German social security records involve an indicator for part-time or full-time work. In 2011, the reporting procedure was changed suggesting that a fraction of worker recorded to be working full-time before the change were in fact part-time workers. This study develops a correction based on...

Despite the importance for socio-economic outcomes, there is an ongoing debate about the stability of personality traits over the life cycle. By disentangling age, period and cohort influences on personality traits, this paper adds to the existing empirical contributions, which often focus on...

Der folgende Beitrag analysiert die Auswirkungen von Dividendenzahlungen auf den arbitragefreien Kurs eines DAX-Futures. Es zeigt sich, daß die klassische Formel der Cash&Carry-Arbitrage für die Bewertung des DAX-Futures nicht sachgerecht ist, da steuerliche Effekte aus Dividendenzahlungen...