Ruhr Economic Papers

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208: A monthly consumption indicator for Germany based on internet search query data

Torsten Schmidt and Simeon Vosen

207: The Euro Area Crisis Management Framework – Consequences and Institutional Follow-ups

Ansgar Belke

206: Compulsory Military Service in Germany Revisited

Alfredo Paloyo

205: Network Dependency in Migration Flows – A Space-time Analysis for Germany since Re-unification

Timo Mitze

204: Effectiveness of Public R&D Subsidies in East Germany – Is it a Matter of Firm Size?

Janina Reinkowski, Björn Alecke, Timo Mitze and Gerhard Untiedt

203: Are You Well Prepared for Long-term Care? – Assessing Financial Gaps in Private German Care Provision

Matthias Keese, Annika Meng and Reinhold Schnabel

202: Taxing Human Capital: A Good Idea

Christoph Braun

201: Information or Institution? – On the Determinants of Forecast Accuracy

Roland Döhrn and Christoph Schmidt

200: The Intra-household Division of Labor – An Empirical Analysis of Spousal Influences on Individual Time Allocation

Julia Bredtmann

199: Strategic Technology Investments in Open Economies

Anna Eulerich, geb. Bohnstedt and Christian Schwarz

198: Is there a Future for Small Hospitals in Germany?

Boris Augurzky and Hendrik Schmitz

197: Continuous Training and Wages – An Empirical Analysis Using a Comparison-group Approach

Katja Görlitz

196: Parasites and Raven Mothers: A German-Japanese Comparison on (Lone) Motherhood

Anna Klabunde and Evelyn Korn

195: External Effects of Education: Human Capital Spillovers in Regions and Firms

Thomas Bauer and Matthias Vorell

194: Driven by the Markets? ECB Sovereign Bond Purchases and the Securities Markets Programme

Ansgar Belke

193: Home Firm Performance after Foreign Investments and Divestitures

Dirk Engel and Vivien Procher

192: The Asymmetries of a Small World: Entry Into and Withdrawal From International Markets by French Firms

Dirk Engel, Vivien Procher and Christoph Schmidt

191: Rural Electrification and Fertility – Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire

Jörg Peters and Colin Vance

190: Energy Consumption and Economic Growth – New Insights into the Cointegration Relationship

Ansgar Belke, Christian Dreger and Frauke de Haan

189: Rural Electrification and Manufacturing Firm Performance in Benin – An Ex-Ante Impact Assessment

Jörg Peters, Colin Vance and Marek Harsdorff

188: Labour Market Entry Conditions, Wages and Job Mobility

Ronald Bachmann, Thomas Bauer and Peggy Bechara (née David)

187: Risky Business – The Role of Individual Risk Attitudes in Occupational Choice

Ingo Isphording

186: Heterogeneity in the Intergenerational Transmission of Alcohol Consumption – A Quantile Regression Approach

Christoph Schmidt and Harald Tauchmann

185: Does Affirmative Action Reduce Effort Incentives? – A Contest Game Analysis

Jörg Franke

184: How Much Fiscal Backing Must the ECB Have? – The Euro Area is not the Philippines

Ansgar Belke

183: Financial Crisis, Global Liquidity and Monetary Exit Strategies

Ansgar Belke

182: Land Conversion and Market Equilibrium – Insights from a Simulated Landscape

Richard Iovanna and Colin Vance

181: The Regional Economic Effects of Military Base Realignments and Closures in Germany

Alfredo Paloyo, Colin Vance and Matthias Vorell

180: One Last Puff? – Public Smoking Bans and Smoking Behavior

Silke Anger, Michael Kvasnicka and Thomas Siedler

179: Quasiconcave Preferences and Choices on a Probability Simplex – A Nonparametric Analysis

Jan Heufer

178: Wage and Employment Effects of Workplace Representation – A ""Right To Co-Manage"" Model

Yiquan Gu

177: Practice and Prospects of Medium-term Economic Forecasting

Helmut Hofer, Torsten Schmidt and Klaus Weyerstrass

176: Current Account Balances and Structural Adjustment in the Euro Area

Holger Zemanek, Ansgar Belke and Gunther Schnabl

175: European Monetary Policy and the ECB Rotation Model – Voting Power of the Core versus the Periphery

Ansgar Belke and Barbara von Schnurbein

174: Global Integration of Central and Eastern European Financial Markets – The Role of Economic Sentiments

Ansgar Belke, Joscha Beckmann and Michael Kühl

173: Public Smoking Bans, Youth Access Laws, and Cigarette Sales at Vending Machines

Michael Kvasnicka

172: Much Ado About Nothing? – Smoking Bans and Germany's Hospitality Industry

Michael Kvasnicka and Harald Tauchmann

171: Is Euro Area Money Demand (Still) Stable? – Cointegrated VAR versus Single Equation Techniques

Ansgar Belke and Robert Czudaj

170: The Effect of Saving Subsidies on Household Saving – Evidence from Germanys

Giacomo Corneo, Matthias Keese and Carsten Schröder

169: Who Feels Constrained by High Debt Burdens? – Subjective vs. Objective Measures of Household Indebtedness

Matthias Keese

168: Long-term Care Responsibility and its Opportunity Costs

Annika Meng

167: Monetary Policy, Global Liquidity and Commodity Price Dynamics

Ansgar Belke, Ingo G. Bordon and Torben W. Hendricks

166: (How) Do the ECB and the Fed React to Financial Market Uncertainty? – The Taylor Rule in Times of Crisis

Ansgar Belke and Jens Klose

165: Demographic Change and the Labour Share of Income

Torsten Schmidt and Simeon Vosen

164: Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation – An Analysis for Germany

Leilanie Basilio and Thomas Bauer

163: Moral Hazard in a Mutual Health-Insurance System: German Knappschaften, 1867–1914

Timothy Guinnane and Jochen Streb

162: The Effect of Self-assessed Job Security on the Demand for Medical Rehab

Boris Augurzky, Arndt Reichert and Harald Tauchmann

161: The Impact of Foreign Acquisitions on the Investors' R&D Activities – Firm-level Evidence

Joel Stiebale

160: Fixed, Random, or Something in Between? – A Variant of HAUSMAN's Specification Test for Panel Data Estimators

Manuel Frondel and Colin Vance

159: The Effects of Cross-border M&As on the Acquirers' Domestic Performance – Firm-level Evidence

Joel Stiebale and Michaela Trax