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External costs of road, rail and air-transport - a bottom-up approach
Weinreich, Sigurd; Rennings, Klaus; Schlomann, Barbara; … - 1998
passenger road traffic, total external costs amount to about 44 ECU/1000 pkm on the route Frankfurt -Milan, including the impact … of the transport modes, external costs of passenger road traffic are about 9 times as high as those of rail traffic and … about twice as high as those of air traffic. For goods transport by road, the total external costs (30.6 ECU/1000 tkm) are …
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The Forward Premium Puzzle and Latent Factors Day by Day
Bernoth, Kerstin - 2010
We use futures instead of forward rates to study the complete maturity spectrum of the forward premium puzzle from two days to six months. At short maturities the slope coefficient is positive, but these turn negative as the maturity increases to the monthly level. Futures data allow us to...
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Apprenticeship training in Canada : a theoretical and empirical analysis
Weiermair, Klaus - 1984
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Quasi-Monte Carlo methods in stochastic simulations : an application to fiscal policy simulations using an aggregate disequilibrium model of the West German economy 1960 - 1994
Franz, Wolfgang (contributor) - 1998
Different stochastic simulation methods are used in order to check the robustness of the outcome of policy simulations with a macroeconometric model. A macroeconometric disequilibriummodel of the West German economy is used to analyze a reform proposal for the tax system. The model was estimated...
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The early career gender wage gap
Napari, Sami (contributor) - 2006
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German male income volatility 1984 to 2008
Bartels, Charlotte; Bönke, Timm - 2010
. We find evidence that the overall inequality of earnings in Germany has been rising throughout the period due to both …
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Strategic or status quo-preserving business exit : (how) do CEO turnover and succession matter?
Decker, Carolin; Bresser, Rudi K. F.; Mellewigt, Thomas - 2010
Business exit has implications for a firm's corporate strategy. Two types of exit events are distinguished: those that involve strategic change and those that are status quo-preserving. This study investigates the impact of CEO turnover and succession on strategic versus status quo-preserving...
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Entry regulation and entrepreneurship : empirical evidence from a German natural experiment
Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2010
The amendment to the German Trade and Crafts Code in 2004 offers a natural experiment to asses the causal effects of this reform on the probabilities of being self-employed and transition into and out of self-employment, using cross-sections (2002-2006) of German microcensus data. This study...
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Transaction cost theory refined : theoretical and empirical evidence from a business-to-business marketing perspective
Ungruhe, Markus; Kreis, Henning; Kleinaltenkamp, Michael - 2010
Recently, integrating Transaction Cost Economic (TCE) and Resource Based View (RBV) arguments has become one of the most prominent theoretical approaches in research on business relationships. We question this dominance and strengthen an exclusive TCE perspective by recalling two of the core TCE...
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Beschäftigungswirkungen von Lohnsubventionen und Mindestlöhnen : zur Reform des Niedriglohnsektors in Deutschland
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2011
In diesem Beitrag werden die Beschäftigungswirkungen von Lohnsubventionen und eines Mindestlohnes für Deutschland …In this contribution employment effects of wage subsidies and a minimum wage are analyzed for Germany. Existing studies … general minimum wage for Germany. The magnitude of the negative employment effects depends on the minimum wage level …
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