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Equal split in the informal market for group train travel
Waichman, Israel; Korzhenevych, Artem; Requate, Tilman - 2010
In this paper we make use of a unique dataset collected in the central train station of Kiel, Germany. A group ticket …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003983147
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Rational forecasts or social opinion dynamics? : Identification of interaction effects in a business climate survey
Lux, Thomas (contributor) - 2008
This paper develops a methodology for estimating the parameters of dynamic opinion or expectation formation processes with social interactions. We study a simple stochastic framework of a collective process of opinion formation by a group of agents who face a binary decision problem. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003715033
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Do labour market institutions matter? : Micro-level wage effects of international outsourcing in three European countries
Geishecker, Ingo (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor);  … - 2008
labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003640083
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Sentiment dynamics and stock returns : the case of the German stock market
Lux, Thomas (contributor) - 2008
We use weekly survey data on short-term and medium-term sentiment of German investors in order to study the causal relationship between investors' mood and subsequent stock price changes. In contrast to extant literature for other countries, a tri-variate vector autoregression for short-run...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003785005
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Firm heterogeneity and choice of ownership structure : an empirical analysis of German FDI in India
Görg, Holger; Lauber, Verena; Meyer, Birgit; … - 2008
We contribute to the nascent literature on the heterogeneity of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and the relevance of firm characteristics for analyzing the determinants of outward foreign direct investment (FDI). The focus is on the role of firm-level heterogeneity when MNEs decide on the share...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003772206
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Unemployment accounts and employment incentives
Brown, Alessio J. G. (contributor);  … - 2006
We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003313858
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Aid allocation through various official and private channels : need, merit and self-interest as motives of German donors
Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2009
Assembly. -- Aid allocation ; aid channels ; donor motives ; Germany ; Tobit models …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003864489
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They are even larger! : More (on) puzzling labor market volatilities
Gartner, Hermann; Merkl, Christian; Rothe, Thomas - 2009
This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, labor market tightness, and job vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003825019
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Incentives and complementarities of flexicurity
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2009
microfounded model of searching workers and firms, calibrate it to Germany and perform the policy experiment of implementing the … show that implementing the Danish flexicurity concept in Germany would reduce unemployment and earnings inequality … Germany - the reduction of unemployment effect is nearly 40% greater when the policies are implemented in conjunction than in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850634
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Firm heterogeneity, industry characteristics and types of FDI : the case of German FDI in the Czech Republic
Görg, Holger; Mühlen, Henning; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2009
In addition to firm and industry characteristics, the heterogeneity of foreign direct investment (FDI) has to be taken into account when analyzing the determinants of outward FDI. We combine two firm-specific datasets on German firms with subsidiaries and joint ventures in the Czech Republic,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872043