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1111: Building the Minimum Wage: Germany's First Sectoral Minimum Wage and Its Impact on Wages in the Construction Industry

Pia Rattenhuber

1110: Modeling Storage and Demand Management in Electricity Distribution Grids

Andreas Schröder, Jan Siegmeier and Murk Creusen

1109: Regulated Expansion of Electricity Transmission Networks: The Effects of Fluctuating Demand and Wind Generation

Wolf-Peter Schill, Juan Rosellon and Jonas Egerer

1108: The Effect of Prenatal Stress on Birth Weight: Evidence from the al-Aqsa Intifada

Hani Mansour and Daniel Rees

1107: Volatility Patterns of CDS, Bond and Stock Markets before and during the Financial Crisis: Evidence from Major Financial Institutions

Ansgar Belke and Christian Gokus

1106: Current Account Imbalances in the Euro Area: Catching up or Competitiveness?

Ansgar Belke and Christian Dreger

1105: Beyond the Overall Economic Downturn: Evidence on Sector-Specific Effects of Violent Conflict from Indonesia

Marc Vothknecht and Sudarno Sumarto

1104: Correlation Neglect in Financial Decision-Making

Erik Eyster and Georg Weizsäcker

1103: Do Regions with Entrepreneurial Neighbors Perform Better?: A Spatial Econometric Approach for German Regions

Katharina Pijnenburg and Konstantin Kholodilin

1102: Mother's Autonomy and Child Welfare: A New Measure and Some New Evidence

Tanika Chakraborty and Prabal De

1101: Gender-Specific Occupational Segregation, Glass Ceiling Effects, and Earnings in Managerial Positions: Results of a Fixed Effects Model

Anne Busch and Elke Holst

1100: Personal Bankruptcy Law, Wealth and Entrepreneurship: Theory and Evidence from the Introduction of a "Fresh Start"

Frank Fossen

1099: Remittances and Gender: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence

Elke Holst, Andrea Schäfer and Mechthild Schrooten

1098: Self-Employment and Conflict in Colombia

Carlos Bozzoli, Tilman Brück and Nina Wald

1097: How Emission Certificate Allocations Distort Fossil Investments: The German Example

Michael Pahle, Lin Fan and Wolf-Peter Schill

1096: High-Skilled Immigration Policy in Europe

Martin Kahanec and Klaus Zimmermann

1095: An Expert Stakeholder's View on European Integration Challenges

Amelie Constant, Martin Kahanec and Klaus Zimmermann

1094: Does Gender Affect Funding Success at the Peer-to-Peer Credit Markets?: Evidence from the Largest German Lending Platform

Nataliya Barasinska and Dorothea Schäfer

1093: Perceptions, Expectations, and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Extreme Events

Tilman Brück, Fernanda Llussá and Jose Tavares

1092: Ethnische Vielfalt und Arbeitsmarkterfolg

Ulf Rinne, Simone Schüller and Klaus Zimmermann

1091: A Policy Agenda for Diversity and Minority Integration

Martin Kahanec and Klaus Zimmermann

1090: Ethnic Minorities in the European Union: An Overview

Martin Kahanec, Anzelika Zaiceva and Klaus Zimmermann

1089: Reservation Wages of First and Second Generation Migrants

Amelie Constant, Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Ulf Rinne and Klaus Zimmermann

1088: Economic Preferences and Attitudes of the Unemployed: Are Natives and Second Generation Migrants Alike?

Amelie Constant, Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Ulf Rinne and Klaus Zimmermann

1087: African Leaders: Their Education Abroad and FDI Flows

Amelie Constant and Bienvenue N. Tien

1086: Methodologies for Assessment of Building's Energy Efficiency and Conservation: A Policy-Maker View

Aleksandra Novikova

1085: Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity: Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?

Marco Caliendo, Frank Fossen and Alexander Kritikos

1084: Electric Vehicles in Imperfect Electricity Markets: A German Case Study

Wolf-Peter Schill

1083: Distributional and Welfare Effects of Germany's Year 2000 Tax Reform

Richard Ochmann

1082: Reinforcing EU Governance in Times of Crisis: The Commission Proposals and Beyond

Ansgar Belke

1081: Is There a Bubble in the Chinese Housing Market?

