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Total costs and budgetary effects of adaptation to climate change : an assessment for the European Union
Osberghaus, Daniel; Reif, Christiane - 2010
adaptation in Europe, and in particular Germany, Finland and Italy. Furthermore, a systematic overview on fiscal aspects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003989027
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What determines local governments' technical efficiency? : the case of road maintenance
Kalb, Alexander - 2009
In this paper we investigate the determinants of local governments' technical efficiency in road maintenance for a panel of German counties using a broad variety of estimation approaches. More specifically, we calculate efficiency indices using non-parametric (DEA) and parametric (stochastic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003880933
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Politicians' opinions on rivals in the competition for firms : an empirical analysis of reference points near a border
Geys, Benny; Osterloh, Steffen - 2011 - This version: March 2011
Studies of spatial policy interdependence in (local) public policies usually concentrate on the relations between jurisdictions within a single analysed region, and disregard possible extra-regional effects. This paper evaluates the validity of such restriction by studying German local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008905492
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Voter involvement, fiscal autonomy and public sector efficiency : evidence from German municipalities
Geys, Benny (contributor); Heinemann, Friedrich (contributor) - 2008
Social and/or political involvement within the population is often argued to enhance public sector performance. The underlying idea is that engagement fosters political awareness and interest and increases the public’s monitoring ability. Still, although extensive voter involvement may put...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003721737
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R&D and firm performance in a transition economy
Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor); Kraft, Kornelius (contributor) - 2006
of firms in Western Germany and Eastern Germany as a transitional economy. Innovative activity has a positive impact on … firm value proxied by ratings in Western Germany, but a negative impact in Eastern Germany. We also consider future … financial distress, and find that R&D in Eastern German firms leads to higher default risk, in contrast to Western Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003328090
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Employment adjustments on the internal and external labour market : an empirical study with personnel records of a German company
Gerlach, Knut (contributor); Hübler, Olaf (contributor) - 2008
Firms are affected by the product demand. This leads to employment adjustments. In the literature we find only very few contributions investigating the issue whether internal adjustments are linked and which relationships exist with external adjustments. Are they of a complementary or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003805926
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The economics of adaptation to climate change : the case of Germany
Dannenberg, Astrid; Mennel, Tim; Osberghaus, Daniel; … - 2009
adaptation in Germany by analyzing impacts and adaptation options for climate-sensitive fields such as agriculture, energy, water …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003881582
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Wage convergence and inequality after unification : (East) Germany in transition
Gernandt, Johannes (contributor);  … - 2008
Germany, who lived in East Germany in 1989, with groups of West German statistical twin workers, all taken from the Socio …. Wages of migrants to West Germany equal the ones of their West German statistical twins. We conclude that labor markets in … East and West Germany are still characterized by wage differences but that the degree of inequality in both regions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003702975
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East-West German wage convergence - how far have we got?
Steiner, Viktor; Wagner, Kersten - 1997
At the start of the German unification process it was a commonly held view that east German living conditions will converge to west Geman levels within a few years. This view was not only held by notoriously optimistic politicians but also by a great many of professional economists. With...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440938
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Is Portugal really so arteriosclerotic? : results from a cross-country analysis of labor adjustment
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 1999
Reputation indexes of employment protection have proven popular constructs in studies of the covariation of labor market institutions and macroeconomic outcomes. Portugal occupies an unenviable rank order in such measures of the stringency of employment protection. We critique this reputation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442864