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516: Taxation, Insurance and Precautionary Labor

Nick Netzer and Florian Scheuer

515: Aktive Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland: Bestandsaufnahme und Bewertung der mikroökonomischen Evaluationsergebnisse

Marco Caliendo and Viktor Steiner

514: Transitional Dynamics in a Growth Model with Distributive Politics

Chetan Ghate

513: Economic Growth of Agglomerations and Geographic Concentration of Industries: Evidence for Germany

Kurt Geppert, Martin Gornig and Axel Werwatz

512: Convergence of Electricity Wholesale Prices in Europe?: A Kalman Filter Approach

Georg Zachmann

511: Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey

Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Uwe Sunde, Jürgen Schupp and Gert Wagner

510: Spatial Proximity and Contacts between Elderly Parents and Their Adult Children: A European Comparison

Karsten Hank

509: Innovative Energy Technologies and Climate Policy in Germany

Katja Schumacher and Ronald Sands

508: Do Eurozone Countries Cheat with Their Budget Deficit Forecasts?

Tilman Brück and Andreas Stephan

507: The Spatial Econometrics of Elephant Population Change: A Note

Björn Frank and Per Botolf Maurseth

506: Die Einführung der Praxisgebühr und ihre Wirkung auf die Zahl der Arztkontakte und die Kontaktfrequenz: eine empirische Analyse

Markus Grabka, Jonas Schreyögg and Reinhard Busse

505: Social Agglomeration Externalities

Rainald Borck

504: Fiscal Competition, Capital-Skill Complementarity, and the Composition of Public Spending

Rainald Borck

503: Voting, Inequality, and Redistribution

Rainald Borck

502: Theoretische Analyse der Gewinnsituation im deutschen Bankensektor: Kreditvergabestrategie sichert Sparkassen und Genossenschaftsbanken Vorteile

Timo Baas and Mechthild Schrooten

501: "I Think I Can, I Think I Can": Overconfidence and Entrepreneurial Behavior

Philipp Köllinger, Maria Minniti and Christian Schade

500: Mobile Phone Termination Charges with Asymmetric Regulation

Pio Baake and Kay Mitusch

499: Economic Impact Assessment of Climate Change: A Multi-Gas Investigation with WIAGEM-GTAPEL-ICM

Claudia Kemfert, Truong Truong and Thomas Bruckner

498: Forecast Errors and the Macroeconomy: A Non-Linear Relationship?

Ulrich Fritsche and Jörg Döpke

497: Manufacturing Exports, Mining Exports and Growth: Cointegration and Causality Analysis for Chile (1960 - 2001)

Boriss Siliverstovs and Dierk Herzer

496: Tariffs and Firm-Level Heterogeneous Fixed Export Costs

Jan Jørgensen and Philipp Schröder

495: Why IT Matters: An Empirical Study of E-Business Usage, Innovation, and Firm Performance

Philipp Köllinger

494: Forecasting the Turns of German Business Cycle: Dynamic Bi-factor Model with Markov Switching

Konstantin Kholodilin

493: Scale-Free Networks in International Trade

Thushyanthan Baskaran and Tilman Brück

492: Measuring and Explaining the Increase of Travel Distance: A Multilevel Analysis Using Repeated Cross Sectional Travel Surveys

Oliver Lipps and Uwe Kunert

491: Surveying the Left-Right Dimension: The Choice of a Response Format

Martin Kroh

490: Patterns of Consent: Evidence from a General Household Survey

Stephen Jenkins, Lorenzo Cappellari, Peter Lynn, Annette Jäckle and Emanuela Sala

489: Linking Household Survey and Administrative Record Data: What Should the Matching Variables Be?

Stephen Jenkins, Peter Lynn, Annette Jäckle and Emanuela Sala

488: Validation of Survey Data on Income and Employment: The ISMIE Experience

Annette Jäckle, Emanuela Sala, Stephen Jenkins and Peter Lynn

487: The Effects of Dependent Interviewing on Responses to Questions on Income Sources

Peter Lynn, Annette Jäckle, Stephen Jenkins and Emanuela Sala

486: The Contribution and Potential of Data Harmonization for Cross-National Comparative Research

Richard Burkhauser and Dean R. Lillard

485: Some Practical Guidance for the Implementation of Propensity Score Matching

Marco Caliendo and Sabine Kopeinig

484: Explaining Attitudes towards Immigration: New Pieces to the Puzzle

Ingrid Tucci

483: The Impact of a Customs Union between Turkey and the EU on Turkey's Exports to the EU

Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann Danzinger, Dierk Herzer, Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso and Sebastian Vollmer

