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911: A Simple Model of an Oil Based Global Savings Glut: The "China Factor" and the OPEC Cartel

Ansgar Belke and Daniel Gros

910: "Do I Really Need to Go to Rehab? I'd Say No, No, No.": Estimating Price Elasticities of Convalescent Care Programs

Nicolas Ziebarth

909: Inflation and Inflation Uncertainty in the Euro Area

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Luca Onorante and Paolo Paesani

908: Work and Money: Payoffs by Ethnic Identity and Gender

Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann

907: Car Road Charging: Impact Assessment on German and Austrian Households

Dominika Kalinowska and Karl Steininger

906: Evaluating Greek Equity Funds Using Data Envelopment Analysis

Vassilios Babalos, Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Nikolaos Philippas

905: Glass Ceiling Effect and Earnings: The Gender Pay Gap in Managerial Positions in Germany

Anne Busch and Elke Holst

904: Comparing the Determinants of Concern about Terrorism and Crime

Tilman Brück and Cathérine Müller

903: Demand Side Analysis of Microlending Markets in Germany

Alexander Kritikos, Christoph Kneiding and Claas Christian Germelmann

902: Increasing Block Tariffs in the Water Sector: A Semi-Welfarist Approach

Georg Meran and Christian von Hirschhausen

901: Are Private Equity Investors Good or Evil?

Oleg Badunenko, Nataliya Barasinska and Dorothea Schäfer

900: How Robust Are Simulated Employment Effects of a Legal Minimum Wage in Germany?: A Comparison of Different Data Sources and Assumptions

Kai-Uwe Müller

899: Google Econometrics and Unemployment Forecasting

Nikos Askitas and Klaus Zimmermann

898: Global Liquidity and Commodity Prices: A Cointegrated VAR Approach for OECD Countries

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

897: Bad Bank(s) and Recapitalization of the Banking Sector

Dorothea Schäfer and Klaus Zimmermann

896: The Cross-Section of Output and Inflation in a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Model with Sticky Prices

Jörg Döpke, Michael Funke, Sean Holly and Sebastian Weber

895: Current Account Imbalances and Structural Adjustment in the Euro Area: How to Rebalance Competitiveness

Holger Zemanek, Ansgar Belke and Gunther Schnabl

894: Why Do Firms Switch Their Main Bank?: Theory and Evidence from Ukraine

Andreas Stephan, Andriy Tsapin and Oleksandr Talavera

893: The Effect of Student Aid on the Duration of Study

Daniela Glocker

892: Ageing and Mobility in Germany: Are Women Taking the Fast Lane?

Dominika Kalinowska and Uwe Kunert

891: Long Memory in US Real Output per Capita

Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Luis Gil-Alana

890: Maternal Employment and Happiness: The Effect of Non-Participation and Part-Time Employment on Mothers' Life Satisfaction

Eva Berger

889: Well-Being over the Life Span: Semiparametric Evidence from British and German Longitudinal Data

Christoph Wunder, Andrea Wiencierz, Johannes Schwarze, Helmut Küchenhoff, Sara Kleyer and Philipp Bleninger

888: Long-Term Absenteeism and Moral Hazard: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Nicolas Ziebarth

887: Armut von Erwerbstätigen im europäischen Vergleich: eine Analyse unter Berücksichtigung des Einkommensverteilungsprozesses

Henning Lohmann

886: Determinants of Internationalization: Differences between Service and Manufacturing SMEs

Anna Lejpras

885: How Does European Integration Affect the European Stock Markets?

Burcu Erdogan

884: Research Efficiency in Manufacturing: An Application of DEA at the Industry Level

Jens Schmidt-Ehmcke and Petra Zloczysti

883: Innovation, R&D Efficiency and the Impact of the Regulatory Environment: A Two-Stage Semi-Parametric DEA Approach

Astrid Cullmann, Jens Schmidt-Ehmcke and Petra Zloczysti

882: Forecasting the Fragility of the Banking and Insurance Sector

Kerstin Bernoth and Andreas Pick

881: Benchmarking and Firm Heterogeneity in Electricity Distribution: A Latent Class Analysis of Germany

Astrid Cullmann

880: Subsidies, Knapsack Auctions and Dantzig's Greedy Heuristic

Ludwig Ensthaler and Thomas Giebe

879: Multi-Factor Gegenbauer Processes and European Inflation Rates

Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Luis Gil-Alana

878: Environmental Damage and Price Taking Behaviour by Firms and Consumers

Harold Houba and Hans Kremers

877: A Structural Approach to Estimating the Effect of Taxation on the Labor Market Dynamics of Older Workers

