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811: Support Vector Machines (SVM) as a Technique for Solvency Analysis

Laura Auria and Rouslan A. Moro

809: Green, Brown, and Now White Certificates: Are Three One Too Many? A Micromodel of Market Interaction

Georg Meran and Nadine Wittmann

808: Labour Market Integration and the Transition to Parenthood: A Comparison of Germany and the UK

Christian Schmitt

807: Financial Risk Aversion and Household Asset Diversification

Nataliya Barasinska, Dorothea Schäfer and Andreas Stephan

806: Examining the Gender Wealth Gap in Germany

Eva Sierminska, Joachim Frick and Markus Grabka

805: Financial Student Aid and Enrollment into Higher Education: New Evidence from Germany

Viktor Steiner and Katharina Wrohlich

804: Locational Conditions, Cooperation, and Innovativeness: Evidence from Research and Company Spin-offs

Anna Lejpras and Andreas Stephan

803: A Note on the High Stability of Happiness: The Minimal Effects of a Nuclear Catastrophe on Life Satisfaction

Eva Berger

802: Tropical Cyclone Losses in the USA and the Impact of Climate Change: A Trend Analysis Based on a New Dataset

Silvio Schmidt, Claudia Kemfert and Peter Höppe

801: Is There Increasing Regional Specialisation within the General Process of Deindustrialisation?

Kurt Geppert, Martin Gornig and Anna Lejpras

800: Gender, Migration, Remittances: Evidence from Germany

Elke Holst, Andrea Schäfer and Mechthild Schrooten

799: Open Source Software, Closed Source Software or Both: Impacts on Industry Growth and the Role of Intellectual Property Rights

Sebastian Engelhardt and Sushmita Swaminathan

798: The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival

Marco Caliendo, Frank Fossen and Alexander Kritikos

797: The Preadult Origins of Post-Materialism: A Longitudinal Sibling Study

Martin Kroh

796: Bertrand Competition in Markets with Network Effects and Switching Costs

Irina Suleymanova and Christian Wey

795: M3 Money Demand and Excess Liquidity in the Euro Area

Christian Dreger and Juergen Wolters

794: On the (Mis-) Alignment of Consumer and Social Welfare in Markets with Network Effects

Irina Suleymanova and Christian Wey

793: Upfront Payments and Listing Decisions

Pio Baake and Vanessa von Schlippenbach

792: Imposed Benefit Sanctions and the Unemployment-to-Employment Transition: The German Experience

Kai-Uwe Müller and Viktor Steiner

791: Would a Legal Minimum Wage Reduce Poverty?: A Microsimulation Study for Germany

Kai-Uwe Müller and Viktor Steiner

790: Employment Effects of Welfare Reforms: Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Life-Cycle Model

Peter Haan, Victoria Prowse and Arne Uhlendorff

789: Success in the University Admission Process in Germany: Regional Provenance Matters

Sebastian Braun and Nadja Dwenger

788: Complementarities, Below-Cost Pricing, and Welfare Losses

Vanessa von Schlippenbach

787: Estimating Fundamental Cross-Section Dispersion from Fixed Event Forecasts

Jonas Dovern and Ulrich Fritsche

786: Obesity and Developmental Functioning Among Children Aged 2-4 Years

John Cawley and Katharina Spiess

785: Does Aging Influence Sectoral Employment Shares?: Evidence from Panel Data

Ulrich Thiessen, Konstantin Kholodilin and Boriss Siliverstovs

784: Corporate Debt Maturity Choice in Transition Financial Markets

Andreas Stephan, Oleksandr Talavera and Andriy Tsapin

783: The "V-Factor": Distribution, Timing and Correlates of the Great Indian Growth Turnaround

Chetan Ghate and Stephen Wright

782: Accidents, Liability Obligations and Monopolized Markets for Spare Parts: Profits and Social Welfare

Pio Baake

781: Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality

Martin Kahanec and Klaus Zimmermann

780: Technology Portfolio and Market Value

Jens Schmidt-Ehmcke and Petra Zloczysti

779: In Vino Pecunia?: The Association between Beverage-Specific Drinking Behavior and Wages

Nicolas R. Ziebarth and Markus Grabka

778: Mortgage Market Maturity and Homeownership Inequality among Young Households: A Five-Country Perspective

Alena Bičáková and Eva Sierminska

777: Copayments for Ambulatory Care in Germany: A Natural Experiment Using a Difference-in-Difference Approach

Jonas Schreyögg and Markus Grabka

776: Welfare States, Labour Market Institutions and the Working Poor: A Comparative Analysis of 20 European Countries

Henning Lohmann

775: What Drives the Productive Efficiency of a Firm?: The Importance of Industry, Location, R&D, and Size

Oleg Badunenko, Michael Fritsch and Andreas Stephan

774: Bringing Home the Money: Xenophobia and Remittances: The Case of Germany

Elke Holst, Andrea Schäfer and Mechthild Schrooten

773: Would a Flat Tax Stimulate Entrepreneurship in Germany?: A Behavioural Microsimulation Analysis Allowing for Risk

Frank Fossen

772: The Sociology of the Life Course and Life Span Psychology: Integrated Paradigm or Complementing Pathways?