482: Growth and Poverty in Burkina Faso: A Reassessment of the Paradox

Michael Grimm and Isabel Günther

481: Migration, Co-ordination Failures and EU Enlargement: Paper Presented at the 41st Economic Policy Panel in Luxembourg, 15/16 April 2005

Tito Boeri and Herbert Brücker

480: Entrepreneurship, Windfall Gains and Financial Constraints: The Case of Germany

Dorothea Schäfer and Oleksandr Talavera

479: Banking Competition, Good or Bad?: The Case of Promoting Micro and Small Enterprise Finance in Kazakhstan

Dorothea Schäfer, Boriss Siliverstovs and Eva Terberger

478: Contests for Cooperation: A New Approach in German Innovation Policy

Alexander Eickelpasch and Michael Fritsch

477: Education and Growth in the Presence of Capital Flight

Debajyoti Chakrabarty, Areendam Chanda and Chetan Ghate

476: Modelling Inflation Dynamics in Transition Economies: The Case of Ukraine

Boriss Siliverstovs and Olena Bilan

475: What Can Happiness Research Tell Us about Altruism?: Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

Johannes Schwarze and Rainer Winkelmann

474: The Geographic Mobility of Dual-Earner Couples: Does Gender Ideology Matter?

Hendrik Jürges

473: Wer bleibt kinderlos?: Sozialstrukturelle Daten zur Kinderlosigkeit von Frauen und Männern

Christian Schmitt and Ulrike Winkelmann

472: Labor Market Effects of the German Tax Reform 2000

Peter Haan and Viktor Steiner

471: Estimating and Forecasting Aggregate Productivity Growth Trends in the US and Germany

Georg Erber and Ulrich Fritsche

470: The Excess Demand for Subsidized Child Care in Germany

Katharina Wrohlich

469: Relationship Banking and SMEs: A Theoretical Analysis

Timo Baas and Mechthild Schrooten

468: Entwicklung der Kriminalitätseinstellungen in Deutschland: eine Zeitreihenanalyse anhand allgemeiner Bevölkerungsumfragen

Jörg Dittmann

467: EUROMOD and the Development of EU Social Policy

Anthony Atkinson

466: Unterschiede im Freizeitverhalten: Ausdruck sozialer Ungleichheitsstrukturen oder Ergebnis individualisierter Lebensführung?

Bettina Isengard

465: Entrepreneurial Overconfidence: Evidence from a C.A.R.T. Approach

Philipp Köllinger, Maria Minniti and Christian Schade

464: Buyer Power and Supplier Incentives

Roman Inderst and Christian Wey

463: Spillovers from Foreign Firms through Worker Mobility: An Empirical Investigation

Holger Görg and Eric Strobl

462: Economic, Environmental and International Trade Effects of the EU Directive on Energy Tax Harmonization

Michael Kohlhaas, Katja Schumacher, Jochen Diekmann, Dieter Schumacher and Martin Cames

461: Productivity and the Natural Rate of Unemployment

Jiri Slacalek

460: European Labour Mobility: Challenges and Potentials

Klaus Zimmermann

459: Gewinnen arbeitgeberseitige Entlassungen an Bedeutung?: Zur Entwicklung der Beschäftigungssicherheit auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt

Marcel Erlinghagen

458: Contribution to Productivity or Pork Barrel?: The Two Faces of Infrastructure Investment

Olivier Cadot, Lars-Hendrik Röller and Andreas Stephan

457: What Causes Cross-Industry Differences of Technical Efficiency?: An Empirical Investigation

Michael Fritsch and Andreas Stephan

456: An Economic Analysis of Security Policies

Tilman Brück

455: Self-Employment Dynamics across the Business Cycle: Migrants versus Natives

Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann

454: A Computable General Equilibrium Assessment of a Developing Country Joining an Annex B Emission Permit Market

Claudia Kemfert and Hans Kremers

453: The Distribution and Heterogeneity of Technical Efficiency within Industries: An Empirical Assessment

Michael Fritsch and Andreas Stephan

452: Life Expectancy and Health Care Expenditures: A New Calculation for Germany Using the Costs of Dying

Friedrich Breyer and Stefan Felder

451: East Germany's Wage Gap: A Non-Parametric Decomposition Based on Establishment Characteristics

Bernd Görzig, Martin Gornig and Axel Werwatz

450: The Social Logic of Bounded Partisanship in Germany: A Comparison of Veteran Citizens (West Germans), New Citizens (East Germans) and Immigrants

