This paper introduces staggered right-to-manage wage bargaining into a New Keynesian business cycle model. Our key result is that the model is able to generate persistent responses in output, inflation, and total labor input to both neutral technology and monetary policy shocks. Furthermore, we...

We find that the protective effect of years of schooling on the BMI of European females is non negligible, but smaller than the one recently found for the US. By using individual standardized cognitive tests instead of years of schooling as the measure of education we show that the current focus...

Verlagsinfo: Alle sprechen von Netzpolitik, aber was ist das eigentlich? Und wie lässt sich elektronische Verwaltung oder E-Government von Politik im und fürs Netz unterscheiden? Dieser Band soll Antworten auf diese aktuellen Fragen geben. Er beginnt mit einer allgemeinen Einführung in den...

Ever since the pioneering work of Rottenberg (1956) and Neale (1964), the uncertainty of outcome hypothesis (UOH) has played a major role in the economic analysis of professional sport leagues. However, decades f empirical research have not been successful in establishing clear evidence for the...