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Tax progression: International and intertemporal comparison using LIS data

Pogorelskiy, Kirill; Seidl, Christian; Traub, Stefan - 2010

The conventional approach to comparing tax progression (using local measures, global measures or dominance relations for first moment distribution functions) often lacks applicability to the real world: local measures of tax progression have the disadvantage of ignoring the income distribution...

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Long-horizon consumption risk and the cross-section of returns: New tests and international evidence

Grammig, Joachim G.; Schrimpf, Andreas; Schuppli, Michael - 2009

This paper investigates whether measuring consumption risk over long horizons can improve the empirical performance of the Consumption CAPM for size and value premia in international stock markets (US, UK, and Germany). In order to account for commonalities in size and book-tomarket sorted...

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The economic crisis and medical care usage

Lusardi, Annamaria; Schneider, Daniel; Tufano, Peter - 2010

We use a unique, nationally representative cross-national dataset to document the reduction in individuals' usage of routine non-emergency medical care in the midst of the economic crisis. A substantially larger fraction of Americans have reduced medical care than have individuals in Great...

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Global yield curve dynamics and interactions: A dynamic Nelson-Siegel approach

Diebold, Francis X.; Li, Canlin; Yue, Vivian Z. - 2007

The popular Nelson-Siegel (1987) yield curve is routinely fit to cross sections of intra-country bond yields, and Diebold and Li (2006) have recently proposed a dynamized version. In this paper we extend Diebold-Li to a global context, modeling a potentially large set of country yield curves in...

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Case management: Anglo-amerikanische Konzepte und ihre Anwendbarkeit im Rahmen der bundesdeutschen Krankenversorgung

Ewers, Michael - 1996

Entwicklung sowie die aktuelle Anwendung und Diskussion der Methode in den USA, Großbritannien und Deutschland nachgezeichnet … Sozial- und Gesundheitswesens setzen die gesundheitspolitischen Akteure in Deutschland unter erheblichen Innovations- und …

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Distinguishing between long-range dependence and deterministic trends

Sibbertsen, Philipp; Venetis, Ioannis - 2003

We provide a method for distinguishing long-range dependence from deterministic trends such as structural breaks. The method is based on the comparison of standard log-periodogram regression estimation of the memory parameter with its tapered counterpart. The difference of these estimators...

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Verwaltungsbedingter Zeitaufwand für die Umsetzung von Gründungsvorhaben: Ein internationaler Vergleich zwischen Frankreich, Großbritannien, den Niederlanden, Österreich, den Verei...

Schröer, Evelyn; Holz, Michael - 2000

Umsetzung von Gründungsvorhaben in Deutschland im internationalen Vergleich auf den hinteren Plätzen angesiedelt wurde, konnten … jedoch entkräftet werden. Weitere Verbesserungen, nicht nur in Deutschland, könnten durch als Informations- und … verfahrenstechnischen Empfehlungen der Europäischen Kommission besteht in Deutschland weiterer Nachholbedarf. …

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The impact of household capital income on income inequality: A factor decomposition analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA

Fräßdorf, Anna; Grabka, Markus M.; Schwarze, Johannes - 2008

SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (1982) is applied … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …

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Interaction between Supply and Demand Shocks in Production and Employment

den Butter, F.A.G.; Koopman, S.J. - 1997

A major aim of recent empirical modelling of the business cycle isto identify the relative importance of aggregate supply and demandshocks. Supply or technology shocks are associated with permanent(structural) effects on economic activity whereas demand shocks arerelated to temporary (cyclical)...

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Unobserved Heterogeneity and Risk in Wage Variance: Does Schooling provide Earnings Insurance?

Mazza, Jacopo; van Ophem, Hans; Hartog, Joop - 2011

We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We replicate the original study on US men and extend to US women, UK men and German men. Most original results are not robust. A college education cannot universally be considered an...

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