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617: Educational Federalism and the Quality Effects of Tuition Fees

Alexander Kemnitz

616: Can Immigrant Employment Alleviate the Demographic Burden? The Role of Union Centralization

Alexander Kemnitz

615: Discrimination and Resistance to Low Skilled Immigration

Alexander Kemnitz

614: Immigration as a Commitment Device

Alexander Kemnitz

613: Network effects, Compatibility and the Environment: The Case of Hydrogen Powered Cars

Klaus Conrad

612: Price Competition and Product Differentiation when Goods have Network Effects

Klaus Conrad

611: Unemployment, Technology and the Welfare Effects of Immigration

Alexander Kemnitz

610: Funding, Competition and Quality in Higher Education

Alexander Kemnitz

609: Price Competition and Product Differentiation when Consumers Care for the Environment

Klaus Conrad

608: Stable Solutions to Homogeneous Difference: Differential Equations with Constant Coefficients

Manfred Krtscha and Ulf von Kalckreuth

607: Capital Accumulation, Factor Prices and Endogenous Labor-Saving Technical Change

Andreas Irmen

606: Rentenfinanzierung und intergenerationelle Gerechtigkeit: Eine wachstumstheoretische Perspektive

Robert K. von Weizsäcker and Berthold Wigger

605: Aging and International Capital Flows

Axel Börsch-Supan, Alexander Ludwig and Joachim Winter

604: The Influence of Elections on Compliance with World Bank Conditionality and IMF Program Interruptions

Axel Dreher

603: Household Portfolios in Germany

Axel Börsch-Supan and Angelika Eymann

602: The Optimal Path of Energy and CO2 Taxes for Intertemporal Resource Allocation

Klaus Conrad

601: Computable General equilibrium Models in Environmental and Resource Economics

Klaus Conrad

600: Das Konzept der Verlorenen Lebensjahre – Theoretische Entwicklung und praktische Anwendung anhand eines Vergleichs der Mortalitäten West- und Ostdeutschlands

Stefan Resch

599: Blaupause für eine nachhaltige Rentenreform in Deutschland

Axel Börsch-Supan

598: Does the IMF cause moral hazard and political business cycles?: Evidence from panel data

Axel Dreher and Roland Vaubel

597: Locational Competition under Environmental Regulation when Input Prices and Productivity Differ

Klaus Conrad

596: Die Parameterschätzung in fehlspezifizierten Independent Probitmodellen: Eine Monte-Carlo-Studie

Andreas Ziegler

595: International Comparison of Household Savings Behaviour: A Study of Life-Cycle Savings in Seven Countries

Axel Börsch-Supan

594: The German Savings Puzzle

Axel Börsch-Supan, Anette Reil-Held, Ralf Rodepeter, Reinhold Schnabel and Joachim Winter

593: Ethnic Dualism and Communication Costs – Explaining Segmentation and Wage Inertia

Ulf von Kalckreuth

592: Soziale Sicherungssysteme im globalen Wettbewerb

Axel Börsch-Supan and Joachim Winter

591: Carbon Taxes and Joint Implementation An applied general equilibrium analysis for Germany and India

Christoph Böhringer, Klaus Conrad and Andreas Löschel

590: Soziale Sicherung: Herausforderungen an der Jahrhundertwende

Axel Börsch-Supan

589: Pension reform, capital markets, and the rate of return

Axel Börsch-Supan, Florian Heiss and Joachim Winter

588: Zur Simulated Maximum-Likelihood-Schätzung von Mehrperioden-Mehralternativen-Probitmodellen

Andreas Ziegler and Angelika Eymann

587: Was für die Kapitaldeckung und was für das Umlageverfahren spricht

Axel Börsch-Supan

586: Survey sampling: a linear game

Horst Stenger, Siegfried Gabler and Jochen Schmidt

585: Rentabilitätsvergleiche im Umlage- und Kapitaldeckungsverfahren: Konzepte, empirische Ergebnisse, sozialpolitische Konsequenzen

Axel Börsch-Supan

584: Prinzipien der Renten- und Pensionsbesteuerung

Axel Börsch-Supan and Melanie Lührmann

583: Rentenreform und die Bereitschaft zur Eigenvorsorge: Umfrageergebnisse in Deutschland

Axel Börsch-Supan

582: Rethinking Pension Reform: Ten Myths about Social Security Systems

Axel Börsch-Supan

580: Einkommen und Sterblichkeit in Deutschland: Leben Reiche länger?

