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illustrate our approach by comparing Germany and the US based on harmonized micro data. We find significant, sizeable and robust …
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to the fit. Using data for the United States, the euro area and Germany, we assess the performance of boosting when …
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Previous assessments of nominal exchange rate determination have focused upon a narrow set of models typically of the 1970 s vintage, including monetary and portfolio balance models. In this paper we re-assess the in-sample fit and out-of-sample prediction of a wider set of models that have been...
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economic growth. The model is estimated using quarterly data for Germany, the UK and the US from 1960 to 1999. Our econometric …
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the travel activities of the heads of state of France, Germany and the United States between 1948 and 2003. My results …
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dropped on average by -55% in the US and -45% in Germany from the onset of the crisis to the summer of 2021. In the US …, schools were closed longer in richer than in poorer areas, while in Germany the regional variation is much smaller. However …, Germany exhibited substantial variation by grade level, with a strong U-shaped patterns that implies that children attending …
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Survey data from the United States, West Germany and East Germany are analyzed to compare individual attitudes towards … political redistribution in each country. In West Germany the homo oeconomicus effect , the social rivalry effect and the public … effect disappears. In East Germany both the second and the third effect disappear. …
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and Germany to condition the relationship between real wages and business fluctuations on the phase of the cycle, it is … demonstrated that the inconclusive evidence is not only caused by measurement problems, estimation method and composition bias as … general, the evidence for countercyclical wages is stronger in Germany than for the US, but taken together there is no clear …
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Hierarchical firms are enterprises with rigid internal job ladders. We examine the state enterprise as the prototypical hierarchical firm. In the state enterprise, promotion of employees through the internal hierarchy is determined by the workers’ allocation of time between rent seeking and...
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Governments do not have perfect information regarding the priorities and the needs of different groups in the economy. This lack of knowledge opens the door for different groups to lobby the government in order to receive the government’s support. We set up a model of hierarchical contests and...
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