MPRA Paper

From University Library of Munich, Germany
Ludwigstraße 33, D-80539 Munich, Germany.
Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Joachim Winter ().

Access Statistics for this working paper series.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

325: The Political Economy of Bilateralism and Multilateralism: Institutional Choice in Trade and Taxation

Thomas Rixen and Ingo Rohlfing

323: The economic importance of cross-sectional technologies: An input-output approach

Ronald Janßen-Timmen and Waike Moos

320: Die Tuerkei, die islamische Welt und die Zukunft Europas. Ein Lehrstueck zur US-Außenpolitik im 21. Jahrhundert

Arno Tausch

316: Der EU-Erweiterungsprozess und die soziale Konvergenz

Arno Tausch

310: The Lisbon process, re-visited. A reality check of the European social model

Arno Tausch

309: La Curva de Retorno y el Modelo C-CAPM: Evidencia para Chile

Manuel González-Astudillo

307: Political orientation of government and stock market returns

Jedrzej Bialkowski, Katrin Gottschalk and Tomasz Wisniewski

306: Elasticidades de Sustitución de Importaciones para Ecuador

Manuel González-Astudillo and Sara Wong

302: Stock market volatiltity around national elections

Jedrzej Bialkowski, Katrin Gottschalk and Tomasz Wisniewski

262: World Bank Pension reforms and development patterns in the world system and in the "Wider Europe". A 109 country investigation based on 33 indicators of economic growth, and human, social and ecological well-being, and a European regional case study

Arno Tausch

259: Velocity Effect On Inflationary Growth of Turkey: Evidence From Co-integration Analysis and Granger's Causality Test

Ilhan Ozturk

257: Cyprus-EU Relations: Possible Scenarios For The Future

Ilhan Ozturk, Kamil Sertoglu and Ebru Kaptan

253: Evaluating Public Policy Formation and Support Mechanisms for Technological Innovation

Elaine Ramsey and Derek Bond

252: Long memory and non-linearity in Stock Markets

Derek Bond and Kenneth Dyson

251: Operationalising Senian capability approach by modelling human development

Luciano Canova, Marco Grasso, Alessandro Vaglio, Enzo Di Giulio, Stefania Migliavacca, Sara Lelli and Stefano Pareglio

250: When Does decentralization deliver? The Dilemma of Design

Chanchal Sharma

248: Relative Risks and the Market for Sex: Teenagers, Sugar Daddies and HIV in Kenya

Pascaline Dupas

247: Risk Premia, diverse belief and beauty contests

Mordecai Kurz and Maurizio Motolese

243: Redefining Property Rights with Specific Reference to Social Ownership in Successor States of Former Yugoslavia: Did it Matter for Economic Efficiency?

Isa Mulaj

242: R&D inputs and productivity growth in China

Zheng Yan

241: PRODUCTION AND TRADE OF ANIMAL PRODUCTS IN SELECTED ECO COUNTRIES

Farhad Mirzaei and Olaf Heidelbach

240: Political Economy of Electricity Subsidy: Evidence from Punjab

Varinder Jain

235: Technological Progress in Races for Product Supremacy

Thang Nguyen

234: General Equilibrium Model of Arbitrage Trade and Real Exchange Rate Persistence

Martin Berka

233: Beauty contests under private information and diverse beliefs: how different?

Mordecai Kurz

232: Eliminating the Audit Expectations Gap: Myth or Reality?

Marianne Ojo

231: Audit Independence: Its Importance to the External Auditor's Role in Banking Regulation and Supervision

Marianne Ojo

230: The External Auditor's Role in Bank Regulation and Supervision: Helping the Regulator Avoid Regulatory Capture

Marianne Ojo

229: Wage Mobility in Europe. A Comparative Analysis Using restricted Multinomial Logit Regression

Dimitris Pavlopoulos, Ruud Muffels and Jeroen-K. Vermunt

228: The Financial Services Authority: A Model of Improved Accountability?

Marianne Ojo

226: Escaping the low pay trap: do labour market entrants stand a chance?

