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Concrete shoes for competition: The effect of the German cement cartel on market price

Hüschelrath, Kai; Müller, Kathrin; Veith, Tobias - 2012

We use publicly available price data from the German cement industry to estimate the cartelinduced price increase. We apply two different comparator-based approaches - the 'before and-after' approach and the 'difference-in-differences' approach - and especially study the impact of various...

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Estimating damages from price-fixing: The value of transaction data

Hüschelrath, Kai; Müller, Kathrin; Veith, Tobias - 2012

We use a unique private data set of about 340,000 invoice positions from 36 smaller and larger customers of German cement producers to study the value of such transaction data for an estimation of cartel damages. In particular, we investigate, first, how structural break analysis can be used to...

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Wages, rents, unemployment, and the quality of life

Wrede, Matthias - 2012

Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a search-matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the willingness to pay for regional amenities and the regional quality of life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local amenities and disamenities. The results are compared...

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The impact of corporate taxes on investment: An explanatory empirical analysis for interested practitioners

Dreßler, Daniel - 2012

German multinationals' direct investments abroad and of foreign multinationals' investments in Germany from 1996 till 2008. A … corresponds to that of Germany. The impact of taxation on investments is negative. A ten percentage points higher corporate tax …

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Evaluating the link between attendance and performance in higher education - the role of classroom engagement dimensions

Buechele, Stefan - 2020

Does attendance matter? This question is not only the title of several research papers on this topic but has still not been answered conclusively yet. In general, studies find positive but mostly weak correlations between attendance and performance. However, due to technological changes in...

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Sector Concentration in Loan Portfolios and Economic Capital

Düllmann, Klaus; Masschelein, Nancy - 2006

The purpose of this paper is to measure the potential impact of business-sector concentration on economic capital for loan portfolios and to explore a tractable model for its measurement. The empirical part evaluates the increase in economic capital in a multi-factor asset value model for...

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The role of sickness in the evaluation of job search assistance and sanctions

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante...

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Management practices, workforce selection, and productivity

Bender, Stefan; Bloom, Nicholas; Card, David; Van … - 2016

and firm-level productivity in Germany. In our preferred TFP estimates only a small fraction of this correlation is … Bloom und van Reenen (2007) zeigen, besteht in Deutschland eine starke partielle Korrelation zwischen den Management … % des gemessenen Einflusses von Managementpraktiken auf die Produktivität im verarbeitenden Gewerbe in Deutschland. …

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Markup pricing and firm decisions

Finsinger, Jörg; Kraft, Kornelius - 1984

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On the importance of transport costs in international trade flows : an analysis of Europ., Japanese, and US exports to the Philippines

Langhammer, Rolf J. - 1985

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