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Relative prices and climate policy : how the scarcity of non-market goods drives policy evaluation
Drupp, Moritz A.; Hänsel, Martin C. - 2020
Climate change not only impacts production and market consumption, but also the relative scarcity of non-market goods, such as environmental amenities. We study fundamental drivers of the resulting relative price changes, their potential magnitude, and their implications for climate policy in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154637
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Estimating general equilibrium spillovers of large-scale shocks
Huber, Kilian - 2021
functional forms can overcome different sources of bias. The analysis is particularly relevant to the estimation of spillovers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012489641
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The contribution of pharmaceutical innovation to longevity growth in Germany and France
Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2010
I investigate the contribution of pharmaceutical innovation to recent longevity growth in Germany and France. First, I …-adjusted mortality rates of residents of Germany, using longitudinal, annual, state-level data during the period 2000-2007. The estimates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003977959
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Heavyweights - the impact of large businesses on productivity growth
Falck, Oliver (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003623797
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"Take it or go to court" : the impact of sec. 1a of the German protection against dismissal act on severance payments
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2010
on panel data for West Germany indicate that the legal change did have a negative effect on severance pay. -- panel data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003984405
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Sensitivity of matching-based program evaluations to the availability of control variables
Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - 2011
the question whether the omission of important control variables in matching estimation leads to biased impact estimates … a very detailed and flexible way. Information on job search behaviour, timing of unemployment and program start, as well … as detailed regional characteristics are also relevant. -- training ; job search assistance ; matching estimation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011187
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The transmission of German monetary policy in the pre-Euro period
Lütkepohl, Helmut; Wolters, Jürgen - 2001
A small macroeconomic model is constructed to study the transmission of the monetary policy conducted by the Deutsche Bundesbank (DBB) since the middle of the 1970s. For this purpose quarterly, seasonally unadjusted data for the period from 1975 to 1998 are used, that is, the period until the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400913
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Early child care and child development : for whom it works and why
Felfe, Christina; Lalive, Rafael - 2012 - First version: October 2009, This version: December 2012
Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to benefit from such expansions? We address this question by adopting a marginal treatment effects framework. We study the West German setting where high quality center-based care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009688522
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Mitigating liquidity constraints : public export credit guarantees in Germany
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Heiland, Inga; Yalçin, Erdal - 2012
guarantees in Germany. Covering the default risk of exporters' foreign customers, the policy is supposed to enable funding of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580766
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Covid-induced school closures in the US and Germany : long-term distributional effects
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2022
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177101