Dimitris Pavlopoulos and Didier Fouarge

225: Separating Quantity Shock and Quality Innovation in Relative Prices

Thang Nguyen

221: Skill-Upgrading and the Savings of Immigrants

Adolfo Cristobal

220: Optimal hedging strategies for multi-period guarantees in the presence of transaction costs: A stochastic programming approach

Stein-Erik Fleten and Snorre Lindset

219: International convergence and local divergence

Adolfo Cristobal

218: Optimal investment strategies in decentralized renewable power generation under uncertainty

Stein-Erik Fleten, Karl Magnus Maribu and Ivar Wangensteen

217: Gas fired power plants: Investment timing, operating flexibility and abandonment

Stein-Erik Fleten and Erkka Näsäkkälä

215: The Effect of Motivation on Self-Employment Duration in Germany: Necessity versus Opportunity Entrepreneurs

Joern Block and Philipp Sandner

214: Conflict and Conflict Management with Interdependent Instruments and Asymmetric Stakes,(The Good-Cop and the Bad-Cop Game)

Raul Caruso

211: Economic growth and currency crisis: A real exchange rate entropic approach

David Gómez and Guillermo J. Ortega

210: Restricción de balanza de pagos y vulnerabilidad externa en la argentina de los noventa. Un análisis de caso

Guadalupe Fugarolas Álvarez-Ude and David Gómez

209: Accounting for inequality in the EU: Income disparities between and within member states and overall income inequality

Christos Papatheodorou and Dimitris Pavlopoulos

207: Forecasting and testing a non-constant volatility

Vyacheslav Abramov and Fima Klebaner

206: Implementing VAT in India:Implications for Federal Polity

Chanchal Sharma

204: Decentralization Dilemma: Measuring the Degree and Evaluating the Outcomes

Chanchal Sharma

200: Industrial Specific Resource Allocation, Incentive Differentiation and Industrial Development Order: the Function Evolvement of Jiangsu Laver Association in Anti-Trade Barrier Litigation

Jianghuai Zheng and Jing Jiang

198: Competition Policy in Turkey

Ayşe Mumcu and Ünal Zenginobuz

197: Unorganised Manufacturing Industry in the Era of Globalization: A Study of Punjab

Lakhwinder Singh and Varinder Jain

196: Why Decentralization ? The Puzzle of causation

Chanchal Sharma

195: Vulnerability to purely contagious balance of payment crises in emerging economies: An application to the cases of Russia, Turkey, and Brazil

Cevdet Akçay and Ünal Zenginobuz

192: On environmental concern, willingness to pay, and postmaterialist values: Evidence from Istanbul

Fatoş Gökşen, Fikret Adaman and Ünal Zenginobuz

191: An analysis of mergers and acquisitions in the Turkish banking sector

Ayşe Mumcu and Ünal Zenginobuz

190: On the neutrality of redistribution in a general equilibrium model with public goods

Antonio Villanacci and Ünal Zenginobuz

189: An Asymmetric Block Dynamic Conditional Correlation Multivariate GARCH Model

Gregorio Vargas

186: The Effect of Spillovers on the Provision of Local Public Goods

Francis Bloch and Ünal Zenginobuz

183: Pareto improving interventions in a general equilibrium model with private provision of public goods

Antonio Villanacci and Ünal Zenginobuz

181: Managerial Strategies of the Cotton South

Tetsuya Saito

180: Comparing Models of Macroeconomic Fluctuations: How Big Are the Differences?

Andra Ghent

179: Competition Policy in Turkey

Tamer Kulaksizoglu

178: The Federal Approach to FiscalDecentralisation: Conceptual Contours for Policy Makers

Chanchal Sharma

171: Development of Industrial Cluster

Sudesh Kumar

168: Financial systems and banking crises: An assessment

Antonio Ruiz-Porras

167: Tourism policy innovations of an Indian state (Haryana)and their implications

Chanchal Sharma

166: Religion, Capital social et réduction de la pauvreté au Cameroun: Le cas de la ville de Yaoundé

Yves Francis Ndongo, Alice Justine Ebene and Joanna Tegnerowicz

157: How Law Affects Lending

Rainer Haselmann, Katharina Pistor and Vikrant Vig

155: Distribution-Preserving Statistical Disclosure Limitation

Simon Woodcock and Gary Benedetto

154: Match Effects

Simon Woodcock

152: Reflections of the New Economy on the monetary policy and central banking

Haydar Akyazi and Seyfettin Artan

151: Exchange rate policy and trade balance. A cointegration analysis of the argentine experience since 1962

