Ruhr Economic Papers

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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

158: In Vino Veritas: The Economics of Drinking

Jan Heufer

157: Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme in the Context of the Health MDGs – An Empirical Evaluation Using Propensity Score Matching

Joseph Mensah, Joseph R. Oppong and Christoph Schmidt

156: Economic Impacts from the Promotion of Renewable Energy Technologies - The German Experience

Manuel Frondel, Nolan Ritter, Christoph Schmidt and Colin Vance

155: Forecasting Private Consumption: Survey-based Indicators vs. Google Trends

Torsten Schmidt and Simeon Vosen

154: Why Are More Boys Born During War? - Evidence from Germany at Mid Century

Dirk Bethmann and Michael Kvasnicka

153: Do Parents Buy Their Children's Attention?

Annika Meng

152: Informal Home Care and Labor Force Participation of Household Members

Annika Meng

151: Female Hires and the Success of Start-up Firms

Andrea Weber and Christine Zulehner

150: Triggers and Determinants of Severe Household Indebtedness in Germany

Matthias Keese

149: Women's Fertility and Employment Decisions under Two Political Systems - Comparing East and West Germany before Reunification

Julia Bredtmann, Jochen Kluve and Sandra Schaffner

148: When Does It Hurt? The Exchange Rate ""Pain Threshold"" for German Exports

Ansgar Belke, Matthias Goecke and Martin Guenther

147: Real Convergence, Capital Flows, and Competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe

Ansgar Belke, Gunther Schnabl and Holger Zemanek

146: Competition and Gender Prejudice: Are Discriminatory Employers Doomed to Fail?

Andrea Weber and Christine Zulehner

145: Now Daddy's Changing Diapers and Mommy's Making Her Career - Evaluating a Generous Parental Leave Regulation Using a Natural Experiment

Jochen Kluve and Marcus Tamm

144: The Effect of Subsidizing Continuous Training Investments - Evidence from German Establishment Data

Katja Görlitz

143: Public Policy and Success of Business Start-ups in Germany

Verena Eckl, Michael Rothgang and Friederike Welter

142: Co-pay and Feel Okay: Evidence of Illusory Health Gains from a Health Insurance Reform

Alfredo Paloyo

141: Evaluating the Labor-Market Effects of Compulsory Military Service - A Regression-Discontinuity Approach

Thomas Bauer, Stefan Bender, Alfredo Paloyo and Christoph Schmidt

140: Taxing Education in Ramsey's Tradition

Wolfram Richter

139: Labor Force Status Dynamics in the German Labor Market - Individual Heterogeneity and Cyclical Sensitivity

Jochen Kluve, Sandra Schaffner and Christoph Schmidt

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

Manuel Frondel and Colin Vance

137: Neighborhood Diversity and the Appreciation of Native- and Immigrant-Owned Homes

Deborah Cobb-Clark and Mathias Sinning

136: Evaluating Rural Electrification Projects - Methodological Approaches

Jörg Peters

135: The Importance of Global Shocks for National Policy Makers - Rising Challenges for Central Banks

Ansgar Belke and Andreas Rees

134: How Stable Are Monetary Models of the Dollar-Euro Exchange Rate? - A Time-varying Coefficient Approach

Joscha Beckmann, Ansgar Belke and Michael Kühl