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Centralizing tendencies in the public sector in Germany
Stegarescu, Dan (contributor) - 2005
This paper investigates the long-term trend and the underlying determinants of public sector centralization in Germany … from 1871 until today. The institutional and the quantitative review of the German history provides no conclusive evidence … the case of Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003025562
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Die Evolution der bundesdeutschen Forschungs- und Technologiepolitik : Rückblick und Bestandsaufnahme
Fier, Andreas; Harhoff, Dietmar - 2001
In Deutschland beanspruchen gleich zwei Ressorts, das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) sowie das … Förderinstrumentariums zu dem Schluss, dass insbesondere die Wirkungsforschung in Deutschland noch unterentwickelt ist und vor neuen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446955
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446171
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Modeling German unification in a disequilibrium framework
Winker, Peter; Smolny, Werner; Radowski, Daniel - 1999
Unification fundamentally changed the terms of quantitative macroeconomic analysis for Germany. Two main areas … concerned are data availability for the eastern part of Germany and structural changes within the behavioural equations after … Germany. The challenge is to handle the structural break in the time series and the economic model by applying a SUR estimator …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443482
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Impulsstudie "Telekommunikationsregulierung 4.0"
Fetzer, Thomas - 2018
Der vom Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie initiierte Fachdialog Ordnungsrahmen für die digitale Wirtschaft soll staatlichen Handlungsbedarf und staatliche Handlungsoptionen für die Etablierung eines kohärenten Ordnungsrahmens aufzeigen, der Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft einerseits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798967
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The economic impact of Olympic Games : evidence from stock markets
Dick, Christian D. (contributor); Wang, Qingwei (contributor) - 2008
By means of an event study of stock market reactions to the announcement of the Olympic Games host cities, we find a significant and positive announcement effect of hosting the Summer Games, with a cumulative abnormal return of about 2% within a few days. We do not find any significant results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003745113
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Projecting the medium-term : outcomes and errors for GDP growth
Kappler, Marcus (contributor) - 2007
The focus of this paper is the evaluation of a very popular method for potential output estimation and medium-term forecasting the production function approachin terms of predictive performance. For this purpose, a forecast evaluation for the three to five years ahead predictions of GDP growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003582516
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Energy biased technical change : a CGE analysis
Otto, Vincent M. (contributor);  … - 2005
This paper studies energy bias in technical change. For this purpose, we develop a computable general equilibrium model that builds on endogenous growth models. The model explicitly captures links between energy, the rate and direction of technical change, and the economy. We derive the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002905851
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Decomposing integrated assessment climate change
Böhringer, Christoph (contributor);  … - 2005
We present a decomposition approach for integrated assessment modeling of climate policy based on a linear approximation of the climate system. Our objective is to demonstrate the usefulness of decomposition for integrated assessment models posed in a complementarity format. First, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003110020
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Cooperation in international environmental negotiations due to a preference for equity
Lange, Andreas; Vogt, Carla - 2001
This paper demonstrates that cooperation in international environmental negotiations can be explained by preferences for equity. Within a N-country prisoner's dilemma in which agents can either cooperate or defect, in addition to the standard non-cooperative equilibrium, cooperation of a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445929