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through 2014. During this time, Germany imposed financial sanctions on 20 countries; two of these sanctions have been lifted …
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Taxpayer nudges - behavioral interventions that aim to increase tax compliance without changing the underlying economic incentives of taxpayers - are used increasingly by governments because of their potential cost-effectiveness in raising tax revenue. We collect about a thousand treatment...
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output between 3.2 percent and 8 percent of GDP. In an alternative scenario, in which Germany can easily replace Russian gas … to act as swiftly as possible to ensure independence from Russian energy imports. In addition, Germany’s future energy …
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output between 3.2 percent and 8 percent of GDP. In an alternative scenario, in which Germany can easily replace Russian gas … to act as swiftly as possible to ensure independence from Russian energy imports. In addition, Germany’s future energy …
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We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite-weighted patents). To explore the mechanism through which this link arises, we build a model that nests the lazy-manager hypothesis with career-concerns, where institutional...
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We present a sticky-price model incorporating heterogeneous firms and systematic firm-level productivity trends. Aggregating the model in closed form, we show that it delivers radically different predictions for the optimal inflation rate than canonical sticky price models featuring homogenous...
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countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden) for the period between 1965 and the mid-1990s. Results … reveal quite different national approaches to the problem. Whereas in Sweden, France and Germany, migrants' linguistic … Netherlands, Belgium and Austria) that were already reluctant in the early years to set up language courses for immigrants still …
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Germany is widely known for its high-quality vocational education and training (VET) system. The two key features of … enormously in the last years in many (European) countries, this has not been the case in Germany. From the outside, therefore, it … may look as if Germany’s low youth unemployment rate is to be credited to the dual system. That observation, however, is …
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Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Swe­den, Switzerland and the UK. We exploit within-country variation in social …
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