Christian Dreger and Yanqun Zhang

1080: Quoted Spreads and Trade Imbalance Dynamics in the European Treasury Bond Market

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Alessandro Girardi and Paolo Paesani

1079: Combating "Maritime Terrorism" off the Coast of Somalia

Anja Shortland and Marc Vothknecht

1078: Sovereign Bond Yield Spreads: A Time-Varying Coefficient Approach

Kerstin Bernoth and Burcu Erdogan

1077: The Weekly Structure of US Stock Prices

Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Luis Gil-Alana

1076: The Euro Area Crisis Management Framework: Consequences and Institutional Follow-Ups

Ansgar Belke

1075: The Dynamics of Global Crude Oil Production

Aleksandar Zaklan, Georg Zachmann and Anne Neumann

1074: Empirical Welfare Analysis in Random Utility Models of Labour Supply

André Decoster and Peter Haan

1073: Assets, Shocks, and Poverty Traps in Rural Mozambique

Lena Giesbert and Kati Schindler

1072: Who Does What in a Household after Genocide?: Evidence from Rwanda

Kati Schindler

1071: Cost Efficiency and Subsidization in German Local Public Bus Transit

Maria Nieswand and Matthias Walter

1070: US Disposable Personal Income and Housing Price Index: A Fractional Integration Analysis

Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Luis Gil-Alana

1069: A Lost Generation? Long Term Socioeconomic Outcomes in Orphans

Carlos Bozzoli

1068: Country Inequality Rankings and Conversion Schemes

Timm Bönke and Carsten Schröder

1067: COALMOD-World: A Model to Assess International Coal Markets until 2030

Clemens Haftendorn, Franziska Holz and Christian von Hirschhausen

1066: Forecasting Private Consumption by Consumer Surveys

Christian Dreger and Konstantin Kholodilin

1065: Entry Regulation and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Evidence from a German Natural Experiment

Davud Rostam-Afschar

1064: Money Demand and the Role of Monetary Indicators in Forecasting Euro Area Inflation

Christian Dreger and Juergen Wolters

1063: Gov-arrrgh-nance: Jolly Rogers and Dodgy Rulers

Olaf de Groot and Anja Shortland

1062: China's Overt Economic Rise and Latent Human Capital Investment: Achieving Milestones and Competing for the Top

Amelie Constant, Bienvenue N. Tien, Klaus Zimmermann and Jingzhou Meng

1061: Employment Effects of a Sectoral Minimum Wage in Germany: Semi-Parametric Estimations from Cross-Sectional Data

Kai-Uwe Müller

1060: Poverty in Germany: Statistical Inference and Decomposition

Timm Bönke and Carsten Schröder

1059: Conflict Experiences and Household Expectations on Recovery: Survey Evidence from Northern Uganda

Carlos Bozzoli, Tilman Brück and Tony Muhumuza

1058: Differential Income Taxation and Household Asset Allocation

Richard Ochmann

1057: Profitability of Pension Contributions: Evidence from Real-Life Employment Biographies

Carsten Schröder

1056: Confronting the Representative Consumer with Household-Size Heterogeneity

Christos Koulovatianos, Carsten Schröder and Ulrich Schmidt

1055: Social Networks, Job Search Methods and Reservation Wages: Evidence for Germany

Marco Caliendo, Ricarda Schmidl and Arne Uhlendorff

1054: The Weight of the Crisis: Evidence from Newborns in Argentina

Carlos Bozzoli and Climent Quintana-Domeque

1053: Key Players and Key Groups in Teams: A Network Approach Using Soccer Data

Sudipta Sarangi and Emre Unlu

1052: CO2 Highways for Europe: Modeling a Carbon Capture, Transport and Storage Infrastructure for Europe

Roman Mendelevitch, Johannes Herold, Pao-Yu Oei and Andreas Tissen

1051: Foreign Interventions and Abuse of Civilians during the Peruvian Civil War

David Fielding and Anja Shortland

1050: The Economics of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism: A Survey (Part II)

Friedrich Schneider, Tilman Brück and Daniel Meierrieks

1049: The Economics of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism: A Survey (Part I)

