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1311: Signature Requirements and Citizen Initiatives: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Germany

Felix Arnold and Ronny Freier

1310: Ex-Post Merger Evaluation in the UK Retail Market for Books

Luca Aguzzoni, Elena Argentesi, Lorenzo Ciari, Tomaso Duso and Massimo Tognoni

1309: Bank Lending Procyclicality and Credit Quality during Financial Crises

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Stefano Di Colli and Juan Sergio Lopez

1308: The Role of CO2-EOR for the Development of a CCTS Infrastructure in the North Sea Region: A Techno-Economic Model and Application

Roman Mendelevitch

1307: Fiscal Federalism and Tax Administration: Evidence from Germany

Timm Bönke, Beate Jochimsen and Carsten Schröder

1306: Networks and Selection in International Migration to Spain

Nina Neubecker, Marcel Smolka and Anne Steinbacher

1305: Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes

Armin Falk and Nora Szech

1304: On the International Spillovers of US Quantitative Easing

Marcel Fratzscher, Marco Lo Duca and Roland Straub

1303: Has German Business Income Taxation Raised too Little Revenue over the Last Decades?

Stefan Bach

1302: Oil Prices, Exchange Rates and Asset Prices

Marcel Fratzscher, Daniel Schneider and Ine Van Robays

1301: Integrating Intermittent Renewable Wind Generation: A Stochastic Multi-Market Electricity Model for the European Electricity Market

Jan Abrell and Friedrich Kunz

1300: Measuring Alpha in the Fund Management Industry: Do Female Managers Perform Better?

Vassilios Babalos, Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Nikolaos Philippas

1299: European Electricity Grid Infrastructure Expansion in a 2050 Context

Jonas Egerer, Clemens Gerbaulet and Casimir Lorenz

1298: The Benefit of Coordinating Congestion Management in Germany

Friedrich Kunz and Alexander Zerrahn

1297: Trick or Treat?: Maternal Involuntary Job Loss and Children's Non-cognitive Skills

Frauke Peter

1296: Exchange Rate Uncertainty and International Portfolio Flows

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Faek Menla Ali and Nicola Spagnolo

1295: The European Debt Crisis and Fiscal Reaction Functions in Europe 2000-2012

Guido Baldi and Karsten Staehr

1294: Long Memory and Fractional Integration in High Frequency Data on the US Dollar / British Pound Spot Exchange Rate

Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Luis Gil-Alana

1293: Estimating Crowding Costs in Public Transport

Luke Haywood and Martin Koning

1292: Comparison of Methods for Constructing Joint Confidence Bands for Impulse Response Functions

Helmut Lütkepohl, Anna Staszewska-Bystrova and Peter Winker

1291: Informational Opacity and Honest Certification

Martin Pollrich and Lilo Wagner

1290: The Scapegoat Theory of Exchange Rates: The First Tests

Marcel Fratzscher, Lucio Sarno and Gabriele Zinna

1289: On the Linkages between Stock Prices and Exchange Rates: Evidence from the Banking Crisis of 2007-2010

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, John Hunter and Faek Menla Ali

1288: The PPP Hypothesis Revisited: Evidence Using a Multivariate Long-Memory Model

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Luis Gil-Alana and Yuliya Lovcha

1287: Dynamics and Drivers of Consumption and Multidimensional Poverty: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

Tilman Brück and Sindu Kebede

1286: Noncausality and Inflation Persistence

Markku Lanne

1285: A Noncausal Autoregressive Model with Time-Varying Parameters: An Application to U.S. Inflation

Markku Lanne and Jani Luoto

1284: Post-Socialist Transition and the Intergenerational Transmission of Education in Kyrgyzstan

Tilman Brück and Damir Esenaliev

1283: Estimating Alternative Technology Sets in Nonparametric Efficiency Analysis: Restriction Tests for Panel and Clustered Data

Anne Neumann, Maria Nieswand and Torben Schubert

1282: Forecasting the Risk of Speculative Assets by Means of Copula Distributions

Benjamin Beckers, Helmut Herwartz and Moritz Seidel

1281: Business Cycles, Unemployment and Entrepreneurial Entry: First Evidence from Germany

Michael Fritsch, Alexander Kritikos and Katharina Pijnenburg

1280: Top-down v. Bottom-up: The Long-Term Impact of Government Ideology and Personal Experience on Values

Nicolas Ziebarth and Gert Wagner

1279: Long Memory in the Ukrainian Stock Market

Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Luis Gil-Alana

1278: Is the Willingness to Take Financial Risk a Sex-Linked Trait?: Evidence from National Surveys of Household Finance

Nataliya Barasinska and Dorothea Schäfer

1277: Trade Intensity and Output Synchronisation: On the Endogeneity Properties of EMU

