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1211: Do Wealthier Households Save More?: The Impact of the Demographic Factor

Ansgar Belke, Christian Dreger and Richard Ochmann

1210: Bayesian Procedures as a Numerical Tool for the Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models

Peter Haan, Daniel Kemptner and Arne Uhlendorff

1209: Risk Attitudes and Private Business Equity

Frank Fossen

1208: For Some Mothers More than Others: How Children Matter for Labour Market Outcomes When Both Fertility and Female Employment Are Low

Krzysztof Karbownik and Michal Myck

1207: Forecasting the Prices and Rents for Flats in Large German Cities

Konstantin Kholodilin and Andreas Mense

1206: Occupational Sex Segregation and Management-Level Wages in Germany: What Role Does Firm Size Play?

Anne Busch and Elke Holst

1205: Do Parties Matter?: Estimating the Effect of Political Power in Multi-party Systems

Ronny Freier and Christian Odendahl

1204: Does Fiscal Decentralisation Foster Regional Investment in Productive Infrastructure?

Andreas Kappeler, Albert Solé-Ollé, Andreas Stephan and Timo Valila

1203: Exchange Rate Bands of Inaction and Play-Hysteresis in German Exports: Sectoral Evidence for Some OECD Destinations

Ansgar Belke, Matthias Göcke and Martin Günther

1202: Absorptive Capacities and the Impact of FDI on Economic Growth

Beatrice Farkas

1201: Employment Generation in Rural Africa: Mid-Term Results from an Experimental Evaluation of the Youth Opportunities Program in Northern Uganda

Christopher Blattman, Nathan Fiala and Sebastian Martinez

1200: Persistence and Cycles in US Hours Worked

Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Luis Gil-Alana

1199: Effects of Global Liquidity on Commodity and Food Prices

Ansgar Belke, Ingo G. Bordon and Ulrich Volz

1198: Financial Transaction Tax Contributes to More Sustainability in Financial Markets

Dorothea Schäfer

1197: Movers or Stayers? Understanding the Drivers of IDP Camp Decongestion during Post-Conflict Recovery in Uganda

Carlos Bozzoli, Tilman Brück and Tony Muhumuza

1196: Banking of Surplus Emissions Allowances: Does the Volume Matter?

Karsten Neuhoff, Anne Schopp, Rodney Boyd, Kateryna Stelmakh and Alexander Vasa

1195: Disentangling Demand and Supply Shocks in the Crude Oil Market: How to Check Sign Restrictions in Structural VARs

Helmut Lütkepohl and Aleksei Netšunajev

1194: Perceptions of (Micro)Insurance in Southern Ghana: The Role of Information and Peer Effects

Lena Giesbert and Susan Steiner

1193: Marginal Taxes: A Good or a Bad for Wages?: The Incidence of the Structure of Income and Labor Taxes on Wages

Pia Rattenhuber

1192: Implications of Mandatory Registration of Mobile Phone Users in Africa

Nicola Jentzsch

1191: Internet-Based Hedonic Indices of Rents and Prices for Flats: Example of Berlin

Konstantin Kholodilin and Andreas Mense

1190: Differential Taxation and Firms' Financial Leverage: Evidence from the Introduction of a Flat Tax on Interest Income

Frank Fossen and Martin Simmler

1189: Responsive Adjustment of Feed-in Tariffs to Dynamic PV Technology Development

Thilo Grau

1188: The Perfect Finance Minister: Whom to Appoint as Finance Minister to Balance the Budget?

Beate Jochimsen and Sebastian Thomasius

1187: Consolidating the Water Industry: An Analysis of the Potential Gains from Horizontal Integration in a Conditional Efficiency Framework

Michael Zschille

1186: Long Memory in German Energy Price Indices

Carlos Barros, Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Luis Gil-Alana

1185: Evidence of Market Power in the Atlantic Steam Coal Market Using Oligopoly Models with a Competitive Fringe

Clemens Haftendorn

1184: Who Starts a Business and Who Is Self-Employed in Germany

Michael Fritsch, Alexander Kritikos and Alina Rusakova

1183: Top down or Bottom Up? A Cross-National Study of Vertical Occupational Sex Segregation in Twelve European Countries

Andrea Schäfer, Ingrid Tucci and Karin Gottschall

1182: Goods Follow Bytes: The Impact of ICT on EU Trade

Anselm Mattes, Philipp Meinen and Ferdinand Pavel

1181: How Do Taxes Affect Investment When Firms Face Financial Constraints?

Martin Simmler

1180: Does Government Ideology Matter in Monetary Policy?: A Panel Data Analysis for OECD Countries

Ansgar Belke and Niklas Potrafke

1179: Funding Self-Employment: The Role of Consumer Credit

Christoph Kneiding and Alexander Kritikos

1178: Financial Integration and Macroeconomic Stability: What Role for Large Banks?