Friedrich Schneider, Tilman Brück and Daniel Meierrieks

1048: Respondent Driven Sampling

Matthias Schonlau and Elisabeth Liebau

1047: Age Effects and Heuristics in Decision Making

Tibor Besedes, Cary Deck, Sudipta Sarangi and Mikhael Shor

1046: Household Savings Decision and Income Uncertainty

Martin Beznoska and Richard Ochmann

1045: Joint Customer Data Acquisition and Sharing among Rivals

Nicola Jentzsch, Geza Sapi and Irina Suleymanova

1044: Does Intermarriage Pay Off?: A Panel Data Analysis

Olga Nottmeyer

1043: Hidden Skewness

Ludwig Ensthaler, Olga Nottmeyer and Georg Weizsäcker

1042: Job Flows, Demographics and the Great Recession

Eva Sierminska and Yelena Takhtamanova

1041: The Impact of Real Oil Price on Real Effective Exchange Rate: The Case of Azerbaijan

Fakhri Hasanov

1040: Driven by the Markets?: ECB Sovereign Bond Purchases and the Securities Markets Programme

Ansgar Belke

1039: The Long-Term Care System in Germany

Erika Schulz

1038: The Long-Term Care System in Denmark

Erika Schulz

1037: Income and Longevity Revisited: Do High-Earning Women Live Longer?

Friedrich Breyer and Jan Marcus

1036: Measuring Regional Inequality by Internet Car Price Advertisements: Evidence for Germany

Konstantin Kholodilin and Boriss Siliverstovs

1035: Do External Technology Acquisitions Matter for Innovative Efficiency and Productivity?

Tseveen Gantumur and Andreas Stephan

1034: Strategic Behavior and International Benchmarking for Monopoly Price Regulation: The Case of Mexico

Dagobert Brito and Juan Rosellon

1033: The Business of Piracy in Somalia

Sarah Percy and Anja Shortland

1032: Implementing CDM Limits in the EU ETS: A Law and Economics Approach

Alexander Vasa

1031: The Shadow Economy in International Comparison: Options for Economic Policy Derived from an OECD Panel Analysis

Ulrich Thiessen

1030: Empiricism Meets Theory: Is the Boone-Indicator Applicable?

Alexander Schiersch and Jens Schmidt-Ehmcke

1029: Liquidity Risk, Credit Risk and the Overnight Interest Rate Spread: A Stochastic Volatility Modelling Approach

John Beirne, Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Nicola Spagnolo

1028: Merchant Electricity Transmission Expansion: A European Case Study

Tarjei Kristiansen and Juan Rosellon

1027: Pricing Natural Gas in Mexico: An Application of the Little Mirrlees Rule: The Case of Quasi-Rents

Dagobert Brito and Juan Rosellon

1026: Incentives for Transmission Investment in the PJM Electricity Market: FTRs or Regulation (or Both?)

Juan Rosellon, Zdenka Mysliková and Eric Zenón

1025: Toward a Combined Merchant-Regulatory Mechanism for Electricity Transmission Expansion

William Hogan, Juan Rosellon and Ingo Vogelsang

1024: Lumpy Investment in Regulated Natural Gas Pipelines: An Application of the Theory of the Second Best

Dagobert Brito and Juan Rosellon

1023: Regionality Revisited: An Examination of the Direction of Spread of Currency Crisis

Amil Dasgupta, Roberto Leon-Gonzalez and Anja Shortland

1022: How Do Tourists React to Political Violence?: An Empirical Analysis of Tourism in Egypt

David Fielding and Anja Shortland

1021: WIATEC: A World Integrated Assessment Model of Global Trade Environment and Climate Change

Truong Truong and Claudia Kemfert

1020: Long-Run Cost Functions for Electricity Transmission

Juan Rosellon, Ingo Vogelsang and Hannes Weigt

1019: A Dynamic Incentive Mechanism for Transmission Expansion in Electricity Networks: Theory, Modeling, and Application

Juan Rosellon and Hannes Weigt

1018: Intangibles, Can They Explain the Dispersion in Return Rates?

Bernd Görzig and Martin Gornig

1017: Energy Consumption and Economic Growth: New Insights into the Cointegration Relationship

Ansgar Belke, Christian Dreger and Frauke de Haan

1016: Long Memory and Fractional Integration in High Frequency Financial Time Series

Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Luis Gil-Alana

1015: Does Employer Learning Vary by Occupation?

Hani Mansour

1014: The Effects of Labor Supply Shocks on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Hani Mansour

1013: Violent Conflict and Inequality

Çağatay Bircan, Tilman Brück and Marc Vothknecht

1012: Consumer Shopping Costs as a Cause of Slotting Fees: A Rent-Shifting Mechanism

Stephane Caprice and Vanessa von Schlippenbach