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Trade and tasks : an exploration over three decades in Germany
Becker, Sascha O.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2014
This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data for merchandize and services. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464704
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Sustainability of German fiscal policy and public debt : historical and time series evidence for the period 1850-2010
Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2013
debt crisis has prompted a fundamental re-evaluation of public debt sustainability and the looming threat of sovereign debt … fiscal sustainability for the period from 1950 to 2010. This evidence leads to the conclusion that Germany's public debt is … default. Due to a multitude of large scale events in its past, Germany is far from being an exception: In fact, Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009709423
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Panel cointegration tests on the fiscal sustainability of German Laender
Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2014
newly compiled database covering the years 1950 - 2011. Unlike previous studies on Germany, we analyze fiscal sustainability …This paper provides new evidence on the sustainability of public finances in German states (Laender) by exploiting a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010388585
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Fiscal sustainability of the German Laender : time series evidence
Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2014
In this paper we analyze the sustainability of public finances in the states (Laender) of the Federal Republic of … Germany using an unprecedentedly comprehensive fiscal dataset for the time period from 1950 to 2011 for West German Laender … and 1991 to 2011 for East German Laender, respectively. In order to assess the fiscal sustainability of the (Laender) we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010388609
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Modeling fiscal sustainability in dynamic macro-panels with heterogeneous effects : evidence from German federal states
Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; Wolfinger, Julia - 2018
In this paper, we extend Henning Bohn's (2008) fiscal sustainability test by allowing for slope heterogeneity and cross … sustainability criteria. According to our results, politicians have significantly reacted to increasing debt levels by increasing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011822075
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Sectoral trends and cycles in Germany
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Westermann, Frank - 2001
We examine the comovements between the output indexes of three German sectors (manufacturing, mining, and agriculture …
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Inequality, well-being and institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean
Oberoi, Jaideep; Ahsan, Syed - 2003
This paper focuses on the role of institutions in the fight against poverty and inequality. Our view of institutions encompasses formal rules designed by polity (including those in the legal and economics sphere such as rules of property rights, contracts and liabilities) as well as informal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514135
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Happiness, economy and institutions
Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2000
A cross-regional econometric analysis suggests that institutional factors in the form of direct democracy (via initiatives and referenda) and of federal structure (local autonomy) systematically and sizeably raise s elf-reported individual well-being. This positive effect can be attributed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781520
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Determinants of human development : capturing the role of institutions
Binder, Michael; Georgiadis, Georgios - 2011
In this paper, we study development in a panel of 87 countries from 1970 to 2005. We focus on characterizing institutionally driven heterogeneities in the development effects of macroeconomic policies and on comparing the development process as measured by GDP to that measured by the Human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011991
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Determinants of global value chain participation : cross-country evidence
Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Kee, Hiau Looi; Winkler, Deborah - 2020
The past decades witnessed big changes in international trade with the rise of global value chains. Some countries, such as China, Poland, and Vietnam rode the tide, while other countries, many in the Africa region, faltered. This paper studies the determinants of participation in global value...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213059