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Output gaps in European Monetary Union: New insights from input augmentation in the technological progress
Dimitz, Maria Antoinette - 2001
Output gaps for ten European countries and the USA are estimated based on a CES production function with input augmentation in the technological progress. The substitution parameter is estimated from the coefficients of the labor and capital demand functions. The estimation is done using...
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Sectoral Technology and Structural Transformation
Herrendorf, Berthold; Herrington, Christopher; … - 2012
This paper assesses the importance for structural transformation of three features of sectoral technology: labor-augmenting technological progress, capital intensity, and substitutability between capital and labor. We estimate CES production functions for agriculture, manufacturing, and services...
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Who Wants Political Integration? Evidence from the Swedish EU-Membership Referendum
Vlachos, Jonas - 2003
The regional voting pattern of the Swedish EU-membership referendum is analyzed to determine voters' preferences over two fiscal regimes: an autonomous Sweden, or Sweden as part of the EU. A major difference between these regimes is that autonomy gives greater national discretion to handle...
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Vom Ende der Diktaturen zum Binnenmarkt 1993: Griechenland, Portugal und Spanien auf dem Weg zurück nach Europa
Merkel, Wolfgang - In: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte: Beilage zu "Das Parlament" (1990) 51, pp. 3-14
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Monopolistic Competition and Costs in the Health Care Sector
Kumpmann, Ingmar - 2009
Competition among health insurers is widely considered to be a means of enhancing efficiency and containing costs in … is able to counterbalance the strong position of physicians and to achieve lower costs. … MonopolKrankenversicherung kann die starke Verhandlungsposition der Ärzte ausgleichen und niedrigere Kosten durchsetzen. …
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Strong hysteresis due to age effects
Chen, Yu-Fu - 2009
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Unter welchen Bedingungen fördert die Riester-Förderung? Eine theoretische Analyse unter simultaner Einbeziehung von Kosten- und Steuereffekten
Stahl, Silvana; Stahl, Stefan; Kasch, Philipp - 2012
Vorteilhaftigkeit bezogen sich in der Regel auf Teilaspekte: entweder nur die Kosten- oder nur die Steuereffekte wurden untersucht … geben, wobei Kosten- und Steuereffekte gleichermaßen berücksichtigt werden. Dabei steht nicht die Frage im Vordergrund …
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Costs and quality of life in multiple sclerosis: A cross-sectional study in the USA
Kobelt, Gisela; Berg, Jenny; Atherley, Debbie; … - 2004
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The cost of phasing out nuclear power: A quantitative assessment of alternative scenarios for Germany
Böhringer, Christoph; Hoffmann, Tim; Vögele, Stefan - 2000
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Exchange rate transmission and export activity at the firm level
Lassmann, Andrea - 2013
-level export activity. Using precise survey data from a sample of Swiss firms, I find that an appreciation increases the … probability of a decrease in firm-level costs, prices and profits. Exchange rate movements are passed through to import prices … degree of international exposure. The likelihood of adjustments is increasing in firm-level export share in total turnover. I …
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