Martin Diewald and Karl Ulrich Mayer

771: Wage Policies of a Russian Firm and the Financial Crisis of 1998: Evidence from Personnel Data - 1997 to 2002

Thomas Dohmen, Hartmut Lehmann and Mark Schaffer

770: Risk Aversion and Trade Union Membership

Laszlo Goerke and Markus Pannenberg

769: Wirkung einer Feiertagsbereinigung des Länderfinanzausgleichs: eine empirische Analyse des deutschen Finanzausgleichs

Michael Broer

768: Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten der Stadtstaaten bei gegebener Steuersatzautonomie für die Körperschaftsteuer: eine empirische Analyse

Michael Broer

767: Effective Taxation of Top Incomes in Germany, 1992 - 2002

Stefan Bach, Giacomo Corneo and Viktor Steiner

766: Konzessionsabgaben und Länderfinanzausgleich: Probleme und Lösungsansätze der Einbeziehung der kommunalen Konzessionsabgaben in den Länderfinanzausgleich am Beispiel der Stadtstaaten

Michael Broer

765: Die kurzfristigen Steuereffekte der "Thesaurierungsbegünstigung" für Personenunternehmen: eine mikrofundierte Analyse

Michael Broer and Nadja Dwenger

764: Tax Loss Offset Restrictions - Last Resort for the Treasury?: An Empirical Evaluation of Tax Loss Offset Restrictions Based on Micro Data

Nadja Dwenger

763: Where Do the Brainy Italians Go?

Amelie Constant and Elena D'Agosto

762: Gewerbesteuerreform 2008: Belastungswirkungen bei Unternehmen und Gemeinden

Michael Broer

761: Sollen Freiberufler und Landwirte Gewerbesteuer zahlen?: Steuersystematische Überlegungen und empirische Wirkungsanalysen

Stefan Bach, Michael Broer and Frank Fossen

760: Anreize wirken: deutsche Wirtschaftsforschungsinstitute im Aufwind

Rolf Ketzler and Klaus Zimmermann

759: Telling the Truth May Not Pay Off

Sebastian Braun, Nadja Dwenger and Dorothea Kübler

758: What Drives Housing Prices Down?: Evidence from an International Panel

Konstantin Kholodilin, Jan-Oliver Menz and Boriss Siliverstovs

757: The Default Risk of Firms Examined with Smooth Support Vector Machines

Wolfgang Härdle, Yuh-Jye Lee, Dorothea Schäfer and Yi-Ren Yeh

756: The Role of Credibility and Fundamentals in a Funded Pension System: A Markov Switching Analysis for Australia and Iceland

Mariangela Bonasia and Oreste Napolitano

755: Naturalization Proclivities, Ethnicity and Integration

Amelie Constant, Liliya Gataullina and Klaus Zimmermann

754: Do Regional Price Levels Converge?: Paneleconometric Evidence Based on German Districts

Christian Dreger and Reinhold Kosfeld

753: The Set-Point Theory of Well-Being Needs Replacing: On the Brink of a Scientific Revolution?

Bruce Headey

752: Evaluating Continuous Training Programs Using the Generalized Propensity Score

Jochen Kluve, Hilmar Schneider, Arne Uhlendorff and Zhong Zhao

751: Existence of Nash Networks in One-Way Flow Models

Pascal Billand, Christophe Bravard and Sudipta Sarangi

750: Are Interregional Wage Differentials in Russia Compensative?

Aleksey Oshchepkov

749: Too Bad to Benefit?: Effect Heterogeneity of Public Training Programs

Ulf Rinne, Marc Schneider and Arne Uhlendorff

748: Determinants of Poverty during Transition: Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine

Tilman Brück, Alexander Danzer, Alexander Muravyev and Natalia Weißhaar

747: Beschäftigungsförderung und Einkommenssicherung im Niedriglohnbereich: Wege und Irrwege

Viktor Steiner

746: Does the Nominal Exchange Rate Regime Affect the Long Run Properties of Real Exchange Rates?

