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Peer Effects in European Primary Schools: Evidence from PIRLS

Ammermüller, Andreas; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2006

We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...

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Wettbewerb der Steuersysteme in Europa - eine vergleichende Analyse am Beispiel der Region Oberrheingraben unter Einbeziehung aktueller Reformvorschläge

Eckerle, Tobias H. - 1997

Kapitalgesellschaften am stärksten belastet. Bezieht man die Gesellschafter mit ein, so ist die Belastung in Frankreich am höchsten. Die … in Frankreich zur Erfüllung der Euro-Kriterien bewirkt genau das Gegenteil. Mit Blick auf die Region Oberrheingraben … der Region überall weitgehend das gleiche Niveau aufweist. Dagegen können in Frankreich und der Schweiz je nach Gemeinde …

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The impact of monetary instruments on shock absorption in EU-Countries

Müller, Claudia; Buscher, Herbert S. - 1999

The main characteristic of the implementation of the European Monetary Union (EMU) is the transition from various national currencies to the Euro, the common European currency. A final fixing of the individual bilateral exchange rates of all European countries involved in the Monetary Union...

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Labour mobility - an adjustment mechanism in Euroland? Empirical evidence for Western Germany, France and Italy

Puhani, Patrick A. - 1999

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate whether labour mobility is likely to act as a sufficient adjustment mechanism in the face of asymmetric shocks in Euroland. To this end, we estimate the elasticity of migration with respect to changes in unemployment and income on the basis of regional...

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The effective average tax burden in the European Union and the USA: a computer-based calculation and comparison with the model of the European tax analyzer

Jacobs, Otto H.; Spengel, Christoph - 1999

In this paper we present a computer-based model (so-called European Tax Analyzer) for the international computation and comparison of company tax burdens. The methodology follows the forward-looking concepts for the measurement of effective average tax rates (EATR) on the basis of a model-firm....

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International spillovers and feedback: Modelling in a disequilibrium framework

Winker, Peter; Beck, Martin - 2000

German unifikation hit the West German economy in a prosperous and appeared as a huge demand shock at least for the first few quarters. This combination resulted in a major increase of imports from the main trading partners of West Germany, which may have helped to cushion recessionary trends...

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Corporate monitoring by blockholders in Europe: empirical evidence of managerial disciplining in Belgium, France, Germany, and the UK

Dherment-Ferere, Isabelle; Köke, Jens; Renneboog, Luc - 2001

This study examines managerial disciplining in poorly performing firms using large panels for Belgian, French, German and UK firms. We consider the monitoring role of large blockholders, the market for share blocks, creditors, and non-executive directors. Board restructuring is correlated to...

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Modeling Asset Returns: A Comparison of Theoretical and Empirical Models

Schröder, Michael; Lüders, Erik - 2004

This paper presents and compares several time-series models for returns of broadbased stock indices. These models nest a nonlinear asymmetric GARCH (NGARCH) model as a special case. Some of these models are empirically motivated ad-hoc specifications others are derived from a representative...

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International Stock Return Predictability Under Model Uncertainty

Schrimpf, Andreas - 2008

This paper examines return predictability when the investor is uncertain about the right state variables. A novel feature of the model averaging approach used in this paper is to account for finite-sample bias of the coefficients in the predictive regressions. Drawing on an extensive...

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Exchange rate pass-through to consumer prices: a European perspective

Schröder, Michael; Hüfner, Felix P. - 2002

We study the pass-through of exchange rate changes to consumer prices for the euro area by estimating vector error correction models for Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain. Using the weights of the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) we compute a weighted average of the...

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