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1011: Global Imbalances and the Current Account Adjustment Process: An Empirical Analysis

Marius Tippkötter

1010: Choices Which Change Life Satisfaction: Revising SWB Theory to Account for Change

Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels and Gert Wagner

1009: EU Banks Rating Assignments: Is there Heterogeneity between New and Old Member Countries?

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Roman Matousek and Chris Stewart

1008: Raising Rivals' Fixed (Labor) Costs: The Deutsche Post Case

Sven Heitzler and Christian Wey

1007: Social Relationships and Trust

Christine Binzel and Dietmar Fehr

1006: Estimating Persistence in the Volatility of Asset Returns with Signal Plus Noise Models

Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Luis Gil-Alana

1005: Gender, Transnational Networks and Remittances: Evidence from Germany

Elke Holst, Andrea Schäfer and Mechthild Schrooten

1004: The Influence of Collusion on Price Changes: New Evidence from Major Cartel Cases

Korbinian von Blanckenburg, Alexander Geist and Konstantin Kholodilin

1003: Konsolidierung der Staatsfinanzen

Viktor Steiner

1002: Drivers of Private Equity Investment in CEE and Western European Countries

Kerstin Bernoth, Roberta Colavecchio and Magdolna Sass

1001: Zur Unterrepräsentanz von Frauen in Spitzengremien der Wirtschaft: Ursachen und Handlungsansätze

Elke Holst and Anita Wiemer

1000: Labor Market and Income Effects of a Legal Minimum Wage in Germany

Kai-Uwe Müller and Viktor Steiner

999: Do Ethnic Minorities "Stretch" Their Time?: Evidence from the UK Time Use Survey

Anzelika Zaiceva and Klaus Zimmermann

998: Gender Differences in Subjective Well-Being in and out of Management Positions

Eileen Trzcinski and Elke Holst

997: Do Google Searches Help in Nowcasting Private Consumption?: A Real-Time Evidence for the US

Konstantin Kholodilin, Maximilian Podstawski and Boriss Siliverstovs

996: How Much Fiscal Backing Must the ECB Have?: The Euro Area Is Not the Philippines

Ansgar Belke

995: Financial Crisis, Global Liquidity and Monetary Exit Strategies

Ansgar Belke

994: Innovation in Concentrating Solar Power Technologies: A Study Drawing on Patent Data

Frauke Braun, Liz Hooper, Robert Wand and Petra Zloczysti

993: Innovative Activity in Wind and Solar Technology: Empirical Evidence on Knowledge Spillovers Using Patent Data

Frauke Braun, Jens Schmidt-Ehmcke and Petra Zloczysti

992: One Last Puff?: Public Smoking Bans and Smoking Behavior

Silke Anger, Michael Kvasnicka and Thomas Siedler

991: Dealing with Incomplete Household Panel Data in Inequality Research

Joachim Frick, Markus Grabka and Olaf Groh-Samberg

990: Does the Tenure of Private Equity Investment Improve the Performance of European Firms?

Oleg Badunenko, Christopher Baum and Dorothea Schäfer

989: The Forward Premium Puzzle and Latent Factors Day by Day

Kerstin Bernoth, Juergen von Hagen and Casper de Vries

988: Time-Varying Spot and Futures Oil Price Dynamics

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Davide Ciferri and Alessandro Girardi

987: Is Government Ownership of Banks Really Harmful to Growth?

Svetlana Andrianova, Panicos Demetriades and Anja Shortland

986: The Design of Unemployment Transfers: Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Life-Cycle Model

Peter Haan and Victoria Prowse

985: Start-up Subsidies for the Unemployed: Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity

Marco Caliendo and Steffen Künn

984: Public Pensions, Changing Employment Patterns, and the Impact of Pension Reforms across Birth Cohorts: A Microsimulation Analysis for Germany

Johannes Geyer and Viktor Steiner

983: European Monetary Policy and the ECB Rotation Model: Voting Power of the Core versus the Periphery

Ansgar Belke and Barbara von Schnurbein

982: Is Euro Area Money Demand (Still) Stable?: Cointegrated VAR versus Single Equation Techniques

Ansgar Belke and Robert Czudaj

981: Fractional Cointegration in US Term Spreads

Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Luis Gil-Alana

980: Information Sharing and Cross-border Entry in European Banking

Caterina Giannetti, Nicola Jentzsch and Giancarlo Spagnolo

979: Locus of Control and Job Search Strategies

Marco Caliendo, Deborah Cobb-Clark and Arne Uhlendorff

978: Unemployment and Portfolio Choice: Does Persistence Matter?

