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Fiscal Policy Rules for Stabilisation and Growth : A Simulation Analysis of Deficit and Expenditure Targets in a Monetary Union

Brück, Tilman - 2012

quarterly macro-econometric model of Germany. The simulations compare a deficit target and an expenditure target under a range …

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20 Years of German Unification : Evidence on Income Convergence and Heterogeneity

Brück, Tilman - 2009

We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based …, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West Germany over the fifteen years for which data are available. Using a … highest negative income gap. This probably reflects out-migration from East Germany by the young and highly skilled. On the …

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Creating Low Skilled Jobs by Subsidizing Market-Contracted Household Work

Brück, Tilman; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2021

We analyze the determinants of household work contracted in the German shadow economy. The German socio-economic household panel, which enumerates casual domestic employment, is used to estimate the demand for such household work. The regressors include regional wage rates, household income and...

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Comparing the determinants of concern about terrorism and crime

Brück, Tilman; Müller, Cathérine - 2009

Both crime and terrorism impose costs onto society through the channels of fear and worry. Identifying and targeting groups which are especially affected by worries might be one way to reduce the total costs of these two types of insecurity. However, compared to the drivers of the fear of crime,...

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20 Years of German unification : evidence on income convergence and heterogeneity

Brück, Tilman; Peters, Heiko - 2009

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Institutional trust in the time of corona : evidence from countermeasures in Germany

Stojetz, Wolfgang; Ferguson, Neil T. N.; Baliki, Ghassan; … - 2024

institutions. Drawing on micro-level panel data from Germany spanning an 18-month period from the onset of the pandemic, we show … October 2020, six months into the pandemic, when stringency measures in Germany started to increase again. For the early stage …

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Creating low skilled jobs by subsidising market-contracted houshold work

Brück, Tilman - 2003

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Creating Low Skilled Jobs by Subsidising Market-Contracted Household Work

Brück, Tilman; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018

The paper analyses the determinants of household work contracted in the German shadow economy. The German socio-economic household panel, which enumerates casual domestic employment, is used to estimate the demand for such household work. The regressors include regional wage rates, household...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014166864

Comparing the Determinants of Concern About Terrorism and Crime

Brück, Tilman; Mueller, Catherine - 2012

Both crime and terrorism impose costs onto society through the channels of fear and worry. Identifying and targeting groups that are especially affected by worries might be one way to reduce the total costs of these two types of insecurity. However, compared with the drivers of the fear of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014166865

The Economic Costs of the German Participation in the Afghanistan War

Brück, Tilman; de Groot, Olaf J.; Schneider, Friedrich - 2012

In this article, we estimate the total costs of the German participation in the Afghanistan war, both past and future. This is a hugely complex and uncertain calculation, which depends on several important assumptions. These assumptions pertain to the different cost channels and the shares of...

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