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63: The Capitalization of Public Services and Amenities into Land Prices – Empirical Evidence from German Communities

Alexander Ebertz

62: The Impact of Thin-Capitalization Rules on External Debt Usage – A Propensity Score Matching Approach

Georg Wamser

61: Money Demand Stability and Inflation Prediction in the Four Largest EMU Countries

Kai Carstensen, Jan Hagen, Oliver Hossfeld and Abelardo Salazar Neaves

60: Measuring Forecast Uncertainty by Disagreement: The Missing Link

Kajal Lahiri and Xuguang Simon Sheng

59: Who Cares about Corporate Taxation? Asymmetric Tax Effects on Outbound FDI

Michael Overesch and Georg Wamser

58: Germany’s Continued Productivity Slump: An Industry Analysis

Theo Eicher and Thomas Strobel

57: Freedom of Choice in Macroeconomic Forecasting: An Illustration with German Industrial Production and Linear Models

Nikolay Robinzonov and Klaus Wohlrabe

56: Why is the share of women willing to work in East Germany larger than in West Germany? A logit model of extensive labour supply decision

Beate Henschel

55: Learning Trend Inflation – Can Signal Extraction Explain Survey Forecasts?

Steffen Henzel

54: Das grüne Paradoxon: Warum man das Angebot bei der Klimapolitik nicht vergessen darf

Hans-Werner Sinn

53: Changes in Human Capital: Implications for Productivity Growth in the Euro Area

Guido Schwerdt and Jarkko Turunen

52: Kurzfristige Wachstumseffekte von Naturkatastrophen

Michael Berlemann and Gerit Vogt

51: Group Reputations - An Experimental Foray

Steffen Huck and Gabriele K. Lünser

50: The Economics of Tracking and Non-Tracking

Volker Meier and Gabriela Schütz

49: Quality of Life in the Regions - Results for German Counties

Thiess Büttner and Alexander Ebertz

48: VAR Model Averaging for Multi-Step Forecasting

Johannes Mayr and Dirk Ulbricht

47: Micro Data at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research – The “Ifo Business Survey”, Usage and Access

Sascha Becker, Klaus Wohlrabe and Sascha O. Becker

46: Assessing the Forecast Properties of the CESifo World Economic Climate Indicator: Evidence for the Euro Area

Oliver Hülsewig, Johannes Mayr and Stéphane Sorbe

45: Reform der Gemeindefinanzen

Thiess Büttner

44: Mikrodaten im ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung: Bestand, Verwendung, Zugang

Klaus Abberger, Sascha Becker, Barbara Hofmann, Klaus Wohlrabe and Sascha O. Becker

43: Health and Wages - Panel data estimates considering selection and endogeneity

Robert Jäckle

42: Log versus level in VAR forecasting: 16 Million empirical answers - expect the unexpected

Johannes Mayr and Dirk Ulbricht

41: Lost in Transmission? Stock Market Impacts of the 2006 European Gas Crisis

Ulrich Oberndorfer, Dirk Ulbricht and Janina Ketterer

40: Forecasting Quarter-on-Quarter Changes of German GDP with Monthly Business Tendency Survey Results

Klaus Abberger

39: Forecaster Behaviour and Bias in Macroeconomic Forecasts

Roy Batchelor

38: Innovation and Adoption of Electronic Business Technologies

Kai Sülzle

37: German Inbound Investment, Corporate Tax Planning, and Thin-Capitalization Rules - A Difference-in-Differences Approach

Michael Overesch and Georg Wamser

36: The Efficiency of German Universities – Some Evidence from Non-Parametric and Parametric Methods

Gerhard Kempkes and Carsten Pohl

35: German Productivity - A Reassessment via the New Ifo Productivity Database

Andreas Kuhlmann

34: What is the X-Factor in the German Electricity Industry?

Andreas Kuhlmann

33: Dualism and cross-country growth regressions

Jonathan Temple and Ludger Wößmann

32: Transferable Ageing Provisions in Individual Health Insurance Contracts

Florian Baumann, Volker Meier and Martin Werding

31: Qualitative Business Surveys in Manufacturing and Industrial Production - What can be Learned from Industry Branch Results?

