This paper examines the impact of financial and socio-economic factors on repertoire decisions of the grant-aided, non-profit theatre sector in England using cross-sectional regression analysis for the seasons 1996/97 to 1998/99. The dependent variable, a conventionality index, a variant of the...

This study empirically examines the relationship between public funding and repertoire decisions in the German public theatre sector. A cross-sectional econometric model is constructed to estimate the effects for a sample of 127 public theatres covering the theatre season 1998/1999 using a...

This paper empirically compares sticky-price and sticky-information Phillips curves considering inflation dynamics in six countries (US, UK, Germany, France, Canada, and Japan). We evaluate the models‘ abilities to match empirical second moments of inflation. Under baseline calibrations, the...

While standard theory assumes rational, optimizing agents under full information, the latter is rarely found in reality. Information has to be acquired and processed—both involving costs. In rational-inattentiveness models agents update their information set only when the benefit outweighs the...

Über den aktuellen Stand der Krise in Europa wird viel geschrieben und noch mehr spekuliert. Doch wie groß ist die Gefahr, dass Volkswirtschaften auf externe finanzielle Hilfe angewiesen sind? Eine aggregierte Messgröße, die dieses Risiko basierend auf einer ökonometrischen Schätzung...

Wirtschaft und Sozialsysteme in Deutschland zeigten sich Anfang des Jahres 2003 in einem sehr schlechten Zustand. Auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt stieg die Zahl der Arbeitslosen auf über 4 Millionen Menschen. Das Bruttoinlandsprodukt wuchs seit dem Herbst des Jahres 2000 real kaum noch. Die...

The increasing use of food commodities for biofuel production has substantial impact on prices and quantities of these and other food commodities. It is therefore likely that this trend also intensifies the competition for arable land. However, evidence for this hypothesis is generated by...