Vladimir Kuzin and Franziska Bremus

977: Price Formation on the EuroMTS Platform

Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Alessandro Girardi

976: Structuring International Financial Support for Climate Change Mitigation in Developing Countries

Karsten Neuhoff, Sam Fankhauser, Emmanuel Guerin, Jean-Charles Hourcade, Helen Jackson, Ranjita Rajan and John Ward

975: Long Memory and Volatility Dynamics in the US Dollar Exchange Rate

Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Luis Gil-Alana

974: Interrelationships among Locus of Control and Years in Management and Unemployment: Differences by Gender

Eileen Trzcinski and Elke Holst

973: Global Liquidity, World Savings Glut and Global Policy Coordination

Ansgar Belke and Daniel Gros

972: (How) Do the ECB and the Fed React to Financial Market Uncertainty?: The Taylor Rule in Times of Crisis

Ansgar Belke and Jens Klose

971: Monetary Policy, Global Liquidity and Commodity Price Dynamics

Ansgar Belke, Ingo G. Bordon and Torben W. Hendricks

970: Assessing the Real-Time Informational Content of Macroeconomic Data Releases for Now-/Forecasting GDP: Evidence for Switzerland

Boriss Siliverstovs and Konstantin Kholodilin

969: Beliefs and Actions in the Trust Game: Creating Instrumental Variables to Estimate the Causal Effect

Miguel Costa-Gomes, Steffen Huck and Georg Weizsäcker

968: Quality Distortions in Vertical Relations

Pio Baake and Vanessa von Schlippenbach

967: Benefit Duration, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality: A Regression-Discontinuity Approach

Marco Caliendo, Konstantinos Tatsiramos and Arne Uhlendorff

966: "I Want to, But I also Need to": Start-Ups Resulting from Opportunity and Necessity

Marco Caliendo and Alexander Kritikos

965: Brainy Africans to Fortress Europe: For Money or Colonial Vestiges?

Amelie Constant and Bienvenue N. Tien

964: Cultural Integration in Europe

Amelie Constant, Olga Nottmeyer and Klaus Zimmermann

963: Ethnicity, Job Search and Labor Market Reintegration of the Unemployed

Amelie Constant, Martin Kahanec, Ulf Rinne and Klaus Zimmermann

962: Overcoming Data Limitations in Nonparametric Benchmarking: Applying PCA-DEA to Natural Gas Transmission

Maria Nieswand, Astrid Cullmann and Anne Neumann

961: Technology Adoption in Critical Mass Games: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Claudia Keser, Irina Suleymanova and Christian Wey

960: Unobserved Heterogeneity and International Benchmarking in Public Transport

Astrid Cullmann, Mehdi Farsi and Massimo Filippini

959: The World Gas Model: A Multi-Period Mixed Complementarity Model for the Global Natural Gas Market

Rudolf Egging-Bratseth, Franziska Holz and Steven A. Gabriel

958: Der Einfluss von Erhebungsformen auf den Postmaterialismus-Index

Jan Marcus

957: Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Integration

Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann

956: The Globalization of Steam Coal Markets and the Role of Logistics: An Empirical Analysis

Aleksandar Zaklan, Astrid Cullmann, Anne Neumann and Christian von Hirschhausen

955: Personality and Career: She's Got What It Takes

Simon Fietze, Elke Holst and Verena Tobsch

954: The Impact of International Migration and Remittances on the Labor-Supply Behavior of Those Left behind: Evidence from Egypt

Christine Binzel and Ragui Assaad

953: Die Auswirkungen der Geldmenge und des Kreditvolumens auf die Immobilienpreise: ein ARDL-Ansatz für Deutschland

Ansgar Belke

952: Global Integration of Central and Eastern European Financial Markets: The Role of Economic Sentiments

Ansgar Belke, Joscha Beckmann and Michael Kühl

951: Refunding ETS-Proceeds to Spur the Diffusion of Renewable Energies: An Analysis Based on the Dynamic Oligopolistic Electricity Market Model EMELIE

Thure Traber and Claudia Kemfert

950: The Impact of Losses on Income Tax Revenue and Implicit Tax Rates of Different Income Sources: Evidence from Microsimulation Using Tax Statistics for Germany

Stefan Bach and Hermann Buslei

949: Inefficiency in the German Mechanical Engineering Sector

Alexander Schiersch

948: How Many Bucks in a Bang: On the Estimation of the Economic Costs of Conflict

Olaf de Groot, Tilman Brück and Carlos Bozzoli

947: The Effect of Market Power on Electricity Storage Utilization: The Case of Pumped Hydro Storage in Germany

Wolf-Peter Schill and Claudia Kemfert

946: Google Searches as a Means of Improving the Nowcasts of Key Macroeconomic Variables

Konstantin Kholodilin, Maximilian Podstawski, Boriss Siliverstovs and Constantin Bürgi

945: Product Policy and the East-West Productivity Gap: Evidence from German Manufacturing Firms

Bernd Görzig, Martin Gornig, Ramona Voshage and Axel Werwatz

944: How Stable Are Monetary Models of the Dollar-Euro Exchange Rate?: A Time-Varying Coefficient Approach

