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Is there a bubble in the Chinese housing market?

Dreger, Christian; Zhang, Yanqun - 2010

For many analysts, the Chinese economy is spurred by a bubble in the housing market, probably driven by the fiscal stimulus package and massive credit expansion, with possible adverse effects to the real economy. To get insights into the size of the bubble, the house price evolution is...

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Sovereign bond yield spreads: a time-varying coefficient approach

Bernoth, Kerstin; Erdogan, Burcu - 2010

We study the determinants of sovereign bond yield spreads across 10 EMU countries between Q1/1999 and Q1/2010. We apply a semiparametric time-varying coefficient model to identify, to what extent an observed change in the yield spread is due to a shift in macroeconomic fundamentals or due to...

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Competition in the Turkish mobile telecommunications market: Price elasticities and network substitution

Haucap, Justus; Heimeshoff, Ulrich; Karaçuka, Mehmet - 2010

- and long-run elasticities are calculated, yielding a long-run price elasticity of -0.72 for the post-paid market and of -0 ….33 for the pre-paid market. The short-run price elasticity is estimated to be -0.36 for the post-paid market and -0.20 for …

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The influence of international dispersed vs. home-based R&D on innovation performance

Peters, Bettina; Schmiele, Anja - 2010

Recent years have shown a surge of firms globalising their innovation activities in order to gain from international knowledge. This paper evaluates this strategy by investigating whether firms with international R&D are more innovative than firms doing R&D only in their home country. One main...

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Enterprise software and service innovation: Standardization versus customization

Engelstätter, Benjamin; Sarbu, Miruna - 2010

This paper analyzes the relationship between service innovation and different types of enterprise software systems, i.e. standardized enterprise software designed to fit one certain business sector and enterprise software specifically customized for a single firm. Using firm-level data of a...

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Investment impact of tax loss treatment: Empirical insights from a panel of multinationals

Dreßler, Daniel; Overesch, Michael - 2010

carryforwards resulting from losses in the past affect the tax rate-elasticity of current investment decisions. The empirical … effects of tax loss treatment can be expected. First, firms make their investment decisions in the face of potential future … losses. Then, the various types of conceivable loss offset provisions affect investment decisions. Secondly, existing loss …

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Explaining the persisting mathematics test score gap between boys and girls

Sprietsma, Maresa - 2010

This paper provides evidence on the sources of the persisting mathematics test score gap between boys and girls. In particular, we investigate the role of the share of female mathematics teachers in secondary school and of pupils self-confidence and extrinsic motivation in mathematics. We find...

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German male income volatility 1984 to 2008

Bartels, Charlotte; Bönke, Timm - 2010

Deploying data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) we analyze the variability of individual earnings and equivalent household income. Permanent and transitory variances of male income over the period 1984-2008 are estimated for Old German Laender in order to determine their importance...

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Strategic or status quo-preserving business exit: (how) do CEO turnover and succession matter?

Decker, Carolin; Bresser, Rudi K. F.; Mellewigt, Thomas - 2010

Business exit has implications for a firm's corporate strategy. Two types of exit events are distinguished: those that involve strategic change and those that are status quo-preserving. This study investigates the impact of CEO turnover and succession on strategic versus status quo-preserving...

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The (in)stability of money demand in the Euro area

Nautz, Dieter; Rondorf, Ulrike - 2010

instability of euro area money demand. Our results obtained from panel estimation indicate that the observed instability of …

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