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410: The Impact of Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Cash Holdings for Non-Financial Firms

Christopher Baum, Mustafa Caglayan, Neslihan Ozkan and Oleksandr Talavera

409: Complexity and Progressivity in Income Tax Design: Deductions for Work-Related Expenses

Pio Baake, Rainald Borck and Andreas Löffler

408: Agglomeration and Tax Competition

Rainald Borck and Michael Pflüger

407: Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State?: Evidence from German Longitudinal Data on Life Satisfaction; A Revised Version

Johannes Schwarze and Marco Härpfer

406: Transport Cost Sharing and Spatial Competition

Sudipta Sarangi and Hrachya Kyureghian

405: Social Identity and Group Lending

Prabirendra Chatterjee and Sudipta Sarangi

404: International Emissions Trading and Induced Carbon-Saving Technical Change: Effects of Restricting the Trade in Carbon Rights

Patrick Matschoss and Heinz Welsch

403: The Attitudes towards the Euro: An Empirical Study Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

Bettina Isengard and Thorsten Schneider

402: Competition with Congestible Networks

Pio Baake and Kay Mitusch

401: Kausalanalyse durch Matchingverfahren

Markus Gangl and Thomas A. DiPrete

400: Financial System Development, Regulation and Economic Growth: Evidence from Russia

Ulrich Thiessen

399: Growth and Inflation Forecasts for Germany: An Assessment of Accuracy and Dispersion

Jörg Döpke and Ulrich Fritsche

398: Unionisation Structures and Innovation Incentives

Justus Haucap and Christian Wey

397: Asymmetric Monetary Policy Effects in Germany

Vladimir Kuzin and Silke Tober

396: Do the Best Go West?: An Analysis of the Self-Selection of Employed East-West Migrants in Germany

Herbert Brücker and Parvati Trübswetter

395: Occupational Choice across Generations

Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann

394: Discrete Choice Labor Supply: Conditional Logit vs. Random Coefficient Models

Peter Haan

393: International Market Integration for Natural Gas?: A Cointegration Analysis of Prices in Europe, North America and Japan

Guillaume L¿Hégaret, Boriss Siliverstovs, Anne Neumann and Christian Hirschhausen

392: Identification, Characteristics and Impact of Faked Interviews in Surveys: An Analysis by Means of Genuine Fakes in the Raw Data of SOEP

Joerg-Peter Schraepler and Gert Wagner

391: International Migration to Germany: Estimation of a Time-Series Model and Inference in Panel Cointegration

Herbert Brücker, Boriss Siliverstovs and Parvati Trübswetter

390: Circular Movements and Time away from the Host Country

Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann

389: Unusual Behaviour of Dickey-Fuller Tests in the Presence of Trend Misspecification: Comment

Boriss Siliverstovs

388: Konzessionsmodelle für Fernstraßen in Deutschland: eine ökonomische Analyse der Risikoallokation beim F- und A-Modell

Thorsten Beckers and Christian Hirschhausen

387: Creating Low Skilled Jobs by Subsidising Market-Contracted Household Work

Tilman Brück, John P. Haisken-DeNew and Klaus Zimmermann

386: What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does It Pay?: Native Men, Turks, and Other Migrants in Germany

Amelie Constant, Yochanan Shachmurove and Klaus Zimmermann

385: Winners and Losers: Fragmentation, Trade and Wages Revisited

Ingo Geishecker and Holger Görg

384: Coping Strategies in Post-War Rural Mozambique

Tilman Brück

383: Productivity Differences in the European Union: National, Regional and Spatial Effects

Kurt Geppert, Martin Gornig and Andreas Stephan

382: Multicointegration in US Consumption Data

Boriss Siliverstovs

381: Long-Run Forecasting in Multicointegrated Systems

Boriss Siliverstovs, Tom Engsted and Niels Haldrup

380: Location Decisions in a Changing Labour Market Environment

Björn Frank

379: Exports, International Investment, and Plant Performance: Evidence from a Non-Parametric Test

Sourafel Girma, Holger Görg and Eric Strobl

378: The Dynamics of Repeat Migration: A Markov Chain Analysis

Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann

377: Trends in Income Inequality, Pro-Poor Income Growth and Income Mobility

Stephen Jenkins and Philippe VanKerm

376: Missing Income Data in the German SOEP: Incidence, Imputation and its Impact on the Income Distribution

Joachim Frick and Markus Grabka

375: Can EU Conditionality Remedy Soft Budget Constraints in Transition Countries?

