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In this paper we use a simple bureaucracy model of fiscal illusion to analyze the impact of intergovernmental grants on the cost effciency of local jurisdictions. We find that a higher degree of redistribution within a system of fiscal equalization or an increase in the amount of grants received...
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This paper shows that training of older employees is less effective. Training effectiveness is measured with respect to key dimensions such as career development, earnings, adoption of new skills, flexibility or job security. Older employees also pursue less ambitious goals with their training...
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, depicting the relationship between the firms’ pre-treatment export-sales ratio and their subsequent sales growth rate as a …
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We use a unique private data set of about 340,000 invoice positions from 36 smaller and larger customers of German cement producers to study the value of such transaction data for an estimation of cartel damages. In particular, we investigate, first, how structural break analysis can be used to...
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This paper investigates whether transfer pricing of intrafirm sales within multinationals represents an important … directly the supposed tax response of intrafirm sales. The analysis shows a significantly negative impact of the local tax rate … on the size of balance sheet items, which reflect intrafirm sales. Thus, the results suggest that transfer pricing of …
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This paper discusses the incentives for innovation when liability is limited or not. Clearly innovative activity … involves risk. On the one hand, the risk of firm owners is limited if their liability is limited. On the other hand credits … will be more difficult to receive if liability is limited. The paper first discusses these issues theoretically and then …
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We use consumer panel data to calculate the damage suffered by German consumers due to a detergent cartel that was active between 2002 and 2005 in eight European countries. Applying before-and-after and difference-in-differences estimations we find average overcharges between 6.7 and 6.9 percent...
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Arbeitsmarktentwicklung und die Arbeitsmarktprobleme in Deutschland. Vor diesem Hintergrund erfolgt eine Analyse und Bewertung der Reform von …
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In recent years, coinciding with the discussion led in many OECD countries, Germany has started to contract out … contracted out so far in Germany. In this paper a microeconometric evaluation of this system using propensity score matching is …
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