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1184: Tax exemption for biofuels in Germany: Is bio-ethanol really an option for climate policy?

Jan Michael Henke, Gernot Klepper and Norbert Schmitz

1183: Economic policy, institutional development, and income growth: How Arab countries compare with other developing countries

Peter Nunnenkamp

1182: Why Germany has such a weak growth performance

Horst Siebert

1181: On the Coexistence of National Companies and Multinational Enterprises

Joern Kleinert

1180: Did the Bundesbank follow a Taylor rule? An analysis based on real-time data

Jens Clausen and Carsten-Patrick Meier

1179: Is European Money Demand Still Stable?

Kai Carstensen

1178: Steuerharmonisierung oder Steuerwettbewerb?

Alfred Boss

1177: Ressourcen und Ergebnisse der globalen Gesundheitsökonomie: Einführung und Überblick

Michael Stolpe

1176: Foreign direct investment and economic growth in developing countries: how relevant are host-country and industry characteristics?

Peter Nunnenkamp and Julius Spatz

1175: Zur Frage einer Infrastrukturlücke Ostdeutschlands gegenüber Westdeutschland

Henning Sichelschmidt

1174: Macroeconomic policy coordination in Europe: An agnostic view

Joachim Scheide

1173: Ist die Finanzpolitik der Bundesländer nachhaltig?

Astrid Rosenschon

1172: Driving Forces of Venture Capital Investments in Europe: A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis

Andrea Schertler

1171: Die Reform der Arbeitslosenversicherung im Zuge der Agenda 2010 und ihr Einfluss auf die Arbeitslosigkeitsdauer: Simulationsergebnisse auf Basis der nicht-stationären Suchtheorie

Björn Christensen

1170: Comparing Monetary Policy Strategies: Towards a Generalized Reaction Function

Felix Hammermann

1169: The failure of the German labor market

Horst Siebert

1168: Assessing EU concessions for service trade liberalization in the Doha Round: What frequency indices suggest

Rolf Langhammer

1167: Intellectual property rights and foreign direct investment: the role of industry and host-country characteristics

Peter Nunnenkamp and Julius Spatz

1166: Keeping Up with the Joneses: Implications for the Welfare Effects of Monetary Policy in Open Economies

Christian Pierdzioch

1165: The Effects of Japanese Foreign Exchange Market Interventions on the Yen/U.S. Dollar Exchange Rate Volatility

Michael Frenkel, Christian Pierdzioch and Georg Stadtmann

1164: Capital Mobility and the Effectiveness of Fiscal Policy in Open Economies

Christian Pierdzioch

1163: Property rights and their impact on the wealth of nations: a cross-country study

Bernhard Heitger

1162: Selektionsverzerrungen, erfragte Reservationslöhne und Arbeitslosigkeitsdauer

Björn Christensen

1161: The Integration of Imperfect Financial Markets: Implications for Business Cycle Volatility

Claudia Buch and Christian Pierdzioch

1160: The effectiveness of the interventions of the Swiss National Bank: an event-study analysis

Christian Pierdzioch and Georg Stadtmann

1159: The Distance Puzzle: On the Interpretation of the Distance Coefficient in Gravity Equations

Claudia Buch, Joern Kleinert and Farid Toubal

1158: Determinants of Business Cycles in Small Scale Macroeconomic Models: The German Case

Alfred Maussner and Julius Spatz

1157: Die Beitrittsverträge der EU: eine Bilanzierung

Hugo Dicke

1156: Learning and signalling in the French and German venture capital industries

Michael Stolpe

1155: Germany's social security system under strain

Horst Siebert

1154: Schooling Quality in Eastern Europe: Educational Production During Transition

Andreas Ammermüller, Hans Heijke and Ludger Wößmann

1153: Macroeconomic interval forecasting: the case of assessing the risk of deflation in Germany

Dóra Borbély and Carsten-Patrick Meier

1152: Educational Production in East Asia: The Impact of Family Background and Schooling Policies on Student Performance

Ludger Wößmann

1151: Die Validität erfragter Reservationslöhne: ein Test auf Basis der stationären Suchtheorie

Björn Christensen

1150: Deutschland in der Krise - wie wird die Starre aufgelöst?