Anette Reil-Held

579: Financing road infrastructure by savings in congestion costs: A CGE analysis

Klaus Conrad and Stefan Heng

578: Simulierte klassische Parameterschätzung in Probitmodellen

Andreas Ziegler

577: Household Savings in Germany

Axel Börsch-Supan, Anette Reil-Held, Ralf Rodepeter, Reinhold Schnabel and Joachim Winter

576: Die Furcht vor dem Untergang der Arbeit

Axel Börsch-Supan

575: Empirical Macromodels Under Test

Herbert S. Buscher, Hermann Buslei, Klaus Göggelmann, Henrike Koschel, Tobias F. N. Schmidt, Viktor Steiner and Peter Winker

574: Öffentliche oder private Umsetzung des staatlichen Bildungsauftrages?: Eine Analyse auf der Grundlage der Theorie unvollständiger Verträge

Berthold Wigger and Robert K. von Weizsäcker

573: Employment adjustment and financing constraints: A theoretical and empirical analysis at the micro level

Werner Smolny and Peter Winker

572: Minimax strategies in survey sampling

Siegfried Gabler and Horst Stenger

571: Social Learning in Dualistic Societies: Segregation, Growth and Distribution

Ulf von Kalckreuth

570: The Future of the Euro: A Public Choice Perspective

Roland Vaubel

569: Alterssicherung und Wachstum

Berthold Wigger

568: Improving the Computation of Censored Quantile Regressions

Bernd Fitzenberger and Peter Winker

567: Social Interactions - Is There Really an Identification Problem?

Ulf von Kalckreuth

566: Institutional barriers to Economic Development: The Silesian linen proto-industry (17th to 19th century)

Marcel Boldorf

565: Health insurance and consumer welfare: The case of monopolistic drug markets

Markus Anlauf and Berthold Wigger

564: Competition in Transportation Modes and the Provision of Infrastructure Services

Klaus Conrad

563: An econometric model of production with endogenous improvement in energy efficiency, 1970-1995

Klaus Conrad

562: Voluntary Environmental Agreements, Emission Taxes and International Trade: The Importance of the Timing of Strategies

Klaus Conrad

557: Chancengleichheit, Statusmobilität und öffentliche Bildungsinvestitionen

Robert K. von Weizsäcker

555: Mikroökonometrische Evaluationsstudien: Anmerkungen zu Theorie und Praxis

Michael Lechner

552: Strategic Trade Policy under International Price and Quantity Competition

Klaus Conrad

551: Eine empirische Analyse der Geburtenentwicklung in den neuen Bundesländern

Michael Lechner

550: A Theory of Production with Waste and Recycling

Klaus Conrad

549: Public Sector Sponsored Continuous Vocational Training in East Germany: Institutional Arrangements, Participants, and Results of Empirical Evaluations

Martin Eichler and Michael Lechner

544: QALYs versus HYEs - What's Right and What's Wrong

Walter Ried

541: The role of production organization, infrastructure, and R & D in the catching-up process of Japanese to German industries

Klaus Conrad and Dieter Wastl

539: An Evaluation of Public Sector Sponsored Continuous Vocational Training Programs in East Germany

Michael Lechner

535: Does an Aging Population Increase Inequality?

Robert K. von Weizsäcker

528: Convenient Estimators for the Panel Probit Model

Irene Bertschek and Michael Lechner

516: Privathaushalt oder Heim? Bestimmungsfaktoren der Institutionalisierung älterer Menschen

Axel Börsch-Supan and Katharina Spiess

513: Age and Cohort Effects in Saving and the German Retirement System

Axel Börsch-Supan

512: The Impact of Population Aging on Savings, Investment and Growth in the OECD Area

Axel Börsch-Supan

504: Traffic, Transportation, Infrastructure and Externalities: a Theoretical Framework for a CGE Analysis

Klaus Conrad

337: U-estimators in simple random sampling without replacement

Horst Stenger

76: Adequate loss functions in sampling for a characteristic with positive values

Horst Stenger and Siegfried Gabler

68: Admissibility and completeness in sampling for proportions or other characteristics with restricted range

Horst Siebert

60: Eine makroökonometrische Untersuchung des Arbeitsmarktes der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Wolfgang Franz