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Pricing and regulation in multi-sided markets : implications for payment card networks and smart metering
Uhlenbrock, Jens - 2011
This thesis strives to offer new insights in two main areas. First, in the well-researched domain of payment cards chapters 2 and 3 investigate an aspect that has hitherto been scantly examined, namely, the fact that merchant usage fees differ substantially among merchant sectors. Additionally,...
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Essays on network industries : privatization, regulation, and productivity measurement
Kuhlmann, Andreas - 2007
This study was prepared by Andreas Kuhlmann, while he was working with the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in September 2006 and was accepted as a Ph.D. thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich. The subject of this study is the analysis of network...
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Economic perspectives on the implications of public child care and schooling for educational outcomes in childhood and adult life
Zierow, Larissa - 2017
Child care and education are important inputs in the human capital production function. The research of Nobel prize winner James Heckman shows that skills are built from the early childhood on and increase the returns of later educational inputs, in short: skill begets skill. Therefore, it is...
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Three essays on capital structure and structured finance
Neukomm, Gabriel H. - 2012
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Corporate Governance und Unternehmenserfolg : eine empirische Analyse des Zusammenhangs zwischen den Führungs-, Kontroll- und Anreizstrukturen und der Geschäftsentwicklung deutsche...
Steinbrecher, Johannes - 2016
Das internationale Bankensystem stand in den vergangenen Jahren im Fokus des öffentlichen Interesses. Bei der Diskussion möglicher Optionen zur Verbesserung der Finanzsystemstabilität rückt zunehmend die Corporate Governance in Banken in den Fokus. Der vorliegende Forschungsbericht widmet...
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Evolution of gender wage gap in Peru, 1997-2000
Longnecker, Michael (contributor);  … - 2007
gender. The wage differential due to gender, and not to differences in labor characteristics, is called discrimination. The … goal of this project is to estimate the evolution of the wages differentials and wage discrimination between males and … education and more experience will be rewarded at the same rate at any combination. The wage discrimination estimation shows …
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Labor market issues for administrators: evidence from public schools in Texas
Deere, Donald (contributor); Ureta, Manuelita (contributor) - 2007
This dissertation examines three labor market issues regarding public schooladministrators in Texas using personnel records from the 1994-95 school year untilthe 2003-04 school year. The first essay explores promotion rates of men and womento school principal, a position that requires...
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Diskriminering p°a svensk arbetsmarknad : en analys av löneskillnader mellan kvinnor och män
Löfström, Åsa - 1989
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