Horst Siebert

1149: DART97: a description of the multi-regional, multi-sectoral trade model for the analysis of climate policies

Gernot Klepper, Sonja Peterson and Katrin Springer

1148: Arbeits- und Investitionsanreize in Deutschland: die Rolle der Abgaben- und Transferpolitik als Determinante des Wachstums des Produktionspotentials

Alfred Boss

1147: Reform-Notwendigkeiten der Alters- und Gesundheitsvorsorge: Zwölf Thesen

Horst Siebert

1146: Zur Finanzlage Berlins - ein Vergleich mit Hamburg

Astrid Rosenschon

1145: Which School Systems Sort Weaker Students into Smaller Classes? International Evidence

Martin R. West and Ludger Wößmann

1144: Zur Einführung privater Arbeitslosenversicherungen in Deutschland

Hans H. Glismann and Klaus Schrader

1143: Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern European Countries: A Dynamic Panel Analysis

Kai Carstensen and Farid Toubal

1142: Border effects in passenger air traffic

Henning Klodt

1141: Home-Product Bias, Capital Mobility, and the Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks in Open Economies

Christian Pierdzioch

1140: Noise Trading and the Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks on Nominal and Real Exchange Rates

Christian Pierdzioch

1139: Prognosegüte alternativer Frühindikatoren für die Konjunktur in Deutschland

Joachim Benner and Carsten-Patrick Meier

1138: On the robustness of marginal abatement cost curves: the influence of world energy prices

Gernot Klepper and Sonja Peterson

1137: Trade effects of monetary integration in large, mature economies: a primer on the European Monetary Union

Lucio Vinhas de Souza

1136: Steuerbefreiung für Biokraftstoffe: Ist Bio-Ethanol wirklich eine klimapolitische Option?

Jan Michael Henke, Gernot Klepper and Jens Netzel

1135: European integration and the case for compensatory regional policy

Christiane Krieger-Boden

1134: Weshalb die Europäische Währungsunion den Stabilitätspakt braucht

Horst Siebert

1133: Trading hot air: the influence of permit allocation rules, market power and the US withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol

Gernot Klepper and Sonja Peterson

1132: Alternative Paths Towards EMU: Lessons from an Expanded Mundell-Fleming Model for the Accession Countries

Lucio Vinhas de Souza and Elisabeth Ledrut

1131: Consumer preferences and the reliability of Euler equation tests of capital mobility: some simulation-based evidence

Christian Pierdzioch, Joerg Doepke and Claudia Buch

1130: Worker Remittances and Capital Flows

Claudia Buch, Anja Kuckulenz and Marie-Helene Le Manchec

1129: Business Cycle Volatility in Germany

Claudia Buch, Joerg Doepke and Christian Pierdzioch

1128: To what extent can foreign direct investment help achieve international development goals?

Peter Nunnenkamp

1127: Finanzhilfen der Bundesländer: eine Aktualisierung

Astrid Rosenschon

1126: Post-reform trends in wage inequality: the case of urban Bolivia

Susan Steiner and Julius Spatz

1125: Towards a European constitution: fiscal federalism and the allocation of economic competences

Jürgen Stehn

1124: Bestimmungsgründe deutscher Direktinvestitionen in Entwicklungs- und Reformländern: hat sich wirklich etwas verändert?

Thomas Jost and Peter Nunnenkamp

1123: Price incentives, non-price factors, and agricultural production in Sub-Saharan Africa: a cointegration analysis

Rainer Thiele

1122: Determinants of FDI in developing countries: has globalization changed the rules of the game?

Peter Nunnenkamp

1121: Financial Openness and Business Cycle Volatility

Christian Pierdzioch, Jörg Döpke and Claudia Buch

1120: Path dependencies in venture capital markets

Andrea Schertler

1119: Under what conditions do venture capital markets emerge

Andrea Schertler

1118: Comparative Advantages of Public Loan and Public Equity Schemes in Venture Capital Markets

Andrea Schertler

1117: Venture Capitalists Investment Incentives Under Public Equity Schemes

Andrea Schertler

1116: Halving poverty by doubling aid: how well founded is the optimism of the World Bank?

