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Strulik, Holger - 2009

adjustment dynamics in line with the historical facts on savings and economic growth in Europe from the High Middle Ages to today …

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Are Foreign Institutional Investors Good for Emerging Markets?

Menkhoff, Lukas; Frenkel, Michael - 2003

Portfolio flows channeled via institutional investors were the most dynamic capital flows to emerging markets in the 1990s. We use an asymmetric information framework to derive five propositions, to integrate empirical evidence and to suggest policy implications. Opaque information in emerging...

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Internationales Benchmarking von Gesundheitssystemen : Ansatz zur Problemlösung?

Wente, Tobias; Vauth, Christoph - 2003

Die Gesundheitssysteme stehen weltweit zur Diskussion. Kann internationales Benchmarking ganzer Gesundheitssysteme dazu beitragen, Lösungen für deren Probleme zu finden? Diese Arbeit stellt drei aktuelle Ansätze solcher Vergleiche vor. Hierbei werden die Erkenntnisse ebenso erläutert wie die...

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Empirische Erfahrungen, Versichertenverhalten zu steuern

Osmers, Henning; Vauth, Christoph - 2004

Steigende Kosten in den meisten Gesundheitssystemen und die damit verbundenen Finanzierungsprobleme stehen im Focus von vielen empirischen Untersuchungen. Wissenschaftler sind der Meinung, dass falsch gesetzte Anreize einer der Hauptgründe hierfür darstellen. Die vorliegende Arbeit umreißt...

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Degrees of development: how geographic latitude sets the pace of industrialization and demographic change

Strulik, Holger - 2008

Successful economic development is usually characterized by two salient phenomena: industrialization and demographic transition. Chronologically both events happen so closely to each other that historians and economists alike suspect that they are interrelated. This paper develops a theory for...

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The G20 proposal on IMF governance: Is there progress?

Menkhoff, Lukas; Meyer, Reeno - 2010

The G20 summits in 2009 have proposed major changes in governance of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Most important seems to be the acknowledgment that the IMF in its current form lacks legitimacy and ownership. Accordingly, the G20 suggests a reallocation of voting shares to emerging and...

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Are momentum traders different? Implications for the momentum puzzle

Menkhoff, Lukas - 2010

This paper examines the puzzlingly high unexploited momentum returns from a new perspective. We analyze characteristics of momentum traders in a sample of 692 fund managers. We find that momentum traders are 'defined' by their short-term horizon, by a behavioural view on the market and by a...

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The fertility transition around the world - 1950-2005

Strulik, Holger; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2010

In this paper we analyze the distribution of fertility rates across the world using parametric mixture models. We … demonstrate the existence of twin peaks and the division of the world's countries in two distinct components: a high … continue to exists over the whole observation period. In 1950 about two thirds of the world's countries belonged to the high …

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The use of technical analysis by fund managers: International evidence

Menkhoff, Lukas - 2010

The use of technical analysis by financial market professionals is not well understood. This paper thus analyzes survey evidence from 692 fund managers in five countries, the vast majority of whom rely on technical analysis. At a forecasting horizon of weeks, technical analysis is the most...

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Marktzugang und Preisbildung auf Arzneimittelmärkten im internationalen Vergleich

Wasem, Jürgen; Niebuhr, Dea; Greß, Stefan - 2005

Die vorliegende Untersuchung befasst sich zunächst mit einem internationalen Vergleich der Regulierung auf Arzneimittelmärkten. Nach einer Auswertung und Analyse von Preisvergleichsstudien untersucht sie international vergleichend Erstattungsregulierungen und Preisregulierungen. Hierbei wird...

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