Herbert Brücker, Philipp Schröder and Christian Weise

374: National Climate Change Policy: Are the New German Energy Policy Initiatives in Conflict with WTO Law?

Susanne Dröge, Harald Trabold, Frank Biermann, Frédéric Böhm and Rainer Brohm

373: E-Business in Service Industries: Usage Patterns and Service Gaps

Brigitte Preissl

372: Private Savings in Eastern European EU-Accession Countries: Evidence from a Dynamic Panel Data Model

Mechthild Schrooten and Sabine Stephan

371: Lags and Leads in Life Satisfaction: A Test of the Baseline Hypothesis

Andrew Clark, Ed Diener, Yannis Georgellis and Richard E. Lucas

370: Market Structure and the Taxation of International Trade

Andreas Haufler and Michael Pflüger

369: On the Choice of Public Pensions when Income and Life Expectancy Are Correlated

Rainald Borck

368: Nobody to Play with?: The Implications of Leisure Coordination

Stephen Jenkins and Lars Osberg

367: Income Satisfaction Inequality and Its Causes

Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell and Bernard van Praag

366: Multinational Companies, Technology Spillovers, and Plant Survival

Holger Görg and Eric Strobl

365: Price Cost Margins and Exporting Behaviour: Evidence from Firm Level Data

Holger Görg and Frédéric Warzynski

364: The Measurement of Social Exclusion

Satya Chakravarty and Conchita D'Ambrosio

363: Competition and Innovation in a Technology Setting Software Duopoly

Jürgen Bitzer and Philipp Schröder

362: Effekte einer Arbeitszeitverkürzung: empirische Evidenz für Frankreich

Camille Logeay and Sven Schreiber

361: Outsourcing, Foreign Ownership and Productivity: Evidence from UK Establishment Level Data

Sourafel Girma and Holger Görg

360: Provision of Social Goods and Soft Budget Constraints

Lars-Hendrik Roeller and Zhentang Zhang

359: Innovation Clusters: Combining Physical and Virtual Links

Brigitte Preissl

358: Land Access, Tenure and Investment in Post-War Northern Mozambique

Tilman Brück

357: Corruption, Growth, and the Environment: A Cross-Country Analysis

Heinz Welsch

356: Environment and Happiness: Valuation of Air Pollution in Ten European Countries

Heinz Welsch

355: Do Cross-National Differences in the Costs of Children Generate Cross-National Differences in Fertility Rates?

Thomas A. DiPrete, S. Philip Morgan, Henriette Engelhardt and Hana Pacalova

354: Economic Integration, Wage Policies and Social Policies

Michael Pflüger

353: Terrorism and Trade

Volker Nitsch and Dieter Schumacher

352: Smoothed Income Poverty in European Countries

Birgit Kuchler and Jan Goebel

351: Time-varying Nairu and Real Interest Rates in the Euro Area

Camille Logeay and Silke Tober

350: Who Are the Chronic Poor?: Evidence on the Extent and the Composition of Chronic Poverty in Germany

Martin Biewen

349: Energy Taxation and Competitiveness: Special Provisions for Business in Germany's Environmental Tax Reform

Michael Kohlhaas

348: The Argentinean Currency Crisis: A Markov-Switching Model Estimation

Patricia Alvarez-Plata and Mechthild Schrooten

347: Improving the Institutional Structures for Disseminating Energy Efficiency in Emerging Nations: Energy Agencies in South Africa

Barbara Praetorius and Jan W. Bleyl

346: Analyzing E-Learning Adoption via Recursive Partitioning

Philipp Köllinger and Christian Schade

345: Estimation of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson Inequality Indices from Complex Survey Data

Martin Biewen and Stephen Jenkins

344: Home Market and Traditional Effects on Comparative Advantage in a Gravity Approach

