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Merger policy in digital markets : an ex-post assessment

Argentesi, Elena; Buccirossi, Paolo; Calvano, Emilio; … - 2019

This paper presents a broad retrospective evaluation of mergers and merger decisions in the digital sector. We first discuss the most crucial features of digital markets such as network effects, multi-sidedness, big data, and rapid innovation that create important challenges for competition...

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E-business in service industries : usage patterns and service gaps

Preißl, Brigitte - 2003

for France, Germany, Italy and the UK. It will be particularly interesting to have a closer look at the situation in … Germany, since this country is generally considered a "service laggard" (see summaries of the debate in Cornetz/Schäfer 1999 … holds for the introduction of innovative technology-based business models in service firms. If service sectors in Germany …

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Nuclear power in the twenty-first century

Hirschhausen, Christian R. von - 2017

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Estimation of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson inequality indices from complex survey data

Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen - 2003 - This version: 11 April 2003

Applying a method suggested by Woodruff (1971), we derive the sampling variances of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson inequality indices when estimated from complex survey data. It turns out that this method also greatly simplifies the calculations for the i.i.d. case when compared to previous...

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Measuring alpha in the fund management industry : do female managers perform better?

Babalos, Vassilios; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - 2013

This paper examines the performance of 358 European diversified equity mutual funds controlling for gender differences. Fund performance is evaluated against funds' designated market indices and representative style portfolios. Consistently with previous studies, no significant differences in...

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Mortgage market maturity and homeownership inequality among young households : a five-country perspective

Bičáková, Alena (contributor); … - 2008

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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Apply with caution : introducing UK-style in-work support in Germany

Haan, Peter (contributor); Myck, Michal (contributor) - 2006

into the German tax and benefit system. Our simulation results suggest that introducing in-work Tax Credits in Germany … results call for a high degree of caution as far as importingʺ UK-style Tax Credits to Germany is concerned. In-work support …

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Income inequality in the 1990s : comparing the United States, Great Britain and Germany

Burkhauser, Richard V. (contributor); … - 2006

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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On the role of stock market for real economic activity : evidence for Europe

Siliverstovs, Boriss (contributor); … - 2006

(represented by the real GDP), the economic sentiment indicator, and real interest rate for the five European countries: Germany …

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The dynamics of European inflation expectations

Döpke, Jörg; Dovern, Jonas; Fritsche, Ulrich; … - 2006

European economies (France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom). Using survey data on household and expert inflation …

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