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Behind the scenes of the telecommunications miracle: An empirical analysis of the Indian market

Biancini, Sara - 2010

We analyze the demand and supply characteristics of the Indian telecommunications market, in order to assess the potential effectiveness of universal access policies in developing countries. We provide some empirical evidence on the supply and demand characteristics, using a small...

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Does school autonomy make sense everywhere? Panel estimates from PISA

Hanushek, Eric A.; Link, Susanne; Wößmann, Ludger - 2011

Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went in opposite directions over the past decade and because prior evidence is inconclusive. We suggest that autonomy may be conducive to student achievement in well-developed...

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How Do Bank Lending Rates and the Supply of Loans React to Shifts in Loan Demand in the U.K.?

Burgstaller, Johann; Scharler, Johann - 2009

This paper examines the pass-through from the market interest to the rate charged on bank loans using aggregate data for the U.K. Thereby, we explicitly disentangle credit supply and demand and allow the interest rate charged on loans to depend on the volume of loans. We find that, although...

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Implementing quotas in university admissions: An experimental analysis

Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; … - 2012

Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the performance of two mechanisms to implement such quotas in a lab experiment. The first mechanism is a simplified version of the mechanism currently employed by the German central...

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Ökonomische Herausforderungen der Altenpflegewirtschaft: Endbericht

Braeseke, Grit; Hernández, Jessica; Hofmann, Esther; … - 2015

Nachfrage nach Langzeitpflege und Betreuungsleistungen wächst unaufhaltsam, gleichzeitig aber gibt es finanzierungsseitige … Nachfrage nach unterschiedlichen pflegerischen Versorgungsformen wird darüber hinaus entwickelt. Zur Beurteilung der … wirtschaftlichen Situation der Pflegebranche insgesamt sind sowohl die Nachfrage- und Angebotstrends in der Vergangenheit (letzte 10 …

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Identifying supply and demand in the Hungarian corporate loan market

Sóvágó, Sándor - 2011

During the recent crisis bank lending to the non-financial corporate sector declined substantially in Hungary and this slump proceeds in the aftermath of the recession as well. However it is not evident whether it is a result of the slow recovery of the real economy (the lack of credit demand),...

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Studienplatzvergabe: die cleversten Bewerber kommen zum Zug

Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 16, pp. 198-202

Überlastete Universitätsverwaltungen und langwierige Nachrückverfahren sind die Folge der dezentralen Vergabe von Studienplätzen. Um die Studienplatzvergabe künftig schneller und einfacher abwickeln zu können, soll die Zentralstelle für die Vergabe von Studienplätzen (ZVS) die...

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Sollen Studienplätze zentral vergeben werden?: Fünf Fragen an Nadja Dwenger

Wittenberg, Erich; Dwenger, Nadja - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 16, pp. 199

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A Simple Model of Housing Rental and Ownership with Policy Simulations

Coleman, Andrew; Scobie, Grant M. - 2009

The housing market is both large and complex. This paper develops a simple model that captures the essential features of the supply and demand for housing, and which is used to evaluate the impact of a range of policy interventions. Increases in the stock of housing would reduce rents and house...

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Regional spillovers and spatial heterogeneity in matching workers and employers in Germany

Kosfeld, Reinhold - 2006

When job search takes place across labour markets, the standard flow approach to labour market analysis fails to uncover the effectiveness at which workers are matched to available jobs. A spatially augmented matching function is backed by a spatial search model with endogenous search intensity....

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