Franziska Bremus

1177: Incumbency, Party Identity and Governmental Lead: Evidence for Heterogeneous Incumbency Effects for Germany

Florian Ade, Ronny Freier and Christian Odendahl

1176: Assessing the Strength and Effectiveness of Renewable Electricity Feed-in Tariffs in European Union Countries

Felix Groba, Joe Indvik and Steffen Jenner

1175: A Switch from Joint to Individual Taxation Is Welfare Improving

André Decoster and Peter Haan

1174: Labor Markets and the Financial Crisis: Evidence from Tajikistan

Antje Kröger and Kristina Meier

1173: In-Sample and Out-of-Sample Prediction of Stock Market Bubbles: Cross-Sectional Evidence

Helmut Herwartz and Konstantin Kholodilin

1172: Bayesian Inference for the Mixed-Frequency VAR Model

Paul Viefers

1171: Transmission Investment in the Peruvian Electricity Market: Theory and Applications

Erix Ruiz and Juan Rosellon

1170: Remittances and Children's Capabilities: New Evidence from Kyrgyzstan, 2005-2008

Antje Kröger and Kathryn Anderson

1169: Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market

Katharina Wrohlich

1168: Can Internet Ads Serve as an Indicator of Homeownership Rates?

Konstantin Kholodilin and Andreas Mense

1167: The Effect of Health and Employment Risks on Precautionary Savings

Johannes Geyer

1166: Renewable Electric Energy Integration: Quantifying the Value of Design of Markets for International Transmission Capacity

Karsten Neuhoff, Rodney Boyd, Thilo Grau, Julian Barquin, Francisco Echavarren, Janusz Bialek, Chris Dent, Christian von Hirschhausen, Benjamin Hobbs, Friedrich Kunz, Hannes Weigt, Christian Nabe, Georgios Papaefthymiou and Christoph Weber

1165: Persistence and Cyclical Dependence in the Monthly Euribor Rate

Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Luis Gil-Alana

1164: Fiscal Spillovers in the Euro Area

Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Alessandro Girardi

1163: Determinants of Trade with Solar Energy Technology Components: Evidence on the Porter Hypothesis?

Felix Groba

1162: Balancing and Intraday Market Design: Options for Wind Integration

Frieder Borggrefe and Karsten Neuhoff

1161: Congestion Management in European Power Networks: Criteria to Assess the Available Options

Karsten Neuhoff, Benjamin Hobbs and David M Newbery

1160: Lifetime Earnings Inequality in Germany

Timm Bönke, Giacomo Corneo and Holger Lüthen

1159: Consumption, Wealth, Stock and Housing Returns: Evidence from Emerging Markets

Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Ricardo M. Souza

1158: Are Stock and Housing Returns Complements or Substitutes?: Evidence from OECD Countries

Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Ricardo M. Souza

1157: A Critique and Reframing of Personality in Labour Market Theory: Locus of Control and Labour Market Outcomes

Eileen Trzcinski and Elke Holst

1156: Economic Effects of Renewable Energy Expansion: A Model-Based Analysis for Germany

Jürgen Blazejczak, Frauke G. Braun, Dietmar Edler and Wolf-Peter Schill

1155: "Robin Hook": The Developmental Effects of Somali Piracy

Anja Shortland

1154: Facilitating Low-Carbon Investments: Lessons from Natural Gas

Anne Neumann and Karsten Neuhoff

1153: Using Personal Car Register for Measuring Economic Inequality in Countries with a Large Share of Shadow Economy: Evidence for Latvia

Vyacheslav Dombrovsky, Konstantin Kholodilin and Boriss Siliverstovs

1152: Stationarity Changes in Long-Run Fossil Resource Prices: Evidence from Persistence Break Testing

Aleksandar Zaklan, Jan Abrell and Anne Neumann

1151: The Chinese Impact on GDP Growth and Inflation in the Industrial Countries

Christian Dreger and Yanqun Zhang

1150: Industry-Specific Knowledge Spurs Productivity: An Application of Panel Cointegration

Petra Zloczysti

1149: A Further Examination of the Export-Led Growth Hypothesis

Christian Dreger and Dierk Herzer

1148: The Good Governance Indicators of the Millennium Challenge Account: How Many Dimensions Are Really Being Measured?

