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How Should Europe Think About Economic Security?

Tagliapietra, Simone; Trasi, Cecilia - In: Intereconomics 59 (2024) 2, pp. 88-91

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The Spatial Evolution of a European Hydrogen Economy

Wolf, André - In: Intereconomics 58 (2023) 2, pp. 111-118

Green hydrogen has outgrown the testing stage: over the next few years, consortia across Europe will be investing large … sums to build the supply chains of tomorrow. However, Europe as a whole will only be successful if it aligns the …

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Developing European Safe Assets

Janse, Kalin Anev - In: Intereconomics 58 (2023) 6, pp. 315-319

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Human capital and economic development: A macroeconomic assessment

Gundlach, Erich - In: Intereconomics 32 (1997) 1, pp. 23-35

The role of human capital has so far not been well documented at the macroeconomic level. Many empirical studies lack a consistent theoretical foundation and there are measurement problems due to a very narrow concept of human capital focusing on formal education. Future empirical research...

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The Bologna Process: how student mobility affects multi-cultural skills and educational quality

Mechtenberg, Lydia; Strausz, Roland - 2006

We analyze the two goals behind the European Bologna Process of increasing student mobility: enabling graduates to develop multi-cultural skills and increasing the quality of universities. We isolate three effects: 1) a competition effect that raises quality; 2) a free rider effect that lowers...

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Implementing quotas in university admissions: An experimental analysis

Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; … - 2012

Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the … quota for top-grade students before allocating all other seats among remaining applicants. The second is a modi ed version … main result is that the current procedure, designed to give top-grade students an advantage, actually harms them, as …

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Stock markets and business cvycle comovement in Germany before World War I: evidence from spectral analysis

Ritschl, Albrecht; Uebele, Martin - 2005

especially before 1890. We find impressive comovement between the stock market and nominal wages, a sub-series of Hoffmann …

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The stochastic fluctuation of the quantile regression curve

Härdle, Wolfgang Karl; Song, Song - 2008

Let (X1, Y1), . . ., (Xn, Yn) be i.i.d. rvs and let l(x) be the unknown p-quantile regression curve of Y on X. A quantile-smoother ln(x) is a localised, nonlinear estimator of l(x). The strong uniform consistency rate is established under general conditions. In many applications it is necessary...

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Biases in estimates of the smoking wage penalty

Anger, Silke; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2006

Empirical studies on the earnings effects of tobacco use have found significant wage penalties attached to smoking. We produce evidence that suggests that these estimates are significantly upward biased. The bias arises from a general failure in the literature to control for the past smoking...

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Bye bye, GI: The impact of the US military drawdown on local German labor markets

aus dem Moore, Jan Peter; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2012

unemployment, whereas migration patterns and wages were not affected. …

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