Dieter Schumacher

343: Teen Births Keep American Crime High

Jennifer Hunt

342: Doorkeepers and Gatecrashers: EU Enlargement and Negotiation Strategies

Herbert Brücker, Philipp Schröder and Christian Weise

341: How to Turn an Industry Green: Taxes versus Subsidies

Susanne Dröge and Philipp Schröder

340: Target Shortfall Orderings and Indices

Satya Chakravarty, Conchita D'Ambrosio and Pietro Muliere

339: A Simple, Analytically Solvable, Chamberlinian Agglomeration Model

Michael Pflüger

338: Der Einfluss von Persönlichkeitseigenschaften und sozialen Ressourcen auf die Arbeitslosigkeitsdauer

Arne Uhlendorff

337: Nash Networks with Heterogeneous Agents

Hans Haller and Sudipta Sarangi

336: Intermediation in Foreign Trade: When Do Exporters Rely on Intermediaries?

Philipp Schröder, Harald Trabold and Parvati Trübswetter

335: Tax Competition and the Choice of Tax Structure in a Majority Voting Model

Rainald Borck

334: Identifying Determinants of German Inflation: An Eclectic Approach

Tatiana Fic

333: The Comparison between Ad Valorem and Unit Taxes under Monopolistic Competition

Philipp Schröder

332: International Commodity Taxation under Monopolistic Competition

Andreas Haufler and Michael Pflüger

331: Kinderbetreuung und Fertilität in Deutschland

Karsten Hank, Michaela Kreyenfeld and Katharina Spiess

330: Einkommensbezogene versus pauschale GKV-Beiträge: eine Begriffsklärung

Friedrich Breyer

329: Voting on Redistribution with Tax Evasion

Rainald Borck

328: Trade, Technology and Labour Markets: Empirical Controversies in the Light of the Jones Model

Michael Pflüger

327: Mis-Leading Indicators?: The Argentinean Currency Crisis

Patricia Alvarez-Plata and Mechthild Schrooten

326: The German Retirement Benefit Formula: Drawbacks and Alternatives

Friedrich Breyer and Mathias Kifmann

325: Income Thresholds and Income Classes

Conchita D'Ambrosio, Pietro Muliere and Piercesare Secchi

324: US Outlook and German Confidence: Does the Confidence Channel Work?

Gustav Adolf Horn

323: B2C eCommerce Strategy and Market Structure: The Survey Based Approach

Stefan Schmitz and Paul Peter Sint

322: New Firm Formation by Industry over Space and Time: A Multi-Level Analysis

Michael Fritsch and Oliver Falck

321: Labor Supply of Married Females in Estonia

Boriss Siliverstovs and Dmitri Koulikov

320: The Politics of Endogenous Growth

Chetan Ghate and Paul Zak

319: A Nation-Wide Laboratory: Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys

Ernst Fehr, Urs Fischbacher, Bernhard von Rosenbladt, Jürgen Schupp and Gert Wagner

318: Stability Criteria and Convergence: The Role of the System of National Accounts for Fiscal Policy in Europe

Tilman Brück, Andreas Cors, Klaus Zimmermann and Rudolf Zwiener

317: The Effect of Family Income during Childhood on Later-life Attainment: Evidence from Germany

Stephen Jenkins and Christian Schluter

316: Die Einstellung zum Euro: eine empirische Analyse mit Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP)

Bettina Isengard and Thorsten Schneider

315: Assessing the Contribution of Public Capital to Private Production: Evidence from the German Manufacturing Sector

Andreas Stephan

314: Do Leading Indicators Help to Predict Business Cycle Turning Points in Germany?

Ulrich Fritsche and Vladimir Kuzin

313: Outsourcing and the Demand for Low-skilled Labour in German Manufacturing: New Evidence

Ingo Geishecker

312: Structural Unemployment and the Output Gap in Germany: Evidence from an SVAR Analysis within a Hysteresis Framework

Ulrich Fritsche and Camille Logeay

311: Accounting for Poverty Differences between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany

Martin Biewen and Stephen Jenkins