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Total instructional time exposure and student achievement : an extreme bounds analysis based on German state-level variation

Mandel, Philipp; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2011

Using pooled data on instructional time and student performance by subject, our study finds evidence for the school … learning being a cumulative process by relying on rather poor proxies for instructional time. Highschool ninth graders from the …-instructional time measured in cumulated form from first up to ninth grade. Besides total instructional time exposure, we identify eight …

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Inter vivos transfers of ownership in family firms

Hines, James R.; Potrafke, Niklas; Riem, Marina; … - 2016

This paper examines the determinants of inter vivos (lifetime) transfers of ownership in German family firms between 2000 and 2013. Survey evidence indicates that owners of larger firms, and firms with strong current business conditions, transfer ownership at higher rates than others. When a...

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From "I Don't Like Mondays" to "Friday I'm in Love" : day-of-the-week effects in business surveys

Hennrich, Jonas; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2023

This study identifies day-of-the-week effects in business surveys using monthly data from the ifo Institute. The odds are higher that companies are more likely to exhibit more pessimistic business expectations for the upcoming months on Mondays and more optimistic expectations at the end of the...

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Lifetime consequences of lost instructional time in the classroom : evidence from shortened school years

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2022

This study estimates the lifetime effects of lost instructional time in the classroom on labor market performance. For … identification, I use historical shifts in the school year schedule in Germany, which substantially shortened the duration of the …

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The impact of managerial change on performance : the role of team heterogeneity

Hentschel, Sandra; Mühlheußer, Gerd; Sliwka, Dirk - 2012

this incentive mechanism is reinvigorated after a management change - but only when the team is sufficiently homogenous …. Indeed, we find substantial evidence that coach replacements enhance team performance (only) in homogenous teams. Moreover …

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Universal high-speed broadband provision : an alternative policy approach

Wolfstetter, Elmar - 2021

Millions of citizens and firms lack access to high speed internet, even though governments pledged to spend huge sums of money to subsidize internet networks. In this paper we review some systematic flaws of present subsidy policies and outline a promising alternative. We propose that...

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Second-hand gentrification : theory and evidence from high-speed rail extensions

Loumeau, Gabriel; Russo, Antonio - 2022

This paper investigates whether and how gentrification spreads along intercity transport connections. We consider a model with heterogeneous individuals populating a primary and a secondary city, with commuting within and between cities. By reducing the cost of intercity commuting, the HSR...

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The political economy of regulatory risk

Strausz, Roland - 2010

This paper investigates political uncertainty as a source of regulatory risk. It shows that political parties have incentives to reduce regulatory risk actively: Mutually beneficial pre-electoral agreements that reduce regulatory risk always exist. Agreements that fully eliminate it exist when...

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IMF surveillance and financial markets : a political economy analysis

Fratzscher, Marcel; Reynaud, Julien - 2010

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is in the process of re-inventing itself with bilateral and multilateral surveillance emerging as a key function. The paper analyses how IMF surveillance announcements may be influenced by political power that member countries exert at the IMF. First, we...

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Railways and the productivity gap in Italy : persistence and divergence after unification

Pontarollo, Nicola; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2015

same time, the Kingdom of Italy started a large infrastructure project to spread railways, which were largely confined in …

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