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Financial student aid and enrollment into higher education: new evidence from Germany

Steiner, Viktor; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2008

We estimate the elasticity of enrollment into higher education with respect to the amount of means tested student aid (BAfoeG) provided by the federal government using the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP). Potential student aid is derived on the basis of a detailed taxbenefit microsimulation...

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Support Vector Machines (SVM) as a technique for solvency analysis

Auria, Laura; Moro, Rouslan A. - 2008

This paper introduces a statistical technique, Support Vector Machines (SVM), which is considered by the Deutsche Bundesbank as an alternative for company rating. A special attention is paid to the features of the SVM which provide a higher accuracy of company classification into solvent and...

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Businesswomen in Germany and their performance by ethnicity: it pays to be self-employed

Constant, Amelie F. - 2008

wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried …-employment sector that offers better opportunities and monetary success. Self-employed women in Germany fare well and most importantly …

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Fairness of public pensions and old-age poverty

Breyer, Friedrich; Hupfeld, Stefan - 2008

In several OECD countries, public pay-as-you-go financed pension systems have undergone major reforms in which future retirement benefit promises have been scaled down. A consequence of these reforms is that especially in countries with a tight tax-benefit linkage, the retirement benefit claims...

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Greenhouse gas mitigation in a carbon constrained world: the role of carbon capture and storage

Praetorius, Barbara; Schumacher, Katja - 2008

sustainable energy future. In this paper, we discuss the relevant issues for the case of Germany. We provide a survey of the … equilibrium model for Germany. The model analyzes the impact of introducing carbon constraints with respect to the deployment of … in Germany. For example, under the assumption of a CO2 policy, both energy efficiency and CCS will contribute to climate …

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Caught in the US subprime meltdown 2007/2008: Germany loses its wallet but escapes major Harm

Kooths, Stefan; Rieger, Matthias - 2008

spill-over from the banking sector to the real economy in Germany. …

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Advanced mechanisms for the promotion of renewable energy: models for the future evolution of the German Renewable Energy Act

Langniß, Ole; Diekmann, Jochen; Lehr, Ulrike - 2008

other renewable energy power generating technologies in Germany. The increasing share of EEG-power in the generation …

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Preferences for childcare policies: theory and evidence

Borck, Rainald; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2008

We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from...

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Effective profit taxation and the elasticity of the corporate income tax base: evidence from German corporate tax return data

Dwenger, Nadja; Steiner, Viktor - 2008

introduction of a major corporate tax reform in Germany. Endogeneity of the effective tax rate is controlled for by an instrumental …

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International benchmarking in electricity distribution: a comparison of French and German utilities

Cullmann, Astrid; Crespo, Hélène; Plagnet, Marie-Anne - 2008

Germany, the two largest electricity distribution countries in Europe. We examine the relative performance of 99 French and 77 …

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