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Land Access, Tenure and Investment in Post-War Northern Mozambique

Brück, Tilman - 2003

The relationship between land investment and tenure security is usually tested in land scarce but peaceful areas. This article examines instead the effects of land abundance and war for investment and tenure security. The paper demonstrates that war enhances land abundance. This implies that...

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Do Organizational Forms matter? An Econometric Analysis of Innovativeness in the German Wastewater Sector

Tauchmann, Harald; Clausen, Hartmut - 2004

In the German wastewater sector, innovations are often regarded to be the key to both more efficient service provision and reduction of environmental and health-related problems. However, it is unclear what factors foster these innovations. One possible candidate factor is increased competition...

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Threshold Effects of Dismissal Protection Legislation in Germany

Verick, Sher - 2004

In this paper we use a reform in the applicability of the Protection Against Dismissal Act or Kündigungsschutzgesetz in Germany to identify employment effects of the legislation for small establishments. Using a panel of establishments for the period 1997-2001, we find some evidence that a...

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Who Among White Collar Workers Has an Opportunity for Phased Retirement? : Establishment Characteristics

Grace-Martin, Karen; Hutchens, Robert M. - 2004

Utilizing a new survey of employers, this paper examines how and why establishments differ in their willingness to permit an older full-time white-collar worker to take phased retirement. Phased retirement means that an older worker remains with his or her employer while gradually reducing work...

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Too Big To Fail: Ein gordischer Knoten für die Finanzmarktaufsicht?

Kellermann, Kersten - 2010

Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden wesentlichen Merkmale eines Too Big To Fail (TBTF) Regimes diskutiert. Hierunter wird ein politisches Umfeld verstanden, in dem grosse, systemrelevante Finanzinstitute durch staatliche Massnahmen vor der Insolvenz gerettet werden. Das TBTF Regime rechtfertigt sich...

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Culture-based rejection of taboo-infringing imports

Brice, William D.; Chu, Edward; Brice, Anastasiya - In: International Journal of Management and Economics 53 (2017) 3, pp. 67-81

This empirical study analyzes the cultural basis of the United States market response to imported Spanish products that seem to violate strongly-held cultural taboos. Survey responses were obtained from students in two contrasting majors, Art and Business, in two distinct cities and...

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Does the fiscal theory of the price level explain US postwar behaviour?

Le, Vo Phuong Mai; Meenagh, David; Minford, Patrick; … - 2024

We implement a quantitative empirical test of the fiscal theory of the price level (FTPL) model via indirect inference, comparing it to a standard New Keynesian model. The FTPL alternative creates a serious instability problem because it triggers a 'doom loop'in which inflation pushes up...

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Prediction sets and conformal inference with censored outcomes

Liu, Weiguang; de Paula, Áureo; Tamer, Elie T. - 2025

Given data on a scalar random variable 𝑌, a prediction set for 𝑌 with miscoverage level 𝛼 is a set of values for 𝑌 that contains a randomly drawn 𝑌 with probability 1 - 𝛼, where 𝛼 ∈ (0, 1). Among all prediction sets that satisfy this coverage property, the oracle...

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Außenwirtschaft nach der Wahl: Eine Agenda für die neue Bundesregierung

Bickenbach, Frank; Bode, Eckhardt; Dohse, Dirk; Görg, … - 2025

-Binnenmarkt schafft Augenhöhe mit den USA und China. Gemeinsam hat die EU eine starke Marktmacht, die eingesetzt werden kann, um …, effektiv zu begegnen. USA: • Die angekündigten Importzölle auf europäische Waren würden die deutsche Automobilindustrie und … andere exportorientierte Sektoren treffen. Bei zusätzlichen Zöllen von 10% würden die deutschen Exporte in die USA …

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Dealing with global economic challenges: An agenda for the new federal government

Bickenbach, Frank; Bode, Eckhardt; Dohse, Dirk; Görg, … - 2025

compete on equal terms with the USA and China. Together, the EU has strong market power that can be used to counteract trade … in the EU. USA: • Trump's announced import tariffs on European goods would affect the German automotive industry and …-Binnenmarkt schafft Augenhöhe mit den USA und China. Gemeinsam hat die EU eine starke Marktmacht, die eingesetzt werden kann, um …

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