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Aid allocation through various official and private channels: need, merit and self-interest as motives of German donors

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2009

Previous literature largely ignores the heterogeneity of aid channels used by each single donor country. We estimate Tobit models to assess the relative importance of recipient need, recipient merit and self-interest of donors for various channels of official and private German aid across a...

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The amenity value of climate to German households

Rehdanz, Katrin; Maddison, David - 2004

This study uses the hedonic approach to measure the amenity value of climate in Germany. Unlike in earlier research … what theory would predict. Throughout Germany house prices are higher in areas with higher January temperatures, lower July … temperatures and lower January precipitation. In East Germany wages are higher in areas with higher January precipitation. The full …

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Is regional innovative activity path-dependent? An empirical analysis for Germany

Bode, Eckhardt - 2001

Based on a standard idea-based model of endogenous growth we test the hypothesis that regional innovative activity is path-dependent, and investigate the geographical scope of knowledge spillovers. Using data for West-German regions, two alternative indicators of the stock of knowledge are...

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Offshoring and firm performance: self-selection, effects on performance, or both?

Wagner, Joachim - 2009

what is often argued, therefore, we find no evidence for a negative causal effect of offshoring on employment in Germany or …

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Dialects, cultural Identity, and economic exchange

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2010

We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...

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Labor supply and child care choices in a rationed child care market

Wrohlich, Katharina - 2006

Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and private child care is only available at considerably higher cost. I use a …

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Higher productivity in importing German manufacturing firms: self-selection, learning from importing, or both?

Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2008

document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … for trading internationally are about the same in West and East Germany. Compared to firms that do not trade at all two …

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Exports and profitability: first evidence for German manufacturing firms

Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - 2008

Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It …

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Offshoring and firm performance: self-selection, effects on performance, or both?

Wagner, Joachim - 2009

what is often argued, therefore, we find no evidence for a negative causal effect of offshoring on employment in Germany or …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269578

Dialects, cultural identity, and economic exchange

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2010

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269659