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Roberta de Santis and Alessandro Girardi

1276: International Knowledge Spillovers through High-Tech Imports and R&D of Foreign-Owned Firms

Heike Belitz and Florian Mölders

1275: Why Do Emitters Trade Carbon Permits?: Firm-Level Evidence from the European Emission Trading Scheme

Aleksandar Zaklan

1274: A Market Screening Model for Price Inconstancies: Empirical Evidence from German Electricity Markets

Korbinian von Blanckenburg, Marc Hanfeld and Konstantin Kholodilin

1273: The Role of Natural Gas in a Low-Carbon Europe: Infrastructure and Regional Supply Security in the Global Gas Model

Franziska Holz, Philipp Richter and Rudolf Egging-Bratseth

1272: Self-Employment and Economic Performance: A Geographically Weighted Regression Approach for European Regions

Katharina Pijnenburg

1271: The Role of Hedging in Carbon Markets

Anne Schopp and Karsten Neuhoff

1270: The Spatial Dimension of US House Price Developments

Katharina Pijnenburg

1269: Zur Entwicklung der Preisniveaus in Ost- und Westdeutschland: zugleich eine Dokumentation verschiedener Preisniveau-Zeitreihen für das geteilte und für das vereinigte Deutschland

Heinz Vortmann, Jan Goebel, Peter Krause and Gert Wagner

1268: Market Driven Power Plant Investment Perspectives in Europe: Climate Policy and Technology Scenarios until 2050 in the Model EMELIE-ESY

Andreas Schröder, Thure Traber and Claudia Kemfert

1267: A League of Their Own: Female Soccer, Male Legacy and Women's Empowerment

Seo-Young Cho

1266: Religious Heterogeneity and Fiscal Policy: Evidence from German Reunification

Ronny Freier, Benny Geys and Joshua Holm

1265: Is Smoking Behavior Culturally Determined?: Evidence from British Immigrants

Rebekka Christopoulou and Dean R. Lillard

1264: On the Relevance of Exports for Regional Output Growth in China

Christian Dreger and Yanqun Zhang

1263: Chinese Renewable Energy Technology Exports: The Role of Policy, Innovation and Markets

Jing Cao and Felix Groba

1262: Voters Prefer More Qualified Mayors, but Does It Matter for Public Finances?: Evidence for Germany

Ronny Freier and Sebastian Thomasius

1261: Development Scenarios for the North and Baltic Sea Grid: A Welfare Economic Analysis

Jonas Egerer, Friedrich Kunz and Christian von Hirschhausen

1260: Getting back into the Labor Market: The Effects of Start-up Subsidies for Unemployed Females

Marco Caliendo and Steffen Künn

1259: Identifying Structural Vector Autoregressions via Changes in Volatility

Helmut Lütkepohl

1258: Have State Renewable Portfolio Standards Really Worked?: Synthesizing Past Policy Assessments

Gireesh Shrimali, Steffen Jenner, Felix Groba, Gabriel Chan and Joe Indvik

1257: Household Survey Data for Research on Well-Being and Behavior in Central Asia

Tilman Brück, Damir Esenaliev, Antje Kroeger, Alma Kudebayeva, Bakhrom Mirkasimov and Susan Steiner

1256: The Treatment Effect of Attending a High-Quality School and the Influence of Unobservables

Ronny Freier and Johanna Storck

1255: Persistence and Cycles in the US Federal Funds Rate

Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Luis Gil-Alana

1254: Business Cycles, International Trade and Capital Flows: Evidence from Latin America

Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Alessandro Girardi

1253: Endogenous Investment Decisions in Natural Gas Equilibrium Models with Logarithmic Cost Functions

Daniel Huppmann

1252: Are Uzbeks Better off than Kyrgyz?: Measuring and Decomposing Horizontal Inequality

Damir Esenaliev and Susan Steiner

1251: Market Access and Child Labour: Survey Evidence from Rural Uganda

Tony Muhumuza

1250: Integrated Electricity Generation Expansion and Transmission Capacity Planning: An Application to the Central European Region

Andreas Schröder and Maximilian Bracke

1249: Does Euro Area Membership Affect the Relation between GDP Growth and Public Debt?

