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Tax Policy and CO2 Emissions – An Econometric Analysis of the German Automobile Market

Vance, Colin; Mehlin, Markus - 2009

car. Using panel data on new-car registrations in Germany, Europe's largest car market, the present paper addresses this …

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"Der Noth gehorchend, nicht dem eignen Trieb" - Nascent Necessity and Opportunity Entrepreneurs in Germany: Evidence from the Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM)

Wagner, Joachim - 2005

Using a large recent representative sample of the adult German population this paper demonstrates that nascent necessity and nascent opportunity entrepreneurs are different with respect to some of the characteristics and attitudes considered to be important for becoming a nascent entrepreneur,...

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Exports and productivity in Germany

Wagner, Joachim - 2007

presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on …. Results for West Germany support the hypothesis that the productivity differential between exporters and nonexporters is at …

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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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Subsidies and exports in Germany first evidence from enterprise panel data

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Wagner, Joachim - 2009

We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate … an impact of subsidies on the share of exports in total sales in West Germany but no evidence in East Germany. …

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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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Comparing public attitudes towards providing for the livelihood of the elderly in two aging societies: Germany and Japan

Hayo, Bernd; Ono, Hiroyuki - 2007

Germany and Japan. Applying an ordered logit model to individual data from representative public opinion surveys, it is … inclination towards a government-based pension system in the case of Japan but positively in Germany. Other significant influences …

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Determinants of Avoidable Deaths from Ischaemic Heart Diseases in East and West Germany

Schwierz, Christoph; Wübker, Ansgar - 2009

ischaemic heart diseases (IHD) inWest and East Germany from 1996 to 2004. Our main result reveals that the number of … catch-up process in the number of IC facilities provided relative to West Germany. …

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