Klaus Abberger

30: Investigating the Cyclical Properties of World Trade

Monika Ruschinski

29: Time Limits in a Two-tier Unemployment Benefit Scheme under Involuntary Unemployment

Christian Holzner, Volker Meier and Martin Werding

28: Company Tax Coordination cum Tax Rate Competition in the European Union

Wolfgang Eggert and Andreas Haufler

27: Employment Effects of Innovation at the Firm Level

Stefan Lachenmaier and Horst Rottmann

26: Does Incorporation Matter? Quantifying the Welfare Loss of Non-Uniform Taxation across Sectors

Doina Radulescu, Michael Stimmelmayr and Doina Maria Radulescu

25: Fiscal Decentralization and Regional Disparity: A Panel Data Approach for OECD Countries

Christian Lessmann

24: Industry Structure and Productivity Growth: Panel Data Evidence for Germany from 1971–2000

Thomas Fuchs

23: Search Equilibrium, Production Parameters and Social Returns to Education: Theory and Estimation

Christian Holzner and Andrey Launov

22: Stable and Efficient Electronic Business Networks: Key Players and the Dilemma of Peripheral Firms

Kai Sülzle

21: The European Union’s Trade Potential after the Enlargement in 2004

Michaela Fuchs and Klaus Wohlrabe

20: Implementing a Dual Income Tax in Germany: Effects on Investment and Welfare

Doina Radulescu, Michael Stimmelmayr and Doina Maria Radulescu

19: Being on Sick Leave – Possible Explanations for Differences of Sick-leave Days Across Countries Privatization

Oliver Röhn Rigmar Osterkamp

18: Privatization Incentives – A Wage Bargaining Approach

Andreas Kuhlmann

17: Chancengleichheit im Schulsystem: Internationale deskriptive Evidenz und mögliche Bestimmungsfaktoren

Gabriela Schütz and Ludger Wößmann

16: Ursachenkomplexe der PISA-Ergebnisse: Untersuchungen auf Basis der internationalen Mikrodaten

Ludger Wößmann

15: Labour Market Institutions and Employment Thresholds. An International Comparison

Gebhard Flaig and Horst Rottmann

14: Bank Loan Supply and Monetary Policy Transmission in Germany: An Assessment Based on Matching Impulse Responses

Oliver Hülsewig, Eric Mayer and Timo Wollmershäuser

13: The Use of Qualitative Business Tendency Surveys for Forecasting Business Investment in Germany

Klaus Abberger

12: Korruption und Schattenwirtschaft

Marcel Thum

11: Qualitative Business Surveys and the Assessment of Employment A Case Study for Germany

Klaus Abberger

10: Forecasting Inflation via Experimental Stock Markets Some Results from Pilot Markets

Michael Berlemann and Forrest Nelson

9: An Alternative to the Carlson-Parkin Method for the Quantification of Qualitative Inflation Expectations: Evidence from the Ifo World Economic Survey

Steffen Henzel and Timo Wollmershäuser

8: Computers and Student Learning: Bivariate and Multivariate Evidence on the Availability and Use of Computers at Home and at School

Thomas Fuchs and Ludger Wößmann

7: Survivor Benefits and the Gender Tax-Gap in Public Pension Schemes Work Incentives and Options for Reform

Martin Werding

6: Search Frictions, Credit Constraints and Firm Financed General Training

Christian Holzner

5: Duopolistic Competition between Independent and Collaborative Business-to-Business Marketplaces

Kai Sülzle

4: Location Choice and Employment Decisions: A Comparison of German and Swedish Multinationals

Sascha Becker, Karolina Ekholm, Robert Jäckle, Marc-Andreas Muendler and Sascha O. Becker

3: New Composite Leading Indicators for Hungary and Poland

Harm Bandholz

2: Contests with Size Effects

Wolfgang Eggert and Martin Kolmar

1: Does Educational Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-in-Differences Evidence across Countries

Eric Hanushek and Ludger Wößmann