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Minority positions in the German council of economic experts : a political economic analysis
Potrafke, Niklas - 2013
I investigate minority votes in the German Council of Economic Experts. The dataset contains information on the voting … behavior of the council members over the period 1971-2011. The results show that the best predictor of minority voting is being … against the majority opinion of the German Council of Economic Experts. This voting pattern indicates that the channel of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009732996
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Investment, income, and incompleteness
Bick, Björn; Kraft, Holger; Munk, Claus - 2009
The utility-maximizing consumption and investment strategy of an individual investor receiving an unspanned labor income stream seems impossible to find in closed form and very difficult to find using numerical solution techniques. We suggest an easy procedure for finding a specific, simple, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003838456
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Theories and empirics of economic growth
Cinyabuguma, Matthias M. - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003384471
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Comparing the effectiveness of employment subsidies
Brown, Alessio J. G. (contributor);  … - 2006
This paper provides a theoretical and quantitative analysis of various types of wellknown employment subsidies. Two important questions are addressed: (i) How should employment subsidies be targeted? (ii) How large should the subsidies be? We consider measures involving targeting workers with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003384689
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Welfare and generational equity in sustainable unfunded pension systems
Auerbach, Alan J.; Lee, Ronald Demos - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003803995
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Comparing the effectiveness of employment subsidies
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2010 - October 2010 (this final and revised version)
This paper provides a theoretical and quantitative analysis of various types of wellknown employment subsidies. Two important questions are addressed: (i) How should employment subsidies be targeted? (ii) How large should the subsidies be? We consider measures involving targeting workers with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451838
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Communication, decision-making and the optimal degree of transparency of monetary policy committees
Weber, Anke (contributor) - 2008
shown that communication in the form of voting records has the greatest effect on market participants' near term policy … strategies of committees including the question whether individual voting records should be published. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635036
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Allocation mechanisms : group bargaining and multi-unit auctions
Demidova, Ekaterina - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010237123
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Betriebliche Ausbildung als kollektives Phänomen
Niederalt, Michael - 2003
Das Ausbildungsgeschehen in Deutschland lässt sich als kollektive Handlung betrachten. Zur Überwindung des grundsätzlich vorliegenden Trittbrettfahrerproblems tragen Betriebe, die unabhängig von ihrem Fachkräftebedarf rentabel ausbilden können, einen maßgeblichen Anteil bei....
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