David Gómez and Guadalupe Fugarolas Álvarez-Ude

147: Mahatma Gandhi and the Prisoner’s Dilemma: Strategic Civil Disobedience and Great Britain’s Great Loss of Empire in India

Chowdhury Irad Siddiky

146: Farmers’ Suicides and Response of Public Policy: Evidence, Diagnosis and Alternatives from Punjab

Anita Gill and Lakhwinder Singh

145: Multiagent negotiation for fair and unbiased resource allocation

Karthik Iyer and Michael Huhns

143: A Growth Theory and Competitiveness Gains Measure Linkage

Germán González

142: Random Marginal and Random Removal values

Emilio Calvo Ramón

138: Team Performance in UEFA Champions League 2005-06

Christos Papahristodoulou

136: Is there Really a Unit Root in the Inflation Rate? More Evidence from Panel Data Models

Syed A. Basher and Joakim Westerlund

135: Scenarios for sustainable peace in colombia by year 2019

Gustavo Gomez-Sorzano

134: A model of cyclical terrorist murder in Colombia, 1950-2004. Forecasts 2005-2019

Gustavo Gomez-Sorzano

133: Glass Ceilings and Sticky Floors: A Representation Index

Krishna Pendakur, Ravi Pendakur and Simon Woodcock

132: Subscription equilibria with public production: Existence and regularity

Antonio Villanacci and Ünal Zenginobuz

131: Markets with Search and Switching Costs

Chris Wilson

130: Abolishing school fees in Malawi: the impact on education access and equity

Samer Al-Samarrai and Hassan Zaman

129: Education, Employment and Earnings of Secondary School and University Leavers in Tanzania: Evidence from a Tracer Study

Samer Al-Samarrai and Barry Reilly

128: Where has all the education gone in Sub-Saharan Africa? Employment and other outcomes among secondary school and university leavers

Samer Al-Samarrai and Paul Bennell

126: Fundamental equilibrium exchange rate for the Polish zloty

Michał Rubaszek

125: Finite sample effects of pure seasonal mean shifts on Dickey-Fuller tests

Artur Silva Lopes

124: Reductions in Real versus Tariff Barriers: The Effects on Industry Concentration

Philipp Schröder and Jan Jørgensen

122: Fiscal Sustainability in Selected Transition Countries

Aleksander Aristovnik and Boštjan Berčič

120: The Uneasy Case for Fractional-Reserve Free Banking

Ludwig Van Den Hauwe

118: Achieving education for all: How much does money matter?

Samer Al-Samarrai

117: The Stochastic Advance-Retreat Course: An Approach to Analyse Social-Economic Evolution

Feng Dai and Zhong Yuan-Zheng

116: Boating Against the Current: The Advance-Retreat Analysis for Socio-Economic Process

Feng Dai

115: Developower: The Potential Motivity in Economic Process

Feng Dai

109: Learning from Private and Public Observation of Other's Actions

Manuel Amador and Pierre-Olivier Weill

107: Corporate Tax Competition and Coordination in the European Union: What do we know? Where do we stand?

Gaëtan Nicodème

106: The role of professional economists in the financial markets

Arturo Porzecanski

103: What Citizens Know Depends on How You Ask Them: Political Knowledge and Political Learning Skills

Arthur Lupia and Markus Prior

102: When Can Politicians Scare Citizens Into Supporting Bad Policies? A Theory of Incentives with Fear-Based Content

Arthur Lupia and Jesse Menning

99: Technological Progress, Structural Change and Productivity Growth in Manufacturing Sector of South Korea

Lakhwinder Singh

98: Domestic and International Knowledge Spillovers in the South Korean Manufacturing Industries

Lakhwinder Singh

97: The Dynamics of Electronic Investment Networks: African Experience

Godwin Nwaobi

96: The Nigerian Wars, Regional Crises and Ethnic Disturbances: Policy Responses and Democratic Implications

Godwin Nwaobi

93: Education, Educational Mismatch, and Wage Inequality: Evidence for Spain

Santiago Budria Rodriguez and Ana Moro-Egido

92: Can over-education account for the positive association between education and within-groups wage inequality? A note

