on coach dismissals in the German football league where the selection of players is indeed a key task of the coach …

musicians and discourages talented agents from becoming full-time musicians in all second-best economies. In Italy both …It is estimated that only 5% of musicians in Italy are regularly employed. In an attempt at understanding such a … ; Italy …

by relaxing it for temporary jobs. These countries are Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands …

whether there is convergence in monetary transmission. The countries included are: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the …This paper examines how the pass-through of monetary policy measures in 6 EMU countries has evolved over time and … Netherlands and Spain, and the sample period is 1980-2000. We conclude that major differences in pass-through exist in our sample …

, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one …-March until mid-May. Using Italy as a case study, we find that high-social-capital areas exhibit lower excess mortality and a …

In a series of experiments conducted in Belgium (Wallonia and Flanders), France and the Netherlands, we compare … examples of high compliance exert no influence; (iv) tax evasion is more frequent in France and the Netherlands; Walloons evade …

World Cup finals were the first mega-event hosted by reunified Germany. We use this landmark event in German contemporary … history to investigate how the integration of the two parts of Germany progressed after 18 years of reunification. We still …