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Do Regions with Entrepreneurial Neighbors Perform Better? A Spatial Econometric Approach for German Regions

Pijnenburg, Katharina - 2011

We use a neoclassical production function to analyze the effects of knowledge spillovers via entrepreneurship on economic performance of 337 German districts. To take the spatial dependence structure of the data into account, we estimate a spatial Durbin model. We highlight the importance of the...

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A Market Screening Model for Price Inconstancies : Empirical Evidence from German Electricity Markets

von Blanckenburg, Korbinian - 2013

In this paper, we develop a market screening model to detect inconstancies in price changes. Although there is a long history of industrial organization research of collusion, price setting behavior, and conduct - a robust model to detect structural changes in market structure was missing so...

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Bad Bank(s) and Recapitalization of the Banking Sector

Schaefer, Dorothea - 2009

With banking sectors worldwide still suffering from the effects of the financial crisis, public discussion of plans to place toxic assets in one or more bad banks has gained steam in recent weeks. The following paper presents a plan how governments can efficiently relieve ailing banks from toxic...

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Publications : German Economic Research Institutes on Track

Ketzler, Rolf - 2008

The request for a strengthening of academic research at the German economic research institutes by the German Science Council more than a decade ago was founded on the crucial insight that sound policy advice - the traditional task of the institutes - can only be guaranteed in the long term if...

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Naturalization Proclivities, Ethnicity and Integration

Constant, Amelie F. - 2008

This paper studies the determinants of naturalization among Turkish and ex-Yugoslav immigrants in Germany …, but not to those educated in Germany. We find that the degree of integration in German society has a differential effect … on citizenship acquisition. While a longer residence in Germany has a negative influence on actual or future …

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Reading between the Lines : Using Media to Improve German Inflation Forecasts

Beckers, Benjamin - 2017

In this paper, we examine the predictive ability of automatic and expert-rated media sentiment indicators for German inflation. We find that sentiment indicators are competitive in providing inflation forecasts against a large set of common macroeconomic and financial predictors. Sophisticated...

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Fifty Shades of State : Quantifying Housing Market Regulations in Germany

Kholodilin, Konstantin A. - 2015

The paper aims at measuring the rental housing market regulations in Germany between 1913 and 2015. Four classes of … of regulations in Germany related to the growing housing scarcity in large cities due to intra- and international …

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Do Media Data Help to Predict German Industrial Production?

Kholodilin, Konstantin A. - 2014

provided by Media Tenor International, based on the sentiment analysis of all relevant media information in Germany from 2001 …

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Kholodilin, Konstantin A. - 2014

, housing policy was carried out in different countries differently. This is particularly true for Germany and Russia. Even … Germany and Russia, identifying the similarities and differences …

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Market Break or Simply Fake? Empirics on the Causal Effects of Rent Controls in Germany

Kholodilin, Konstantin A. - 2016

Rising rents in German cities have led to an intense debate about the need for tighter rent controls in housing markets. In April 2015, the so-called rental brake was introduced, which imposes upper bounds for rents in new contracts, in order to immediately slow down the increase of rents in...

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