Santiago Budria Rodriguez

91: Educational Qualifications and Wage Inequality: Evidence for Europe

Santiago Budria Rodriguez and Pedro Pereira

90: Schooling and the distribution of wages in the european private and public sectors

Santiago Budria Rodriguez

89: On Privatisation and Restructuring

Philipp Schröder

88: Cybernetics in Economics

Oldrich Kyn and Pavel Pelikan

85: Paradoxes of Perfect Foresight in General Equilibrium Theory

Joseph Johnson

81: Arrovian juntas

Michael Eisermann

80: Innovations and Economic Growth in a Fast Changing Global Economy: Comparative Experience of Asian Countries

Lakhwinder Singh

73: The Distribution of Model Averaging Estimators and an Impossibility Result Regarding Its Estimation

Benedikt Pötscher

72: Can One Estimate the Unconditional Distribution of Post-Model-Selection Estimators ?

Hannes Leeb and Benedikt Pötscher

71: Scientific Revolution? A Farewell to EconWPA. MPRA is welcome

Alexander Harin

70: Competitive nonlinear pricing and bundling

Mark Armstrong and John Vickers

65: Forward Vertical Integration: The Fixed-Proportion Case Revisited

Olivier Bonroy and Bruno Larue

64: Economies of Scale in the Canadian Food Processing Industry

Jean-Philippe Gervais, Olivier Bonroy and Steve Couture

62: Access pricing, bypass and universal service in post

Mark Armstrong

54: Iraq: Private ownership of oil and the quest for democracy

Weshah Razzak

53: Explaining the gaps in labour productivity for some developed countries

Weshah Razzak

52: Transportation and Infrastructure, Retail Clustering, and Local Public Finance: Evidence from Wal-Mart's Expansion

Michael Hicks

49: Review of Huerta de Soto´s `Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles´

Ludwig Van Den Hauwe

45: The Impact of Access to Credit on the Adoption of hybrid maize in Malawi: An Empirical test of an Agricultural Household Model under credit market failure

Franklin Simtowe and Manfred Zeller

44: Macro-determinants of UK regional unemployment and the role of employment flexibility

Vassilis Monastiriotis

43: The effect of unfair dismissal laws on small and medium sized businesses

Don Harding

40: Do corporate financial patterns in European countries converge and testitfy for disintermediation?

Dorothée Rivaud-Danset and Valérie Oheix

39: Strukturální modely růstu

Oldrich Kyn

31: The R&D drop in European utilities. Should we care about it?

Alessandro Sterlacchini

28: The redistributive role of non-profit organizations

Giovanni Cerulli

27: Equità e criteri di selettività dei beneficiari di edilizia residenziale pubblica in Emilia-Romagna

Davide Tondani

26: MNOHALETÁ MEZINÁRODNÍ DISKUSE O SOCIALISMU A TRHU

Drago Fišer and Oldrich Kyn

25: Minimum wages in Australia: an analysis of the impact on small and medium sized businesses

Don Harding and Glenys Harding

24: Il diverso modo in cui le piccole imprese misurano il loro successo

Giuseppe Tattara

23: Unemployment and Clientelism: The Piqueteros of Argentina

Aldo Ponce

22: ZDROJE NEBO PODNĚTY RŮSTU?

Oldrich Kyn

21: Mixed Tournaments, Common Shocks, and Disincentives: An Experimental Study

Steven Wu, Brian Roe and Thomas Sporleder

16: Information Theory and Knowledge-Gathering

Roy Murphy

15: Extracting, Using and Analysing Cyclical Information

Don Harding and Adrian Pagan

11: Welfare Effects of Union Bargaining Centralisation in a Two-Sector Economy

Marcus Dittrich

9: Real Exchange Rate Dynamics With Endogenous Distribution Costs

Millan Mulraine

8: VAT: Is it Suitable for the Caribbean Community?

Amos Peters and Marlon A Bristol

7: Investment-Specific Technology Shocks in a Small Open Economy

Millan Mulraine

5: Il était une fois la qualité

Sylvie Lupton

4: Between Social Order and Disorder: The Destructive Mode of Coordination

Mehrdad Vahabi