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Does it really get better with age? Life-cycle patterns of confidence in Germany

Pannenberg, Markus; Friehe, Tim - 2019

This paper investigates if and how confidence at the individual level changes over the course of a life. We provide age … profiles of a novel continuous confidence measure and the probability of overconfidence, conditioning on personality traits … gross wage distribution as our measure of confidence. We find that both the level of confidence and the overconfidence …

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The Assessment of COVID-19 Effect on European Union Industrial Sector

Tudorache, Maria-Daniela; Nae, Maria Tamara; Jianu, Ionut - 2021

In this paper, we estimated the impact of COVID-19 shock on the industrial production and on the confidence in industry … confidence index. The outlooks are still exposed to uncertainty, but these have been improved in the latest months. …

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Does austerity pay off?

Born, Benjamin; Müller, Gernot; Pfeifer, Johannes - 2014

market confidence, bringing about a reduction in yield spreads? We employ a new panel data set which contains sovereign yield …

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Determinants of In-Court Settlements: Empirical Evidence from a German Trial Court

Berlemann, Michael; Christmann, Robin - 2016

Because verdicts are typically the more costly resolution of legal disputes, most governments are interested in high settlement rates. In this paper, we use a unique dataset of 860 case records from a German trial court to explore which factors have a significant impact on the decision to settle...

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Does a longer commuting time increase the probability of being victim of urban violence? The evidence from Brazilian metropolitan regions

Neto, Raul Silveira; Moura, Klebson - 2015

Empirical evidence about the influence of exposure to public spaces on victimization strongly support the routine activities theory but, maybe reflecting the difficult of available data, specific evidence about the influence of the commuting on probability of victimization is not abundant. As...

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Strategic Registration of Voters: the Chilean Case

De Luca, Giacomo - 2008

In this paper we have investigated how the employment relationship, if it implies transfer of rents, may allow employers to control the voting behavior of their workers and lead to a strategic registration of voters. This is feasible when individual voting behavior is observable, as in open...

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Antitrust Failures: The Internet Giants

Taschdjian, Martin; Alleman, James - 2018

Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, as well as Twitter – the FANG companies – have transformed society with both positive and negative effects. Soaring consumer access to information, news, social networks, and entertainment has been stimulated by the ever-more ubiquitous and falling...

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Antitrust for Internet Giants

Taschdjian, Martin; Alleman, James - 2018

There can be no doubt that the FANG companies – Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, as well as Twitter – have transformed society since their emergence. Like all social transformations, the changes wrought by their services have had ripple effects that are both positive and negative. On...

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The labor market consequences of political imprisonment in the former GDR

Gürtzgen, Nicole; Hank, Karsten - 2015

Barely any quantitative research has been devoted yet to the labor market consequences of incarceration for political offenses, which seems particularly unfortunate against the background of Europe's history of state persecution in the 20th century. Drawing on the example of the former German...

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Criminality spread: A "boomerang effect" of public transport improvements?

Bacares, Carlos Augusto Olarte - 2013

This paper aims to reveal the importance of public transport policies in the evolution of crime configuration and so, the vital responsibility of urban transports and criminality in social sprawl, entrepreneurial configuration and social structure on a city. Public transport policies have an...

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