage in Professional Soccer? Evidence from German Ghost Games During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Fischer, Kai - 2020
This paper examines the relation between crowd support and home advantage in professional football in making use of a … football divisions during the 2019/2020 season. We find that there is a reduced home advantage in the first division, whereas …
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Do employers discriminate less if vacancies are difficult to fill? Evidence from a field experiment
Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart; Gheyle, Niels; Vandamme, Cora - 2013
We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the occupation. To this end, we conduct a correspondence test in the youth labour market. In line with theoretical expectations, we find that, compared to natives, candidates with a...
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The Green Industrial Revolution – Investment Pathways to Decarbonize the Industrial Sector in Europe
Zimmer, Markus; Hoffmann, Patrick - 2023
The industrial sector is responsible for roughly one quarter of global greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. To align sector pathway developments with overarching net-zero transition goals in different industries, governments are required to understand sectoral reduction potentials to efficiently...
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Terrorism and Misperceptions : Evidence from Europe
Arin, K. Peren; Khalil, Umair; Mazrekaj, Deni; Thum, … - 2023
How does exposure to Islamist terrorism change perceptions of the share of Muslims and immigrants? We conduct a large-scale survey that measures misperceptions towards minority groups in four European countries. Our results show that terror attacks in the past increased misperceptions of the...
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Social Organizations and Political Institutions : Why China and Europe Diverged
Mokyr, Joel; Tabellini, Guido - 2023
Western Europe. An important factor, recognized in the literature, is that China centralized state institutions very early on …, while Europe remained politically fragmented for much longer. These initial differences, however, were amplified by the … different social organizations (clans in China, corporate structures in Europe) that spread in these two societies at the turn …
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Cycles and Long-Range Behaviour in the European Stock Market
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2019
This paper uses a modelling framework which includes two singularities (or poles) in the spectral density function, one corresponding to the long-run (zero) frequency and the other to the cyclical (non-zero) frequency. The adopted specification is very general, since it allows for fractional...
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Forecasting Exports Across Europe : What are the Superior Survey Indicators?
Lehmann, Robert - 2019
In this study, we systematically evaluate the potential of a bunch of survey-based indicators from different economic branches to forecasting export growth across a multitude of European countries. Our pseudo out-of-sample analyses reveal that the best-performing indicators beat a well-specified...
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Refugees' and Irregular Migrants' Self-Selection into Europe : Who Migrates Where?
Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2019
About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and …
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Efficiency of European Universities : A Comparison of Peers
Herberholz, Lars - 2020
The European higher education landscape has become increasingly integrated causing competition among universities that is no longer bound to national borders. In view of this development, the present paper investigates the relative efficiency of 450 European universities between 2011 and 2014....
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