Peter Haan and Victoria Prowse

876: Determinants of Export Behaviour of German Business Services Companies

Alexander Eickelpasch and Alexander Vogel

875: Trade Specialisation and Economic Convergence: Evidence from Two Eastern European Countries

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

874: Selectivity, Market Timing and the Morningstar Star-Rating System

Antonios Antypas, Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Nikolaos Kourogenis and Nikitas Pittis

873: Volatility Spillovers and Contagion from Mature to Emerging Stock Markets

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

872: The Role of Asset Markets for Private Consumption: Evidence from Paneleconometric Models

Christian Dreger and Hans-Eggert Reimers

871: Parental Income and Child Health in Germany

Steffen Reinhold and Hendrik Jürges

870: Beef up Your Competitor: A Model of Advertising Cooperation between Internet Search Engines

Geza Sapi and Irina Suleymanova

869: A Model for the Global Crude Oil Market Using a Multi-Pool MCP Approach

Daniel Huppmann and Franziska Holz

868: Rating Assignments: Lessons from International Banks

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Roman Matousek and Chris Stewart

867: Drivers of Exchange Rate Dynamics in Selected CIS Countries: Evidence from a FAVAR Analysis

Christian Dreger and Jarko Fidrmuc

866: Measuring Inequality Using Censored Data: A Multiple Imputation Approach

Stephen Jenkins, Richard Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng and Jeff Larrimore

865: Investor Protection and Share Prices: Evidence from Statutory Rules Governing Variations of Shareholders' Class Rights in Russia

Alexander Muravyev

864: European Financial Market Integration: A Closer Look at Government Bonds in Eurozone Countries

Sebastian Weber

863: The Impact of Financial Structure on Firms' Financial Constraints: A Cross-Country Analysis

Christopher Baum, Dorothea Schäfer and Oleksandr Talavera

862: Labor Mobility and the Integration of European Labor Markets

Klaus Zimmermann

861: The Russian Regional Convergence Process: Where Does It Go?

Konstantin Kholodilin, Aleksey Oshchepkov and Boriss Siliverstovs

860: Liquidity and Asset Prices: How Strong Are the Linkages?

Christian Dreger and Juergen Wolters

859: Common and Spatial Drivers in Regional Business Cycles

Michael Artis, Christian Dreger and Konstantin Kholodilin

858: Do Forecasters Inform or Reassure?: Evaluation of the German Real-Time Data

Konstantin Kholodilin and Boriss Siliverstovs

857: The Cost of Climate Change to the German Fruit Vegetation Sector

Claudia Kemfert and Hans Kremers

856: Die reformierte Gründungsförderung für Arbeitslose: Chancen und Risiken

Marco Caliendo and Alexander Kritikos

855: Financial Leverage and Corporate Taxation: Evidence from German Corporate Tax Return Data

Nadja Dwenger and Viktor Steiner

854: Corporate Espionage

Pascal Billand, Christophe Bravard, Subhadip Chakrabarti and Sudipta Sarangi

853: Crime, Deterrence and Unemployment in Greece: A Panel Data Approach

George Saridakis and Hannes Spengler

852: Gone with the Wind?: Electricity Market Prices and Incentives to Invest in Thermal Power Plants under Increasing Wind Energy Supply

Thure Traber and Claudia Kemfert

851: Indenture as a Self-Enforced Contract Device: An Experimental Test

Alexander Kritikos and Jonathan Tan

850: Comparing the Early Research Performance of PhD Graduates in Labor Economics in Europe and the USA

Ana Rute Cardoso, Paulo Guimaraes and Klaus Zimmermann

849: Migration in an Enlarged EU: A Challenging Solution?

Martin Kahanec and Klaus Zimmermann

848: Persistence and Determinants of Firm Profit in Emerging Markets

Andreas Stephan and Andriy Tsapin

847: Convergence in Institutions and Market Outcomes: Cross-Country and Time-Series Evidence from the BEEPS Surveys in Transition Economies

Pradeep Mitra, Alexander Muravyev and Mark Schaffer

846: Strategic Investment in International Gas-Transport Systems: A Dynamic Analysis of the Hold-up Problem

Franz Hubert and Irina Suleymanova

845: Representing GASPEC with the World Gas Model

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

844: Food Price Inflation and Children's Schooling

Michael Grimm

843: Spatial Inequalities Explained: Evidence from Burkina Faso

Johannes Gräb and Michael Grimm

842: To Dollarize or De-dollarize: Consequences for Monetary Policy

Patricia Alvarez-Plata and Alicia Garcia-Herrero

841: Gender-Specific Effects of Unemployment on Family Formation: A Cross-National Perspective