Martin Knoll and Petra Zloczysti

1147: Incumbency as the Major Advantage: The Electoral Advantage for Parties of Incumbent Mayors

Ronny Freier

1146: What about Coal?: Interactions between Climate Policies and the Global Steam Coal Market until 2030

Clemens Haftendorn, Claudia Kemfert and Franziska Holz

1145: Removing Cross-Border Capacity Bottlenecks in the European Natural Gas Market: A Proposed Merchant-Regulatory Mechanism

Anne Neumann, Juan Rosellon and Hannes Weigt

1144: Merger Efficiency and Welfare Implications of Buyer Power

Özlem Bedre-Defolie and Stephane Caprice

1143: The Effects of Conflict on Fertility in Rwanda

Kati Schindler and Tilman Brück

1142: An Early Warning System to Predict the House Price Bubbles

Christian Dreger and Konstantin Kholodilin

1141: Ramifications of Debt Restructuring on the Euro Area: The Example of Large European Economies' Exposure to Greece

Ansgar Belke and Christian Dreger

1140: Longevity, Life-Cycle Behavior and Pension Reform

Peter Haan and Victoria Prowse

1139: Price Discovery and Trade Fragmentation in a Multi-Market Environment: Evidence from the MTS System

Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Alessandro Girardi

1138: Employment Growth, Inflation and Output Growth: Was Phillips Right?: Evidence from a Dynamic Panel

Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Marinko Skare

1137: A Wealth Tax on the Rich to Bring down Public Debt?: Revenue and Distributional Effects of a Capital Levy

Stefan Bach, Martin Beznoska and Viktor Steiner

1136: When Can We Trust Population Thresholds in Regression Discontinuity Designs?

Florian Ade and Ronny Freier

1135: Temporary Agency Work and Firm Competitiveness: Evidence from German Manufacturing Firms

Sebastian Nielen and Alexander Schiersch

1134: Activity Choices of Internally Displaced Persons and Returnees: Quantitative Survey Evidence from Post-War Northern Uganda

Carlos Bozzoli, Tilman Brück and Tony Muhumuza

1133: Who Gives Aid to Whom and When?: Aid Accelerations, Shocks and Policies

Tilman Brück and Guo Xu

1132: Survey of Photovoltaic Industry and Policy in Germany and China

Thilo Grau, Molin Huo and Karsten Neuhoff

1131: Money and Inflation in the Euro Area during the Financial Crisis

Christian Dreger and Juergen Wolters

1130: Some Determinants of Intermediate Local Governments' Spending Efficiency: The Case of French Départements

Maria Nieswand and Stefan Seifert

1129: An Indicator for National Systems of Innovation: Methodology and Application to 17 Industrialized Countries

Heike Belitz, Marius Clemens, Christian von Hirschhausen, Jens Schmidt-Ehmcke, Axel Werwatz and Petra Zloczysti

1128: Does Quality Make a Difference?: Employment Effects of High- and Low-Quality Start-Ups

Michael Fritsch and Alexandra Schroeter

1127: New Business Formation and Regional Development: A Survey and Assessment of the Evidence

Michael Fritsch

1126: Subsidies for Learning in Renewable Energy Technologies under Market Power and Emission Trading

Thure Traber and Claudia Kemfert

1125: Does Gender Affect Investors' Appetite for Risk?: Evidence from Peer-to-Peer Lending

Nataliya Barasinska

1124: Are Geese Flying by Themselves inside China? An LSTR-SEM Approach to Income Convergence of Chinese Counties

Konstantin Kholodilin and Eric Girardin

1123: Who Marries Differently-Aged Spouses?: Earnings, Ability and Appearance

Hani Mansour and Terra McKinnish

1122: The Shadow Economy in OECD Countries: Panel-Data Evidence

Konstantin Kholodilin and Ulrich Thiessen

1121: Divided Government versus Incumbency Externality Effect: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Multiple Voting Decisions

Florian Ade and Ronny Freier

1120: The Strategic Use of Private Quality Standards in Food Supply Chains

Vanessa von Schlippenbach and Isabel Teichmann

1119: Cross-Section Dependence and the Monetary Exchange Rate Model: A Panel Analysis

Joscha Beckmann, Ansgar Belke and Frauke Dobnik

1118: The Performance of German Water Utilities: A (Semi)-Parametric Analysis

Michael Zschille and Matthias Walter

1117: Long-Run Consequences of Natural Disasters: Evidence from Tangshan

Guo Xu

1116: Fractional Integration and Cointegration in US Financial Time Series Data

Guglielmo Maria Caporale and Luis Gil-Alana

1115: Determinants of Protests: Longitudinal Evidence from Ukraine's Orange Revolution

Carlos Bozzoli and Tilman Brück

1114: The Euro Changeover and Price Adjustments in Italy

Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Alessandro Girardi and Marco Ventura

1113: Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed

Marco Caliendo, Frank Fossen and Alexander Kritikos

1112: Regional Patterns of Intangible Capital, Agglomeration Effects and Localised Spillovers in Germany

Kurt Geppert and Anne Neumann