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The host with the most? : the effects of the Olympic Games on happiness

Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - 2016

We show that hosting the Olympic Games in 2012 had a positive impact on the life satisfaction and happiness of Londoners during the Games, compared to residents of Paris and Berlin. Notwithstanding issues of causal inference, the magnitude of the effects is equivalent to moving from the bottom...

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Top-down vs. bottom-up: the long-term impact of government ideology and personal experience on values

Ziebarth, Nicolas R.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2013

sports. We apply the German Reunification Approach to the microcosm of Berlin and exploit its 40-year long division into a … extramural sports experience and age are equally strong predictors of individual attitudes and beliefs, especially in interaction …

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Does aging influence sectoral employment shares? : evidence from panel data

Thießen, Ulrich (contributor); … - 2008

In this study, we investigate whether population aging influences employment shares in different economic sectors. To this end, we employ dynamic panel data analysis. Our unbalanced data set comprises 54 countries and extends to a maximum time period from 1970 till 2004. Our results suggest that...

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Analysis of the world market for steam coal using a complementarity model

Haftendorn, Clemens (contributor); … - 2008

With its resource availability and the prospect of climate friendly technology, coal continues to play an important role in the global energy sector. We develop a complementarity model of the international market for steam coal. We want to analyze the level of competition in this market which is...

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Does the nominal exchange rate regime affect the real interest parity condition?

Dreger, Christian (contributor) - 2008

The real interest partity (RIP) condition combines two cornerstones in international finance, uncovered interest parity (UIP) and ex ante purchasing power parity (PPP). The extent of deviation from RIP is therefore an indicator of the lack of product and financial market integration. This paper...

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Long-Term contracts and asset specificity revisited : an empirical analysis of producer-importer relations in the natural gas industry

Neumann, Anne (contributor); … - 2006

In this paper, we analyze structural changes in long-term contracts in the international trade of natural gas. Using a unique data set of 262 long-term contracts between natural gas producers and importers, we estimate the impact of different institutional, structural and technical variables on...

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Ecological labelling in North-South trade

Althammer, Wilhelm (contributor); … - 2006

We investigate in a horizontal product differentiation model with North-South trade the implications of a home bias in consumers' demand for labelled goods. We compare mutual recognition and international harmonisation of ecological labels with respect to firms' profits and welfare. Northern...

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International wealth effects

Slacalek, Jirka (contributor) - 2006

This paper investigates the wealth effect for 16 industrial countries using the recently proposed technique that exploits the sluggishness of consumption growth. I estimate that the longrun marginal propensity to consume from wealth varies from less than 0.5 cents in France to 4.5 cents in the...

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Forecasting the fragility of the banking and insurance sector

Bernoth, Kerstin; Pick, Andreas - 2009

This paper considers the issue of forecasting financial fragility of banks and insurances using a panel data set of performance indicators, namely distance-to- default, taking unobserved common factors into account. We show that common factors are important in the performance of banks and...

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Representing GASPEC with the World Gas Model

Egging, Ruud; Holz, Franziska; Hirschhausen, Christian … - 2008

countries, sometimes called GASPEC. We use the World Gas Model, a dynamic, strategic representation of world gas production … North America would be affected more than other parts of the world. Lastly, the vulnerability of gas importers worldwide on … ; trade ; cartel ; collusion ; World Gas Model …

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