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2012-08: Optimal Damages Multipliers in Oligopolistic Markets

Florian Baumann and Tim Friehe

2012-07: Globalization and gender equality in the course of development

Niklas Potrafke and Heinrich Ursprung

2012-06: North-South Trade, Unemployment and Growth: What’s the Role of Labor Unions?

Wolf-Heimo Grieben and Fuat Sener

2012-05: External Information and Monetary Policy Transmission in New EU Member States: Results from FAVAR Models

Zlatina Balabanova and Ralf Brüggemann

2012-04: Private antitrust enforcement revisited: The role of private incentives to report evidence to the antitrust authority

Tim Reuter

2012-03: The Conundrum of Recovery Policies: Growth or Jobs?

Elias Donopoulos, Wolf-Heimo Grieben and Fuat Sener

2012-02: On the Desirability of Taxing Capital Income in Optimal Social Insurance

Bas Jacobs and Dirk Schindler

2012-01: The Interdependence Between Audit Market Structure and the Quality of Financial Reporting: The Case of Non-Audit Services

Christopher Bleibtreu and Ulrike Stefani

2011-48: Does Government Ideology Matter in Monetary Policy? A Panel Data Analysis for OECD Countries

Ansgar Belke and Niklas Potrafke

2011-47: Hostages, Free Lunches and Institutional Gaps: The Case of the European Currency Union

Günter Franke

2011-46: A Quantitative Model of Sovereign Debt, Bailouts and Conditionality

Fabian Fink and Almuth Scholl

2011-45: A Tale of Five PIIGS: Soft Budget Constraints and the EMU Sovereign Debt Crises

Thushyanthan Baskaran and Zohal Hessami

2011-44: What Determines Trust in International Organizations?

Zohal Hessami

2011-43: Disagreement, Uncertainty and the True Predictive Density

Fabian Krüger and Ingmar Nolte

2011-42: Public Education Spending in a Globalized World: Is there a Shift in Priorities Across Educational Stages?

Thushyanthan Baskaran and Zohal Hessami

2011-41: Economic Freedom and Government Ideology Across the German States

Niklas Potrafke

2011-40: International Debt Shifting: Do Multinationals Shift Internal or External Debt?

Jarle Møen, Dirk Schindler, Guttorm Schjelderup and Julia Tropina

2011-39: Electoral Cycles in Active Labor Market Policies

Mario Mechtel and Niklas Potrafke

2011-38: Macroeconomic Stability and Wage Inequality: A Model with Credit and Labor Market Frictions

Petra Marotzke

2011-37: How Do Editors Select Papers, and How Good are They at Doing It?

Robert Hofmeister and Matthias Krapf

2011-36: Intelligence and Corruption

Niklas Potrafke

2011-35: Debt Shifting and Ownership Structure

Dirk Schindler and Guttorm Schjelderup

2011-34: Academic Performance and Single-Sex Schooling: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Switzerland

Gerald Eisenkopf, Zohal Hessami, Urs Fischbacher and Heinrich Ursprung

2011-33: Globalization and Gender Equality in Developing Countries

Niklas Potrafke and Heinrich Ursprung

2011-32: Social Capital and Online Games

Christoph Safferling

2011-31: Reward Prediction Error in Online Game Trades

Christoph Safferling

2011-30: Economics in the Kingdom of Loathing: Analysis of Virtual Market Data

Christoph Safferling and Aaron Lowen

2011-29: Wage Dispersion and Labour Turnover with Adverse Selection

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela and Leo Kaas

2011-28: Auditing, Consulting, and Audit Market Concentration

Christopher Bleibtreu and Ulrike Stefani

2011-27: The Globalization-welfare State Nexus Reconsidered

Stephanie Meinhard and Niklas Potrafke

2011-26: Strategic Wage Bargaining, Labor Market Volatility, and Persistence

Matthias Hertweck

2011-25: Risk Taking with Additive and Multiplicative Background Risks

Günter Franke, Harris Schlesinger and Richard C. Stapleton

2011-24: Credit Spead Interdependencies of European States and Banks during the Financial Crisis

Adrian Alter and Yves Schüler

2011-23: Forecasting Contemporaneous Aggregates with Stochastic Aggregation Weights

Ralf Brüggemann and Helmut Lütkepohl

2011-22: Loss Allocation in Securitization Transactions

Günter Franke, Markus Herrmann and Thomas Weber

2011-21: Tranching and Pricing in CDO-Transactions

Günter Franke and Thomas Weber

2011-20: Compensation and Incentives in german Corporations

Moritz Heimes and Steffen Seemann

2011-19: Does Portfolio Optimization Pay?

