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German exchange rate exposure at DAX and aggregate level, international trade, and the role of exchange rate adjustment costs

Entorf, Horst (contributor); Jamin, Gösta (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Agglomeration, population size, and the cost of providing public services : an empirical analysis for German states

Büttner, Thiess (contributor); Schwager, Robert (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Reforming home care provision in Germany : evidence from a social experiment

Arntz, Melanie (contributor); … - 2008

In a long-run social experiment, personal budgets have been tested as an alternative to the home care programs of the German long-term care insurance (LTCI). Due to extending the coverage beyond LTCI approved services and agencies, personal budgets may improve care outcomes compared to the...

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The cost of phasing out nuclear power : a quantitative assessment of alternative scenarios for Germany

Böhringer, Christoph; Hoffmann, Tim; Vögele, Stefan - 2000

In the debate on the premature phase-out of nuclear power generation in Germany, there is an intense dispute on the effective operating time for the existing nuclear power plants. This paper addresses the question of how alternative phase-out regulations affect both the magnitude of total...

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Kosten der privaten Altersvorsorge : private Rentenversicherungen und Fondssparpläne im Vergleich

Westerheide, Peter - 2001

deutlich, dass die laufenden Kosten von aufgeschobenen Leibrentenversicherungen zum Teil deutlich unter den Kosten für … Ansparen in Investmentfonds mit gleicher durchschnittlicher Renditeerwartung vor Kosten, wie sie private Rentenversicherungen … bieten, und den hier unterstellten Kosten für aktienorientierte Investmentfonds aus Kostensicht nicht immer effizient ist …

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Increasing energy and resource efficiency through innovation : an explorative analysis using innovation survey data

Rennings, Klaus; Rammer, Christian - 2009

Energy and resource efficiency innovations (EREIs) are often seen as win-win opportunities for both the economic and the environmental performance of firms. It is thus worth asking how the innovation activities and performance of firms with regard to energy and resource efficiency look like: Do...

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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...

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The unification bonus (malus) in postwall Eastern Germany

Beblo, Miriam; Collier, Irwin L.; Knaus, Thomas - 2001

This paper presents estimates of the unification bonus for East Germans over the period 1991 to 1998. The unification bonus is defined as the discounted value of the difference between a person's actual income and his or her counterfactual real income stream forecast for a hypothetical...

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The costs of supervisory fragmentation in Europe

Schüler, Martin (contributor); … - 2005

Financial markets in Europe become more and more integrated. The persisting fragmentation of financial supervision, however, constitutes a lasting obstacle to integration. The aim of this paper is to assess these costs of supervisory fragmentation. We find clear evidence for the existence of...

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Who should pay for certification?

Stahl, Konrad; Strausz, Roland - 2011

Who does, and who should initiate costly certification by a third party under asymmetric quality information, the buyer or the seller? Our answer - the seller - follows from a nontrivial analysis revealing a clear intuition. Buyer-induced certification acts as an inspection device,...

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