Joscha Beckmann, Ansgar Belke and Michael Kühl

943: When Does It Hurt?: The Exchange Rate "Pain Threshold" for German Exports

Ansgar Belke, Matthias Göcke and Martin Günther

942: Global and Regional Spillovers in Emerging Stock Markets: A Multivariate GARCH-in-Mean Analysis

John Beirne, Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Marianne Schulze-Ghattas and Nicola Spagnolo

941: International Financial Integration and Real Exchange Rate Long-Run Dynamics in Emerging Countries: Some Panel Evidence

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Thouraya Hadj Amor and Christophe Rault

940: Financial Development and Economic Growth: Evidence from Ten New EU Members

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Christophe Rault, Robert Sova and Anamaria Sova

939: The Impact of Domestic and Global Biofuel Mandates on the German Agricultural Sector

Giovanni Sorda, Martin Banse and Claudia Kemfert

938: Does Accounting for Spatial Effects Help Forecasting the Growth of Chinese Provinces?

Eric Girardin and Konstantin Kholodilin

937: Real Convergence, Capital Flows, and Competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe

Ansgar Belke, Gunther Schnabl and Holger Zemanek

936: Gender Differences in Entrepreneurial Choice and Risk Aversion: A Decomposition Based on a Microeconometric Model

Frank Fossen

935: Can Child Care Policy Encourage Employment and Fertility?: Evidence from a Structural Model

Peter Haan and Katharina Wrohlich

934: Expected Future Earnings, Taxation, and University Enrollment: A Microeconometric Model with Uncertainty

Frank Fossen and Daniela Glocker

933: Liquidity and the Dynamic Pattern of Asset Price Adjustment: A Global View

Ansgar Belke, Walter Orth and Ralph Setzer

932: Testing for Convergence in Stock Markets: A Non-linear Factor Approach

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Burcu Erdogan and Vladimir Kuzin

931: The World Gas Market in 2030: Development Scenarios Using the World Gas Model

Daniel Huppmann, Rudolf Egging-Bratseth, Franziska Holz, Sophia Rüster, Christian von Hirschhausen and Steven A. Gabriel

930: Arrow Index of Fuzzy Choice Function

Irina Georgescu

929: Dynamics of Earnings and Hourly Wages in Germany

Michal Myck, Richard Ochmann and Salmai Qari

928: Risk Attitudes and Investment Decisions across European Countries: Are Women More Conservative Investors than Men?

Oleg Badunenko, Nataliya Barasinska and Dorothea Schäfer

927: The Influence of Conflict on the Demand for Education in the Basque Region

Olaf de Groot and Idil Goksel

926: Do Tuition Fees Affect the Mobility of University Applicants?: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Nadja Dwenger, Johanna Storck and Katharina Wrohlich

925: 20 Years of German Unification: Evidence on Income Convergence and Heterogeneity

Tilman Brück and Heiko Peters

924: Corporate Taxation and Investment: Explaining Investment Dynamics with Firm-Level Panel Data

Nadja Dwenger

923: Meet the Parents?: The Causal Effect of Family Size on the Geographic Distance between Adult Children and Older Parents

Helena Holmlund, Helmut Rainer and Thomas Siedler

922: The Importance of Global Shocks for National Policymakers: Rising Challenges for Central Banks

Ansgar Belke and Andreas Rees

921: Measuring Ethno-Linguistic Affinity between Nations

Olaf de Groot

920: Precautionary and Entrepreneurial Saving: New Evidence from German Households

Frank Fossen and Davud Rostam-Afschar

919: Mergers in Imperfectly Segmented Markets

Pio Baake and Christian Wey

918: Mitigation of Methane Emissions: A Rapid and Cost-Effective Response to Climate Change

Claudia Kemfert and Wolf-Peter Schill

917: Does the ECB Rely on a Taylor Rule?: Comparing Ex-post with Real Time Data

Ansgar Belke and Jens Klose

916: Measurement of Health, the Sensitivity of the Concentration Index, and Reporting Heterogeneity

Nicolas Ziebarth

915: Prospective NATO or EU Membership and Institutional Change in Transition Countries

Ansgar Belke, Ingo Bordon, Inna Melnykovska and Rainer Schweickert

914: Simulation of Economic Losses from Tropical Cyclones in the Years 2015 and 2050: The Effects of Anthropogenic Climate Change and Growing Wealth

Silvio Schmidt, Claudia Kemfert and Eberhard Faust

913: Europe's Twenties: A Study Using the WIATEC Model

Claudia Kemfert, Hans Kremers and Truong Truong

912: Incentive Effects of Fiscal Equalization: Has Russian Style Improved?

Lev Freinkman, Konstantin Kholodilin and Ulrich Thiessen