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-level data from three countries with similar industry structure but different energy policies: Germany, Switzerland, and Austria …
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The main characteristic of the implementation of the European Monetary Union (EMU) is the transition from various national currencies to the Euro, the common European currency. A final fixing of the individual bilateral exchange rates of all European countries involved in the Monetary Union...
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Dem Neugründungsgeschehen in Dienstleistungsbranchen wird oft zugeschrieben, dass es einen wesentlichen Beitrag zum Strukturwandel zu einer wissensorientierten Wirtschaft leistet. Die hier vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die regionstypenspezifischen Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten im...
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Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Economists are interested in the achievement and well-being of these "home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of migration in the sending countries. This paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration...
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This paper assesses the consequences of EU enlargement for East West migration. In the theoretical part, we identify several factors in addition to the reduction of moving costs by which EU membership influences migration. Specifically, EU accession affects income gaps. Moreover, if EU...
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survey of more than 2,000 creative industry enterprises from Austria which are defined by a combination of sector affiliation …
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Mit der steigenden Nachfrage nach neuem Wissen kommt der öffentlichen Forschung eine wachsende Rolle als Produzentin von wirtschaftlich relevantem Wissen zu. Durch eine Stärkung des Wissens- und Technologietransfers soll dieses Potenzial besser für Wachstum und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit einer...
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Basu (2006) argues that the prevalence of 99 cent prices in shops can be explained with rational consumers who disregard the rightmost digits of the price. This bounded rational behaviour leads to a Bertrand equilibrium with positive markups. We use data from an Austrian price comparison site...
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-commerce. We combine data from Austria's largest online site for price comparisons with retail-data on whole sale prices provided …
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Cartels were legal to a large extent in Austria until the country’s EU Accession in 1995. We examine archival material …
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