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Ökonomische Wirkungen der Handwerksnovelle 2004: Ergebnisse aus einem quasinatürlichen Experiment

Koch, Andreas; Nielen, Sebastian - 2016

Die Reform der Handwerksordnung des Jahres 2004 brachte insbesondere durch die Abschaffung der Meisterpflicht für mehr als die Hälfte der Gewerbezweige des Handwerks eine umfassende Liberalisierung der Zugangsbedingungen. Der vorliegende Beitrag analysiert unter Verwendung von Daten des...

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Leaving Home and Entering Service: The Age of Apprenticeship in Early Modern London

Wallis, Patrick; Webb, Cliff; Minns, Chris - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

Leaving home and entering service was a key transition in early modern England. This paper presents evidence on the age of apprenticeship in London. Using a new sample of 22,156 apprentices bound between 1575 and 1810, we find that apprentices became younger (from 17.4 to 14.7 years) and more...

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Rules and Reality: Quantifying the Practice of Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe

Minns, Chris; Wallis, Patrick - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

This paper uses recently digitised samples of apprentices and masters in London and Bristol to quantify the practice of apprenticeship in the late 17th century. Apprenticeship appears much more fluid than is traditionally understood. Many apprentices did not complete their terms of indenture;...

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Intercultural Training Requirements for Virtual Assignments:Results of an Explorative Empirical Study

Holtbrügge, Dirk; Schillo, Katrin - Betriebswirtschaftliches Institut <Nürnberg> / … - 2007

Virtual assignments are characterized by the spatial separation of private and business life.The virtual delegate lives and interacts in one culture, yet he or she works together mainlywith people from another culture. While the virtual assignee is physically located in theheadquarters, from an...

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The Jesuits as Knowledge Brokers Between Europe and China (1582-1773): Shaping European Views of the Middle Kingdom

Millar, Ashley E. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

motives, the roles and the consequences of the Jesuits as agents of information regarding China affected the European … and transmission of information. It finds that economic progress and political consolidation in Europe did result in a …

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Detecting Informed Trading Activities in the OptionsMarkets

Chesney, Marc; Crameri, Remo; Mancini, Loriano - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2009

This paper presents a new method to detect informed trading activities in the options markets.An option trade is identified as informed when it is characterized by an unusual largeincrement in open interest and volume, induces large gains, and is not hedged in the stock market.For the period...

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International Capital Flows under DispersedInformation: Theory and Evidence

Tille, Cédric; Van Wincoop, Eric - Finrisk - 2008

We develop a new theory of international capital flows based on dispersed in-formation across individual investors …-standing asset price behavior. We introduce information dispersion into an openeconomy dynamic general equilibrium portfolio choice … model, and emphasize twoimplications for capital flows that are specic to the presence of dispersed infor-mation. First …

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Post Mortem Reputation, Compensatory Gifts and Equal Bequests

Lundholm, Michael; Ohlsson, Henry - 1999

theoretical model assuming, first, that the amounts given is private information, only known to the donor and the donee, while the … amounts bequeathed is public information. Second, we assume that parents care about the reputation that their bequest behavior …

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Unique equilibrium in contests with incomplete information

Ewerhart, Christian; Quartieri, Federico - 2013

unique pure-strategy Nash equilibrium in rent-seeking games of complete information. In this paper, we generalize their … results to contests with incomplete informa tion. Two assumptions are imposed on the information structure. First, the players …

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Mandatory disclosure and financial contagion

Alvarez, Fernando; Barlevy, Gadi - 2014

of contagion is large, it is possible for no information to be disclosed in equilibrium but for mandatory disclosure to …

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