Over the past years, public smoking bans have been introduced in most European countries. Unlike elsewhere, in Germany …

This paper studies the short-term impact of public smoking bans on hospitalizations in Germany. It exploits the …

This paper proposes a new approach to evaluate the macroeconomic effects of the Hartz IV reform in Germany, which … was a major driver for the decline of Germany's unemployment and that partial and equilibrium effect where of equal …

This paper analyzes Germany's unusual labor market experience during the Great Recession. We estimate a general … equilibrium model with a detailed labor market block for postunification Germany. This allows us to disentangle the role of …

This paper studies the short-term impact of public smoking bans on hospitalizations in Germany. It exploits the …

This paper proposes a new approach to evaluate the macroeconomic effects of the Hartz IV reform in Germany, which … was a major driver for the decline of Germany's unemployment and that partial and equilibrium effect where of equal …

This paper proposes a new approach to evaluate the macroeconomic effects of the Hartz IV reform in Germany, which … was a major driver for the decline of Germany's unemployment and that partial and equilibrium effect where of equal … Deutschland darstellt, wobei der Partialeffekt und der Gleichgewichtseffekt etwa gleichbedeutend waren. Wir sind die ersten, die …

, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in …-in-differences estimates show thatthe introduction of smoke-free legislation in Germany did not change average smoking behavior within the …