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Germany, the two largest electricity distribution countries in Europe. We examine the relative performance of 99 French and 77 …
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Im deutschen Strommarkt spielen Forwardkontrakte, über die ein wesentlicher Teil des gesamten Stromhandels abgewickelt wird, eine bedeutende Rolle. Indem zukünftige Stromlieferungen zu einem wesentlich früheren Zeitpunkt preislich fixiert werden, bieten diese Kontrakte die Möglichkeit, auf...
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Efficiency and Climate Change Mitigation -- 2 Contracting and Mikro-KWK - the Role of Municipal Utilities in Germany -- 3 … EU Emissions Trading Schemes -- 7 Microgeneration in the UK and Germany from a Technological Innovation Systems … include Germany, Denmark, the UK, Switzerland, and the Netherlands …
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rates and the homeownership-income inequality among young households in Finland, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US, and … highest and most equally distributed homeownership in this country as well. The mortgage market in Germany is on the other …
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and the Socio-Economic Panel in Germany we find gains from economic growth in the United States over their 1990s business …-1989). Furthermore, they were more equitably distributed than were the gains in Germany over their 1990s business cycle (1991 … States and Great Britain the entire income distribution moved upward in the 1990s. In Germany, as was the case in the United …
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This paper examines the significance of different fundamental regimes by applying various monetary models of the exchange rate to one of the politically most important exchange rates, the exchange rate of the US dollar vis-à-vis the euro (the DM). We use monthly data from 1975:01 to 2007:12....
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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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This paper proposes a test for the existence and degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior and derive testable conditions. Then, we implement the...
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This paper compares child poverty dynamics cross-nationally using panel data from seven nations: the USA, Britain …, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Hungary and Russia. As well as using standard relative poverty definitions the paper examines flows … transition has led to a much higher degree of mobility. Interestingly, the USA, which has the highest level of relative poverty …
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