Christian Dreger and Eric Girardin

745: Voluntary Teaming and Effort

Claudia Keser and Claude Montmarquette

744: "Marginal Employment": Stepping Stone or Dead End? Evaluating the German Experience

Ronny Freier and Viktor Steiner

743: Innovation Theories: Relevance and Implications for Developing Country Innovation

Andréanne Léger and Sushmita Swaminathan

742: Aging and Structural Change

Ulrich Thiessen

741: Economic Convergence and Rent-Seeking in Iran

Christian Dreger, Teymur Rahmani and Hans-Friedrich Eckey

740: Technological Change and Transition: Relative Contributions to Worldwide Growth during the 1990s

Oleg Badunenko, Daniel Henderson and Valentin Zelenyuk

739: Estimating Gravity Equations: To Log or Not to Log?

Boriss Siliverstovs and Dieter Schumacher

738: Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment in Germany: The Last Five Decades

Guido Heineck and Regina Riphahn

737: Optimal Taxation: The Design of Child Related Cash- and In-Kind-Benefits

Peter Haan and Katharina Wrohlich

736: Item Non-response and Imputation of Annual Labor Income in Panel Surveys from a Cross-National Perspective

Joachim Frick and Markus Grabka

735: The Missing Globalization Puzzle: Another Explanation

Boriss Siliverstovs and Dieter Schumacher

734: To Claim or Not to Claim: Estimating Non-take-up of Social Assistance in Germany and the Role of Measurement Error

Joachim Frick and Olaf Groh-Samberg

733: Volunteer Work, Informal Help, and Care among the 50+ in Europe: Further Evidence for 'Linked' Productive Activities at Older Ages

Karsten Hank and Stephanie Stuck

732: A Complementarity Model for the European Natural Gas Market

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

731: Access Price Regulation and Price Discrimination in Intermediate Goods Markets

Claudia Salim

730: Price Convergence in the Enlarged Internal Market

Christian Dreger, Konstantin Kholodilin, Kirsten Lommatzsch, Jiri Slacalek and Przemyslaw Wozniak

729: The "Bali Convention": Flexibility of Targets and Instruments Inevitable

Claudia Kemfert

728: Mergers & Acquisitions and Innovation Performance in the Telecommunications Equipment Industry

Tseveen Gantumur and Andreas Stephan

727: Children, Kitchen, Church: Does Ethnicity Matter?

Anzelika Zaiceva and Klaus Zimmermann

726: Ethnic Identity and Immigrant Homeownership

Amelie Constant, Rowan Roberts and Klaus Zimmermann

725: Robust Multiperiod Poverty Comparisons

Johannes Gräb and Michael Grimm

724: Wages and Ageing: Is There Evidence for the "Inverse-U Profile"?

Michal Myck

723: Hard and Soft Locational Factors, Innovativeness and Firm Performance: An Empirical Test of Porter's Diamond Model at the Micro-Level

Alexander Eickelpasch, Anna Lejpras and Andreas Stephan

722: Downsizing in German Chemical Manufacturing Industry during the 1990s: Why Small Is Beautiful?

Oleg Badunenko

721: Measuring Ethnic Identity and Its Impact on Economic Behavior

Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann

720: Nested Stochastic Possibility Frontiers with Heterogeneous Capital Inputs

Georg Erber and Reinhard Madlener

719: The Cyclicality of Effective Wages within Employer-Employee Matches: Evidence from German Panel Data

Silke Anger

718: Circular Migration: Counts of Exits and Years away from the Host Country

Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann

717: How Should Local Governments Tax Local Business?: Lessons from an International Comparison and a Microsimulation Analysis for Germany

Frank Fossen and Stefan Bach

716: From Transition to Competition: Dynamic Efficiency Analysis of Polish Electricity Distribution Companies

Astrid Cullmann and Christian Hirschhausen

715: Credit for What?: Informal Credit as a Coping Strategy of Market Women in Northern Ghana

Kati Schindler

714: A Markov Switching Model of the Merit Order to Compare British and German Price Formation

Georg Zachmann

713: Using Job Changes to Evaluate the Bias of the Value of a Statistical Life

Hannes Spengler and Sandra Schaffner

712: Impacts of the German Support for Renewable Energy on Electricity Prices, Emissions and Profits: An Analysis Based on a European Electricity Market Model

Thure Traber and Claudia Kemfert

711: The Gender Gap Reloaded: Are School Characteristics Linked to Labor Market Performance?

Spyros Konstantopoulos and Amelie Constant