Alan S. Zuckerman and Martin Kroh

449: Subjective Well-Being and Relative Deprivation: An Empirical Link

Conchita D'Ambrosio and Joachim Frick

448: Intergenerational Economic Mobility and Assortative Mating

John Ermisch, Marco Francesconi and Thomas Siedler

447: Nachhilfe als Strategie zur Verwirklichung von Bildungszielen: eine empirische Untersuchung mit Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP)

Thorsten Schneider

446: Der Einfluss des Einkommens der Eltern auf die Schulwahl

Thorsten Schneider

445: Political Economy of Commuting Subsidies

Rainald Borck and Matthias Wrede

444: Enrolment into Higher Education and Changes in Repayment Obligations of Student Aid: Microeconometric Evidence for Germany

Hans Baumgartner and Viktor Steiner

443: Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Firm Leverage

Christopher Baum, Andreas Stephan and Oleksandr Talavera

442: Taking "Don't Knows" as Valid Responses: A Complete Random Imputation of Missing Data

Martin Kroh

441: Automatic Identification of Faked and Fraudulent Interviews in Surveys by Two Different Methods

Christin Schäfer, Jörg-Peter Schräpler, Klaus-Robert Müller and Gert Wagner

440: Reform der Erdgaswirtschaft in der EU und in Deutschland: wie viel Regulierung braucht der Wettbewerb?

Christian Hirschhausen and Thorsten Beckers

439: Intervieweffekte bei der Erhebung des Körpergewichts: die Qualität von umfragebasierten Gewichtsangaben

Martin Kroh

438: Work Incentives and Labor Supply Effects of the 'Mini-Jobs Reform' in Germany

Viktor Steiner and Katharina Wrohlich

437: International Outsourcing and the Skill Structure of Labour Demand in the United Kingdom

Alexander Hijzen, Holger Görg and Robert C. Hine

436: Corporate Self-Regulation vs. Ex-Ante Regulation of Network Access: A Model of the German Gas Sector

Georg Meran and Christian Hirschhausen

435: Induced Technological Change in a Multi-regional, Multi-sectoral Integrated Assessment Model (WIAGEM): Impact Assessment of Climate Policy Strategies

Claudia Kemfert

434: The Relationship between Pet Ownership and Health Outcomes: German Longitudinal Evidence

Bruce Headey and Markus Grabka

433: Declining Output Volatility in Germany: Impulses, Propagation, and the Role of Monetary Policy

Ulrich Fritsche and Vladimir Kuzin

432: Cartel Stability and Economic Integration

Philipp Schröder

431: Does Macroeconomic Policy Affect Private Savings in Europe?: Evidence from a Dynamic Panel Data Model

Mechthild Schrooten and Sabine Stephan

430: R&D and Price Elasticity of Demand

Dorothea Lucke, Philipp Schröder and Dieter Schumacher

429: Measuring State Dependence in Individual Poverty Status: Are there Feedback Effects to Employment Decisions and Household Composition?

Martin Biewen

428: The Transition into Work: Specialities for the Hidden Labour Force

Elke Holst and Katharina Spiess

427: Fiscal Policy Rules for Stabilisation and Growth: A Simulation Analysis of Deficit and Expenditure Targets in a Monetary Union

Tilman Brück and Rudolf Zwiener

426: Foreign Direct Investment, Competition and Industrial Development in the Host Country: An Analysis for the Case of "White" Certificates

Salvador Barrios, Holger Görg and Eric Strobl

425: How Much Market Do Market-Based Instruments Create?: An Analysis for the Case of "White" Certificates

Ole Langniss and Barbara Praetorius

424: The Welfare State, Thresholds, and Economic Growth

Tatiana Fic and Chetan Ghate

423: The Incentives for Takeover in Oligopoly

Roman Inderst and Christian Wey

422: Are Migrants More Skilled than Non-Migrants?: Repeat, Return and Same-Employer Migrants

Jennifer Hunt

421: Household Taxation, Income Splitting and Labor Supply Incentives: A Microsimulation Study for Germany

Viktor Steiner and Katharina Wrohlich

420: Zufriedenheit mit der Altersvorsorge und Präferenzen für alternative Sicherungsmodelle: empirische Analysen mit dem Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP)

Christoph Wunder and Johannes Schwarze

419: Distributional and Fiscal Effects of the German Tax Reform 2000: A Behavioral Microsimulation Analysis

Peter Haan and Viktor Steiner

418: Productivity Analysis of German Electricity Distribution Utilities

Christian Hirschhausen and Andreas Kappeler

417: Are There Any Class Size Effects on Early Career Earnings in West Germany?

Hans Baumgartner