Christian Schmitt

840: Climate Change and Modelling of Extreme Temperatures in Switzerland

Boriss Siliverstovs, Rainald Ötsch, Claudia Kemfert, Carlo Jaeger, Armin Haas and Hans Kremers

839: The Private Equity Premium Puzzle Revisited: New Evidence on the Role of Heterogeneous Risk Attitudes

Frank Fossen

838: Optimal Income Taxation of Married Couples: An Empirical Analysis of Joint and Individual Taxation

Peter Haan and Dolores Navarro

837: Is Being 'Soft on Crime' the Solution to Rising Crime Rates?: Evidence from Germany

Horst Entorf and Hannes Spengler

836: The Returns to Cognitive Abilities and Personality Traits in Germany

Guido Heineck and Silke Anger

835: Das enttäuschte Versprechen der Integration: Migrantennachkommen in Frankreich und Deutschland

Ingrid Tucci and Olaf Groh-Samberg

834: Capital Accumulation, Labour Market Institutions, and Unemployment in the Medium Run

Engelbert Stockhammer and Erik Klär

833: Determinants of Integration and Its Impact on the Economic Success of Immigrants: A Case Study of the Turkish Community in Berlin

Alexander Danzer and Hulya Ulku

832: Potential Gains from Mergers in Local Public Transport: An Efficiency Analysis Applied to Germany

Matthias Walter and Astrid Cullmann

831: Next Stop: Restructuring?: A Nonparametric Efficiency Analysis of German Public Transport Companies

Christian Hirschhausen and Astrid Cullmann

830: International Benchmarking in Electricity Distribution: A Comparison of French and German Utilities

Astrid Cullmann, Hélène Crespo and Marie-Anne Plagnet

829: Effective Profit Taxation and the Elasticity of the Corporate Income Tax Base: Evidence from German Corporate Tax Return Data

Nadja Dwenger and Viktor Steiner

828: The Dynamics of Social Assistance Receipt: Measurement and Modelling Issues, with an Application to Britain

Lorenzo Cappellari and Stephen Jenkins

827: Preferences for Childcare Policies: Theory and Evidence

Rainald Borck and Katharina Wrohlich

826: Advanced Mechanisms for the Promotion of Renewable Energy: Models for the Future Evolution of the German Renewable Energy Act

Ole Langniß, Jochen Diekmann and Ulrike Lehr

825: Caught in the US Subprime Meltdown 2007/2008: Germany Loses Its Wallet but Escapes Major Harm

Stefan Kooths and Matthias Rieger

824: The Impact of Socio-economics and Climate Change on Tropical Cyclone Losses in the USA

Silvio Schmidt, Claudia Kemfert and Peter Höppe

823: Perspectives of the European Natural Gas Markets until 2025

Franziska Holz, Christian Hirschhausen and Claudia Kemfert

822: Linking Natural Gas Markets: Is LNG Doing Its Job?

Anne Neumann

821: Theory of Storage: An Empirical Assessment of the European Natural Gas Market

Marcus Stronzik, Margarethe Rammerstorfer and Anne Neumann

820: Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in a Carbon Constrained World: The Role of Carbon Capture and Storage

Barbara Praetorius and Katja Schumacher

819: Does the Nominal Exchange Rate Regime Affect the Real Interest Parity Condition?

Christian Dreger

818: Analysis of the World Market for Steam Coal Using a Complementarity Model

Clemens Haftendorn and Franziska Holz

817: Fairness of Public Pensions and Old-Age Poverty

Friedrich Breyer and Stefan Hupfeld

816: Key Parameters and Efficiency of Mexican Manufacturing: Are There Still Differences between the North and the South? An Application of Nested and Stochastic Frontier Panel Data Models

Frauke Braun and Astrid Cullmann

815: Businesswomen in Germany and Their Performance by Ethnicity: It Pays to Be Self-Employed

Amelie Constant

814: Assessing the Impact of the ECB's Monetary Policy on the Stock Markets: A Sectoral View

Konstantin Kholodilin, Alberto Montagnoli, Oreste Napolitano and Boriss Siliverstovs

813: Money Velocity and Asset Prices in the Euro Area

Christian Dreger and Juergen Wolters

812: Attitudes Towards Immigrants, Other Integration Barriers, and Their Veracity

Amelie Constant, Martin Kahanec and Klaus Zimmermann