Rolf Langhammer

1115: Financial Market Integration and Business Cycle Volatility in a Monetary Union

Christian Pierdzioch

1114: Regulatory choices and commitment: challenges for electricity market regulation in Kosovo

Lars Kumkar

1113: Die Entwicklungschancen Lateinamerikas: Ein Blick über die Argentinien-Krise hinaus

Rainer Schweickert

1112: Die Reform der deutschen Arbeitslosenversicherung vor dem Hintergrund ihrer Geschichte

Klaus Schrader and Hans H. Glismann

1111: "Schlusslicht Deutschland": Was können die Unterschiede in der Finanzpolitik erklären?

Alfred Boss

1110: Capital Mobility, Consumption Substitutability, and the Effectiveness of Monetary Policy in Open Economies

Christian Pierdzioch

1109: Exchange Rate Expectations Redux and Monetary Policy

Christian Pierdzioch

1108: The Accuracy of Press Reports Regarding the Foreign Exchange Interventions of the Bank of Japan

Michael Frenkel, Christian Pierdzioch and Georg Stadtmann

1107: Business Cycle Volatility and Globalization: A Survey

Claudia Buch

1106: An iron law of currency crisis: the divergence of the nominal and the real exchange rate and increasing current account deficits

Horst Siebert

1105: The Relationship between Bank Capital, Risk-Taking, and Capital Regulation: A Review of the Literature

Stephanie Stolz

1104: Trade and the Internationalization of Production

Joern Kleinert

1103: Shooting the messenger of good news: a critical look at the World Bank's success story of effective aid

Peter Nunnenkamp

1102: The bias against agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa: Has it survived 20 years of structural adjustment programs?

Rainer Thiele

1101: Multivariate Cointegration Analysis of Aggregate Exports: Empirical Evidence for the United States, Canada, and Germany

Hubert Strauß

1100: Macroeconomic impacts of external shocks and anti-shock policies in Bolivia: a CGE analysis

Luis Carlos Jemio and Manfred Wiebelt

1099: Class-Size Effects in School Systems Around the World: Evidence from Between-Grade Variation in TIMSS

Martin R. West and Ludger Wößmann

1098: European fiscal policies under the stability pact - some first insights

Harmen Lehment

1097: Das kalifornische Strommarktdebakel: von Liberalisierungsversprechen und Regulierungsversagen

Lars Kumkar

1096: Keynesian and monetarist views on the German unemployment problem: theory and evidence

Jan Gottschalk

1095: Reservation wages, offered wages, and unemployment duration: new empirical evidence

Björn Christensen

1094: Constructing a social accounting matrix with a distributional focus: the case of Bolivia

Rainer Thiele and Daniel Piazolo

1093: Globalization of the automobile industry: traditional locations under pressure?

Julius Spatz and Peter Nunnenkamp

1092: Causes and consequences of merger waves

Joern Kleinert and Henning Klodt

1091: Why economic growth trends differ so much across developing countries: the globalization debate and its relevance to Pakistan

Peter Nunnenkamp

1090: Monetary Policy Rules and Oil Price Shocks

Christian Pierdzioch and Christophe Kamps

1089: Geldpolitik und vorausschauende Taylor-Regeln: Theorie und Empirie am Beispiel der Deutschen Bundesbank

Christian Pierdzioch and Christophe Kamps

1088: European integration and changing trade patterns: the case of the Baltic states

Claus-Friedrich Laaser and Klaus Schrader

1087: Venture Capital in Europe's Common Market: A Quantitative Description

Andrea Schertler

1086: Markov or not Markov - this should be a question

Frank Bickenbach and Eckhardt Bode

1085: Institutional Effects in a Simple Model of Educational Production

Ludger Wößmann and John H. Bishop