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Crowding out informal care? : evidence from a social experiment in Germany
Arntz, Melanie (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper evaluates the effects of a professionally assisted consumer-directed program (Personal Budgets) compared to the standard home care programs of the German long-term care insurance. The evaluation makes use of a long-run social experiment at seven different sites with a random...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793884
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793896
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Soziale Experimente mit dem Pflegebudget (2004 - 2008) - Konzeption des Evaluationsdesigns
Arntz, Melanie (contributor);  … - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002515481
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Dynamic optimal capital structure and technological change
Lööf, Hans - 2003
equity financing than Swedish firms depending on which measure used, while the ratio of debt to sales is highest in Sweden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448232
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Peer effects in European primary schools : evidence from PIRLS
Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor);  … - 2006
We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003314712
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Suchmaschinen unter der Lupe : Informationsherrschaft und ihre Schranken
Peitz, Martin; Schweitzer, Heike - 2016
einer Regulierung gestellt. Die "Informationsherrschaft" hat dabei verschiedene Seiten: Zum einen kann die unbegrenzte … diese Interessen gegeneinander abwägen. Mit der "Regulierung" gegenläufiger informationeller Interessen obliegt ihnen eine … öffentliche Regulierungsfunktion zuzuweisen. In diesem Artikel sprechen wir uns gegen eine solche ex-ante-Regulierung aus. Das …
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Incentive regulation : evidence from German electricity networks
Hellwig, Michael; Schober, Dominik; Cabral, Luís M. B. - 2019 - This version: January 29, 2019
used to determine future prices when subject to a lower-powered regulation mechanism. The difference is particularly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011971656
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Die Bedeutung von OTT-Diensten für die Telekommunikationsregulierung
Fetzer, Thomas - 2016
Regulierung auf Substitut-OTT-Dienste als auch durch eine Rückführung der bestehenden Regulierung für alle Dienste herbeizuführen … im Sinne einer Zwangsläufigkeit zur vollständigen Aufhebung der sektorspezifischen Regulierung beantwortet werden ... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522669
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Incentive regulation : evidence from German electricity networks
Hellwig, Michael; Schober, Dominik; Cabral, Luís M. B. - 2018
subject to a lower-powered regulation mechanism. The difference is particularly significant (about 7%) for firms in the upper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795225
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International stock return predictability under model uncertainty
Schrimpf, Andreas (contributor) - 2008
This paper examines return predictability when the investor is uncertain about the right state variables. A novel feature of the model averaging approach used in this paper is to account for finite-sample bias of the coefficients in the predictive regressions. Drawing on an extensive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003728591