Günter Franke and Ferdinand Graf

2011-18: Mechanically Extracted Company Signals and their Impact on Stock and Credit Markets

Ferdinand Graf

2011-17: The Puzzle of Index Option Returns

George Constantinides, Jens Carsten Jackwerth and Alexi Savov

2011-16: Regulation in the Market for Education and Optimal Choice of Curriculum

Gerald Eisenkopf and Ansgar Wohlschlegel

2011-15: How Far is the East? Educational Performance in Eastern Europe

Alina Botezat and Ruben Seiberlich

2011-14: Size Matters - When it Comes to Lies

Gerald Eisenkopf, Ruslan Gurtoviy and Verena Utikal

2011-13: Income and Longevity Revisited: Do High-earning Women Live Longer?

Friedrich Breyer and Jan Marcus

2011-12: Globalization's Winners and Losers - Evidence from Life Satisfaction Data, 1975 -2001

Zohal Hessami

2011-11: Unequal Opportunities and Distributive Justice

Gerald Eisenkopf, Urs Fischbacher and Franziska Föllmi-Heusi

2011-10: Doing Well by doing good - or doing better by delegating?

Gerald Eisenkopf and Urs Fischbacher

2011-09: Tempting Righteous Citizens? On the Counterintuitive Effects of Increasing Sanctions

Tim Friehe

2011-08: Market Liberalization, Regulatory Uncertainty, and Firm Investment

Florian Baumann and Tim Friehe

2011-07: Measuring the Value of Research: A Generational Accounting Approach

Robert Hofmeister

2011-06: Is German Domestic Social Policy Politically Controversial?

Niklas Potrafke

2011-05: Unemployment, Human Capital Depreciation and Pension Benefits: An Empirical Evaluation of German Data

Niklas Potrafke

2011-04: Evidence of Competition in Research Activity among Economic Department using Spatial Econometric Techniques

J.Paul Elhorst and Katarina Zigova

2011-03: Commodity Price Shocks and the Business Cycle: Structural Evidence for the U.S

Matthias Gubler and Matthias Hertweck

2011-02: The Evolution of Sharing Rules in Rent Seeking Contests: Incentives Crowd Out Cooperation

Heinrich Ursprung

2011-01: Efficient Firm Dynamics in a Frictional Labor Market

Leo Kaas and Philipp Kircher

2010-16: Does government ideology influence budget composition? Empirical evidence from OECD countries

Niklas Potrafke

2010-15: Nonlinear Interest Rate Reaction Functions for the UK

Ralf Brüggemann and Jana Riedel

2010-14: Improved Portfolio Choice using Second-Order Stochastic Dominance

James E. Hodder, Jens Carsten Jackwerth and Olga Kolokolova

2010-13: Reporting Frequency and Substitutable Tasks

Christian Lukas

2010-12: Pinning in the S&P 500 Futures

Benjamin Golez and Jens Carsten Jackwerth

2010-11: Portfolio Choice for HARA Investors: When Does 1/γ (not) Work?

Günter Franke and Ferdinand Graf

2010-10: Islam and Democracy

Niklas Potrafke

2010-09: Trust me, it is High Trust: On Trust and its Measurement

Christian Lukas and Peter Walgenbach

2010-08: Temporary Layoffs with Incomplete Worker Attachment in Search Equilibrium

Anna Zaharieva

2010-07: Risk Sharing and Employee Motivation in Competitive Search Equilibrium

Anna Zaharieva

2010-06: Working Effort and Endogenous Job Separations in Search Equilibrium

Anna Zaharieva

2010-05: Catalyzers for Social Insurance: Education Subsidies vs. Real Capital Taxation

Dirk Schindler and Hongyan Yang

2010-04: Endogenous Credit Constraints, Human Capital Investment and Optimal Tax Policy

Hongyan Yang

2010-03: Globalization and the Composition of Public Education Expenditures: A Dynamic Panel Analysis

Thushyanthan Baskaran and Zohal Hessami

2010-02: Research evaluation and journal quality weights: Much ado about nothing?

Matthias Krapf

2010-01: Gender inequality in education: Political institutions or culture and religion?

Arusha Cooray and Niklas Potrafke