Ruhr Economic Papers

From RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Ruhr-University Bochum, TU Dortmund University, University of Duisburg-Essen
Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics ().

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.

342: A Theory of Child Adoption

Dirk Bethmann and Michael Kvasnicka

341: The Relationship between Quality and Hospital Case Volume – An Empirical Examination with German Data

Corinna Hentschker and Roman Mennicken

340: Oil Price Effects on Land Use Competition – An Empirical Analysis

Matthias Diermeier and Torsten Schmidt

339: Do Coalitions Really Cause Larger Government Expenditures? – Mixed Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Sebastian Garmann

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

Ansgar Belke, Christian Dreger and Richard Ochmann

337: The Costs of Babylon – Linguistic Distance in Applied Economics

Ingo Isphording and Sebastian Otten

336: A Political Winner's Curse: Why Preventive Policies Pass Parliament so Narrowly

Philipp an de Meulen and Christian Bredemeier

335: Heterogeneity in the Effect of Home Energy Audits – Theory and Evidence

Manuel Frondel and Colin Vance

334: Empirical Evidence on the Generalized Taylor Principle

Mario Jovanovic

333: Item Nonresponse in Wages: Testing for Biased Estimates in Wage Equations

Michael Fertig and Katja Görlitz

332: Call Me if You Can – An Experimental Investigation of Information Sharing in Knowledge Networks

Christoph Helbach, Klemens Keldenich, Michael Rothgang and Guanzhong Yang

331: P4P, Reputation and the Reduction of Costly Overprovision

Nadja Kairies

330: Public Self-Insurance and the Samaritan's Dilemma in a Federation

Tim Lohse and Julio Robledo

329: Minimum Wages as a Barrier to Entry – Evidence from Germany

Ronald Bachmann, Thomas Bauer and Hanna Kröger

328: Teaching in the Lab: Financial Incentives in the Education Process

Christoph Helbach and Klemens Keldenich

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

Ansgar Belke, Matthias Goecke and Martin Guenther

326: A New Outside Option Value for Networks: The Kappa-Value – Measuring Distribution of Power of Political Agreements

Julia Belau

325: A Recipe for Success? Randomized Free Distribution of Improved Cooking Stoves in Senegal

Gunther Bensch and Jörg Peters

324: Revealed Preference and Nonparametric Analysis – Continuous Extensions and Recoverability

Jan Heufer

323: Effects of Global Liquidity on Commodity and Food Prices

Ansgar Belke, Ingo G. Bordon and Ulrich Volz

322: Group Membership and Communication in Modified Dictator Games

Klemens Keldenich

321: Patient Preferences and Treatment Thresholds under Diagnostic Risk – An Economic Laboratory Experiment

Miriam Krieger and Thomas Mayrhofer

320: Gender Differences in Further Training Participation – The Role of Individuals, Households and Firms

Claudia Burgard

319: Are My Neighbours Ageing Yet? Local Dimensions of Demographic Change in German Cities

Uwe Neumann

318: Like Father, Like Son: Inheriting and Bequeathing

Lars Kunze

317: Pricing Synthetic CDOs Using a Three Regime Random-Factor-Loading Model

Philip Messow

316: Wage Differentials by Field of Study – The Case of German University Graduates

Katja Görlitz and Barbara Grave

315: Lottery versus All-Pay Auction Contests – A Revenue Dominance Theorem

Jörg Franke, Christian Kanzow, Wolfgang Leininger and Alexandra Schwartz

314: Heterogeneity in the Correlates of Motorized and Non-Motorized Travel in Germany – The Intervening Role of Gender

Vivien Procher and Colin Vance

313: Board Accountability and Risk Taking in Banking – Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment

Tobias Körner

312: How Do the Unemployed Search for a Job? – Evidence from the EU Labour Force Survey

Ronald Bachmann and Daniel Baumgarten

311: Does Cluster Policy Trigger R&D Activity? – Evidence from German Biotech Contests

Dirk Engel, Timo Mitze, Roberto Patuelli and Janina Reinkowski

310: Structural Change and Spurious Persistence in Stochastic Volatility

Walter Krämer and Philip Messow

309: On Interaction Effects: The Case of Heckit and Two-Part Models

Manuel Frondel and Colin Vance

308: The Spatial Dimension of Trade- and FDI-driven Productivity Growth in Chinese Provinces – A Global Cointegration Approach

Selin Özyurt and Timo Mitze

307: Revisiting the Complementarity between Education and Training – The Role of Personality, Working Tasks and Firm Effects

Katja Görlitz and Marcus Tamm

306: Combating Deforestation? – Impacts of Improved Stove Dissemination on Charcoal Consumption in Urban Senegal

Gunther Bensch and Jörg Peters

305: Decomposing the Ins and Outs of Cyclical Unemployment

Ronald Bachmann and Mathias Sinning

304: In Absolute or Relative Terms? How Framing Prices Affects the Consumer Price Sensitivity of Health Plan Choice

Hendrik Schmitz and Nicolas Ziebarth

303: Energy Consumption and Economic Growth Revisited: Structural Breaks and Cross-section Dependence

Frauke Dobnik

302: Fall Risk Increasing Drugs: The Effect on Injuries of the Frail Elderly Estimated from Administrative Data

Thomas Bauer, Katharina Lindenbaum, Magdalena A. Stroka, Susanne Ahrens, Roland Linder and Frank Verheyen

301: The Forecasting Performance of an Estimated Medium Run Model

Tobias Kitlinski and Torsten Schmidt

300: When Did We Begin to Spell ""Heteros*edasticity"" Correctly?

Alfredo Paloyo

299: Demographics and Factor Flows – A Political Economy Approach

Lena Calahorrano and Philipp an de Meulen

298: Labor Heterogeneity and the Risk of Expropriation in Less Developed Countries

Philipp an de Meulen

297: You Don't Know what You've got till It's Gone! Unemployment and Intertemporal Changes in Self-Reported Life Satisfaction

Marcus Klemm

296: Financial Uncertainty in Germany and its Impact on Western European Terrorism

Mario Jovanovic

295: Health Effects of Temporary Jobs in Europe

Christoph Ehlert and Sandra Schaffner

294: Forecasting House Prices in Germany

Philipp an de Meulen, Martin Micheli and Torsten Schmidt

293: The Washroom Game

Jan Heufer