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Student Loan Reforms for German Higher Education : Financing Tuition Fees

Chapman, Bruce - 2011

It is generally agreed that the funding base for German universities is inadequate and perhaps the time has come for serious consideration of the imposition of nontrivial tuition charges. Against this background, this paper compares conventional and income contingent loans for financing tuition...

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Emissions Trading : Impact on Electricity Prices and Energy-Intensive Industries

Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Vance, Colin - 2008

The EU-wide Emission Trading Scheme (ETS), established in 2005, is a key pillar of Europe's strategy to attain compliance with the Kyoto Protocol. Under this scheme, CO2 allowances have thus far been allocated largely free of charge. This paper demonstrates that such cost-free allocation,...

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The Burden of Germany's Energy Transition – An Empirical Analysis of Distributional Effects

Frondel, Manuel - 2015

Germany's energy transition has been accompanied by a near doubling of power prices for private households since the outset of the new millennium. Millions of poor households and those that are close to the poverty threshold are likely to suffer from these increases in electricity cost. Focusing...

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Exports and Capacity Constraints – A Smooth Transition Regression Model for Six Euro Area Countries

Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2013

Traditional specifications of export equations incorporate foreign demand as a demand pull factor and the real exchange … rate as a relative price variable. However, such standard export equations have failed to explain the export performance of … euro area countries during the crisis period. In particular, the significant gains in export market shares in a number of …

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Exchange Rate Bands of Inaction and Play -- Hysteresis in Greek Exports to the Euro Area, the US and Turkey -- Sectoral Evidence

Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2016

exports is estimated based on the period from 1995Q1 to 2014Q4. Looking at some of the main export partners of Greece, the … for a part of the Greek exports. We find that Greek export activity is characterized by “bands of inaction” with respect … exports. To check for robustness we (a) estimate Greek export equations for a limited sample excluding the recent financial …

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Promoting Biofuels : Implications for Developing Countries

Peters, Jörg; Thielmann, Sascha - 2015

Interest in biofuels is growing worldwide as concerns about the security of energy supply and climate change are moving into the focus of policy makers. With the exception of bioethanol from Brazil, however, production costs of biofuels are typically much higher than those of fossil fuels. As a...

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Measuring Energy Supply Risks : A G7 Ranking

Frondel, Manuel; Ritter, Nolan; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2009

The security of energy supply has again become a similarly hot topic as it was during the oil crises in the 1970s, not least due to the recent historical oil price peaks. In this paper, we analyze the energy security situation of the G7 countries using a statistical risk indicator and empirical...

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Measuring Energy Security - A Conceptual Note

Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2013

multitude of export countries as well as data on the indigenous contribution to the domestic energy supply into a single …

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Trade-FDI Linkages in a System of Gravity Equations for German Regional Data

Mitze, Timo - 2009

with non-zero trade costs, we observe export replacement effects of FDI. However, at the same time outward FDI stimulates … trade via reverse good imports. For the West German-EU15 sub-sample we even reveal complementaries among export and outward …

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Is There a Homogeneous Causality Pattern between Oil Prices and Currencies of Oil Importers and Exporters?

Beckmann, Joscha - 2013

Although the link between oil prices and dollar exchange rates has been frequently analyzed, a clear distinction between prices and nominal exchange rate dynamics and a clarification of the issue of causality has not been provided. In addition, previous studies have mostly neglected...

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