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The ongoing process of climate change goes along with a higher frequency and/or severity of droughts. While the short-term growth consequences of droughts are comparatively well examined, little research has yet been devoted to the question whether and how droughts affect medium and long-term...
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Empirical studies analyzing the determinants of U.S. presidential popularity have delivered quite inconclusive results concerning the role of economic variables by assuming linear relationships. We employ penalized spline smoothing in the context of semi-parametric additive mixed models and...
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In this paper we study the effect of institutional reform on the decision to hold risky assets at the extensive and the intensive margin. We therefore make use of the natural experiment of German Division and Reunification and, based on savings bank customer data from German savings banks, study...
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This paper studies the effect of institutional reform on the decision to hold risky assets at the example of the natural experiment of German Division and Reunification. We present empirical evidence indicating that even 16 years after German Reunification risky portfolio choice and composition...
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Die mittelständische Firma gilt seit jeher als Erfolgsmodell der deutschen Wirtschaft. So wird dem deutschen Mittelstand eine entscheidende Rolle im Rahmen des deutschen Wirtschaftswunders nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, bei der Bewältigung der deutschen Wiedervereinigung und der weltweiten...
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Nach einhelliger Meinung zeichnen sich mittelständische Unternehmen vor allem dadurch aus, dass hier Eigentum und Leitung der Unternehmen in einer Hand liegen. Aber in der empirischen Mittelstandsforschung sowie beinahe allen Berichten, die sich mit der tatsächlichen Größe und der Bedeutung...
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As the ongoing process of global warming goes along with changes in both mean precipitation and precipitation extremes, the scientific interest in the effects of rainfall on economic prosperity has recently grown significantly. However, the few existing empirical studies of short-run growth...
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As the ongoing process of global warming goes along with changes in both mean precipitation and precipitation extremes, the scientific interest in the effects of rainfall on economic prosperity has recently grown significantly. However, the few existing empirical studies of short-run growth...
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Zusammenfassung Das vorliegende Papier beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, unter welchen Umstanden Zentralbanken Geschäftsbanken Liquiditätshilfen im Sinne eines Lenders of Last Resort anbieten. Wir argumentieren, dass LOLR Transaktionen vorrangig durch das makroökonomische Stabilisierungsziele...
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