Christian Dreger and Hans-Eggert Reimers

1248: Persistence in Youth Unemployment

Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Luis A. Gil-Alana

1247: Testing the Marshall-Lerner Condition in Kenya

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Luis Gil-Alana and Robert Mudida

1246: Human Trafficking, a Shadow of Migration: Evidence from Germany

Seo-Young Cho

1245: On the Path to Trade Liberalization: Political Regimes in International Trade Negotiations

Florian Mölders

1244: Noise Expectation and House Prices

Andreas Mense and Konstantin Kholodilin

1243: Age Effects in the Okun's Law within the Eurozone

Oliver Hutengs and Georg Stadtmann

1242: Flight-to-Liquidity and the Great Recession

Sören Radde

1241: The Returns to Education for Opportunity Entrepreneurs, Necessity Entrepreneurs, and Paid Employees

Frank Fossen and Tobias J. M. Büttner

1240: Risks and Returns to Educational Fields: A Financial Asset Approach to Vocational and Academic Education

Daniela Glocker and Johanna Storck

1239: Do Absolute Majorities Spend Less?: Evidence from Germany

Ronny Freier and Christian Odendahl

1238: Hidden Skewness

Ludwig Ensthaler, Olga Nottmeyer and Georg Weizsäcker

1237: How Innovative Are Spin-offs at Later Stages of Development?: Comparing Innovativeness of Established Research Spin-offs and Otherwise Created Firms

Anna Lejpras

1236: Appropriate Technology, Human Capital and Development Accounting

Areendam Chanda and Beatrice Farkas

1235: Reducing Confidence Bands for Simulated Impulse Responses

Helmut Lütkepohl

1234: Family and Labor Market Choices: Requirements to Guide Effective Evidence-Based Policy

Anna Kurowska, Michal Myck and Katharina Wrohlich

1233: Distributional Impact of the Great Recession on Industry Unemployment for 1976-2011

Yelena Takhtamanova and Eva Sierminska

1232: Re-examining the Decline in the US Saving Rate: The Impact of Mortgage Equity Withdrawal

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Mauro Costantini and Antonio Paradiso

1231: Liquidity Constraints and the Permanent Income Hypothesis: Pseudo Panel Estimation with German Consumption Survey Data

Martin Beznoska and Richard Ochmann

1230: Fundamental Problems with Nonfundamental Shocks

Helmut Lütkepohl

1229: Knowledge, Location, and Internationalization: Empirical Evidence for Manufacturing SMEs

Anna Lejpras

1228: Should I Stay or Should I Go?: A Laboratory Analysis of Investment Opportunities under Ambiguity

Paul Viefers

1227: The Incidence of the European Union Emissions Trading System and the Role of Revenue Recycling: Empirical Evidence from Combined Industry- and Household-Level Data

Martin Beznoska, Johanna Cludius and Viktor Steiner

1226: Health Care Expenditures and Longevity: Is There a Eubie Blake Effect?

Friedrich Breyer, Normann Lorenz and Thomas Niebel

1225: The Credibility of Monetary Policy Announcements: Empirical Evidence for OECD Countries since the 1960s

Ansgar Belke, Andreas Freytag, Jonas Keil and Friedrich Schneider

1224: The Long Persistence of Regional Entrepreneurship Culture: Germany 1925 - 2005

Michael Fritsch and Michael Wyrwich

1223: Interest Rate Pass-through in the EMU: New Evidence from Nonlinear Cointegration Techniques for Fully Harmonized Data

Ansgar Belke, Joscha Beckmann and Florian Verheyen

1222: Marginal Employment, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality

Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn and Arne Uhlendorff

1221: Monetary Commitment and Structural Reforms: A Dynamic Panel Analysis for Transition Economies

Ansgar Belke and Lukas Vogel

1220: Does Consumption Decline at Retirement?: Evidence from Repeated Cross-Section Data for Germany

Martin Beznoska and Viktor Steiner

1219: German Nuclear Phase-out Policy: Effects on European Electricity Wholesale Prices, Emission Prices, Conventional Power Plant Investments and Eletricity Trade

Thure Traber and Claudia Kemfert

1218: Modifying Taylor Reaction Functions in Presence of the Zero-Lower-Bound: Evidence for the ECB and the Fed

Ansgar Belke and Jens Klose

1217: Is Technical Progress Sectorally Concentrated?: An Empirical Analysis for Western European Countries

Alexander Schiersch, Heike Belitz and Martin Gornig

1216: Location, Location, Location: Extracting Location Value from House Prices

Jens Kolbe, Rainer Schulz, Martin Wersing and Axel Werwatz

1215: The Impact of Introducing an Interest Barrier: Evidence from the German Corporation Tax Reform 2008

Hermann Buslei and Martin Simmler

1214: Trade and the Environment: The Role of Firm Heterogeneity

Udo Kreickemeier and Philipp Richter

1213: Estimating Heterogeneous Returns to Education in Germany via Conditional Heteroskedasticity

Nils Saniter

1212: Internet Offer Prices for Flats and Their Determinants: A Cross Section of Large European Cities

Konstantin Kholodilin