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Behavioral determinants of proclaimed support for environment protection policies
Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2016
Using a representative survey of German university students, we confirm that proclaimed support for environment protection policies depends on socio-cultural factors and political ideology. Unlike most related studies for other countries, we find that the environmental policy stance of German...
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Corruption, growth, and the environment : a cross-country analysis
Welsch, Heinz - 2003
The relationship between per capita income and a number of pollution indicators has been found to display an inverted U-shaped or downward-sloping pattern. Corruption may affect this relationship in two distinct ways: by raising pollution at given income levels (direct effect) and by reducing...
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Capital structure and regulation in US local telephony: an exploratory econometric study
Resende, Marcelo - 2009
The paper aims at empirically investigating the relationship between regulation and the capital structure of the regulated firm, A key aspect of the referred relationship pertains a leverage effect according to which debt could be increased as a response to previous physical capital investment...
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Persistence of politicians and firms' innovation
Bellettini, Giorgio; Berti Ceroni, Carlotta; Prarolo, … - 2011
We empirically investigate whether the persistence of politicians in political institutions affects the innovation activity of firms. We use 12,000 firm-level observations from three waves of the Italian Observatory over Small and Medium Enterprises, and introduce a measure of political...
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Should local public employment services be merged with the local social benefit administrations?
Holzner, Christian; Munz, Sonja - 2011
The German Federal government has allowed some regions (Approved Local Providers) to be solely responsible for the care of long-term unemployed. The remaining regions had to form Joint Local Agencies, where the local social benefit administrations work together with the local public employment...
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The impact of city contracting set-asides on black self-employment and employment
Chatterji, Aaron K.; Chay, Kenneth Y.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013
In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...
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Stock market cycles and supply side dynamics : two worlds, one vision?
De Grauwe, Paul; Gerba, Eddie - 2015
bounded rationality behavioural models. Both models are extended to include a financial friction on the supply side.The result … in both models is that production, supply of credit and the front payment to capital producers depend heavily on the …
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Demand or supply? : price adjustment during the Covid-19 pandemic
Balleer, Almut; Link, Sebastian; Menkhoff, Manuel; … - 2020 - This version: August 2020
We study planned price changes in German firm-level survey data to infer the relative importance of supply and demand … during the Covid-19 pandemic. Supply and demand forces coexist, but demand deficiencies dominate in the short run. Quarter …
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Structural interpretation of vector autoregressions with incomplete identification : revisiting the role of oil supply and demand shocks
Baumeister, Christiane; Hamilton, James D. - 2017 - Revised December 21, 2017
uncertainty about the identifying assumptions themselves. We use this approach to revisit the importance of shocks to oil supply … and demand. Supply disruptions turn out to be a bigger factor in historical oil price movements and inventory accumulation … a smaller factor than implied by earlier estimates. Supply shocks lead to a reduction in global economic activity after …
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Structural interpretation of vector autoregressions with incomplete information : revisiting the role of oil supply and demand shocks : comment
Kilian, Lutz; Zhou, Xiaoqing - 2018
mainly the imposition of a highly unrealistic prior for the global impact price elasticity of oil supply. Once identification … uncertainty about the global price elasticity of oil supply is accounted for by specifying a prior more in line with extraneous …
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