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The Economics of Regional Demarcation in Banking

Raab, Simone; Welzel, Peter - 2010

Cooperation among savings and cooperative banks was criticized by the European Commission because of potentially anti-competitive effects. In an industrial economics model of banks taking deposits and giving loans we look at regional demarcation as one of such cooperative practices. There are...

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Entwicklung des integrierten Mikrosimulationsmodells EITDsim

Struch, Georg - 2012

Dieser Beitrag dokumentiert den Aufbau des Mikrosimulationsmodells EITDsim. EITDsim kann zur empirischen (ex ante) Evaluation von steuer- und finanzpolitischen Fragestellungen, insbesondere von (potentiellen) Steuerreformen, verwendet werden. Dafür kombiniert EITDsim auf Basis des erweiterten...

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Determinants of Lifetime Unemployment. A Micro Data Analysis with Censored Quantile Regressions

Schmillen, Achim; Möller, Joachim - 2010

The empirical literature on unemployment almost exclusively focuses on the duration of distinct unemployment spells. In contrast, we use a large German administrative micro data set for the time span 1975-2004 to investigate individual lifetime unemployment (defined as the total length of all...

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The Effect of University Openings on Local Human Capital Formation: Difference-in-Differences Evidence from Germany

Siegler, Benedikt - 2012

Between 1960 and 1979, 93 new universities opened in Germany. Using this large tertiary education expansion, I estimate the effect of a university opening on the probability of obtaining a university degree in the local population. I exploit the geographical variation in local university access...

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Works Councils and Separations: Voice, Monopoly, and Insurance Effects

Hirsch, Boris; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - 2009

Using a large linked employer-employee data set for Germany, we find that the existence of a works council is associated with a lower separation rate to employment, in particular for men and workers with low tenure. While works council monopoly effects show up in all specifications, clear voice...

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Uncertainty of Governmental Relief and the Crowding out of Insurance

Raschky, Paul A.; Schwarze, Reimund; Schwindt, Manijeh; … - 2010

This paper discusses the problem of crowding out of insurance by co-existing governmental relief programs - so-called 'charity hazard' - in a context of different institutional schemes of governmental relief in Austria and Germany. We test empirically whether an assured partial relief scheme (as...

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Testing Enforcement Strategies in the Field: Legal Threat, Moral Appeal and Social Information

Fellner, Gerlinde; Sausgruber, Rupert; Traxler, Christian - 2009

We run a large-scale natural field experiment to evaluate alternative strategies to enforce compliance with the law. The experiment varies the text of mailings sent to potential evaders of TV license fees. We find a strong alert effect of mailings, leading to a substantial increase in...

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Natural Hazards Insurance in Europe ? Tailored Responses to Climate Change Needed

Schwarze, Reimund; Wagner, Gert G. - 2009

This paper provides an overview on the existing systems of natural hazards insurance in Europe, their structural characteristics and peculiarities. It also discusses the difficulties of an adaptation of these systems to climate change and a growing number of natural disasters. Using the case of...

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Cost Drivers of Operation Charges and Variation over Time: An Analysis Based on Semiparametric SUR Models

Brunauer, Wolfgang A.; Keiler, Sebastian; Lang, Stefan - 2010

Although building operating charges have turned out to be a major determinant of profitability for real estate investments, there is a noticeable lack of reports or studies that analyze these costs with state-of-the-art statistical techniques. Specifically, past studies usually assume linear...

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Biokraftstoffe: Königsweg für Klimaschutz, profitable Landwirtschaft und sichere Energieversorgung?

Henke, Jan Michael; Klepper, Gernot - 2006

Biokraftstoffen die heimische Agrarwirtschaft unterstützen. In Deutschland wird bisher insbesondere Biodiesel produziert, der vor … Mineralölsteuerbefreiung von Biokraftstoffen in Deutschland. Diese Förderung führte zu einem Ausgleich des Kostennachteils von Biokraftstoffen … einzusparen. Die Treibhausgasvermeidungskosten beim Einsatz von in Deutschland produzierten Biokraftstoffen liegen zwischen 150 …

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