In this paper we consider trends in the distribution of player talent across association football clubs over time … margin. We use this measure to analyze the degree of competitive balance over time. This approach enables us to examine how … player mobility drives competitive balance over time. Empirical results are based on 19 seasons of the first two divisions of …

creditors play an active role in disciplining. Block purchases have a monitoring role in Belgium and Germany, but not in France …

In this paper we empirically test whether public R&D subsidies crowd out private R&D investment in Flanders and Germany …

Germany. Based on two comparable household surveys, I estimate the wage gap between part-time and full-time employees in … Germany and the Netherlands, taking into account individual and job-specific characteristics and treating participation and … years in employment. The comparison with the wage structure in the Netherlands, which exhibits much smaller wage …

of the exchange rate uncertainty. Formerly, the latter influenced foreign trade. At the same time, however, the autonomy …

first few quarters. This combination resulted in a major increase of imports from the main trading partners of West Germany … in other countries leading to a feedback on Germany. The paper provides a short overview over the basic model. The …Zum Zeitpunkt der deutschen Wiedervereinigung befand sich die westdeutsche Volkswirtschaft bereits seit einiger Zeit in …

This paper investigates the functioning of regional labour markets in Italy and Germany for different employee groups … Italy. In the case of Germany, results are quite sensitive to the model specification and the employee group considered. In …. In the light of high and persistent differences in unemployment and wage rates between the North and South of Italy and …