Ruhr Economic Papers

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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

133: Does the ECB Rely on a Taylor Rule? - Comparing Ex-post with Real Time Data

Ansgar Belke and Jens Klose

132: Does Higher Cost Inefficiency Imply Higher Profit Inefficiency? - Evidence on Inefficiency and Ownership of German Hospitals

Annika Herr, Hendrik Schmitz and Boris Augurzky

131: Prospective NATO or EU Membership and Institutional Change in Transition Countries

Ansgar Belke, Ingo G. Bordon, Inna Melnykovska and Rainer Schweickert

130: Effort Maximization in Asymmetric N-person Contest Games

Jörg Franke, Christian Kanzow, Wolfgang Leininger and Alexandra Väth

129: Benefiting from Publicly Funded Pre-competitive Research – Differences between Insiders and Outsiders

Verena Eckl and Dirk Engel

128: A Simple Model of an Oil Based Global Savings Glut – The "China Factor" and the OPEC Cartel

Ansgar Belke and Daniel Gros

127: Aid, Spending Strategies and Productivity Effects – A Multi-sectoral CGE Analysis for Zambia

Volker Clausen and Hannah Schürenberg-Frosch

126: Private Equity, Investment and Financial Constraints – Firm-Level Evidence for France and the United Kingdom

Dirk Engel and Joel Stiebale

125: Deciding Who Works Where – An Analysis of the Distribution of Work within Native and Immigrant Families in Australia

Leilanie Basilio

124: The Importance of Two-Sided Heterogeneity for the Cyclicality of Labour Market Dynamics

Ronald Bachmann and Peggy Bechara (née David)

123: Ownership and Financial Performance in the German Hospital Sector

Boris Augurzky, Dirk Engel, Christoph Schmidt and Christoph Schwierz

122: Nickel and Dimed German Style: The Working Poor in Germany

John P. Haisken-DeNew and Christoph Schmidt

121: Killing them with Kindness: Negative Distributional Externalities of Increasing UI Benefits

John P. Haisken-DeNew and Matthias Vorell

120: The Impact of Private versus Social Health Insurance on Offered Waiting Times in German Acute Care Hospitals

Christoph Schwierz, Ansgar Wübker and Björn A. Kuchinke

119: Determinants of Avoidable Deaths from Ischaemic Heart Diseases in East and West Germany

Christoph Schwierz and Ansgar Wübker

118: Heterogeneity in the Cyclical Sensitivity of Job-to-Job Flows

Sandra Schaffner

117: Social Jealousy and Stigma: Negative Externalities of Social Assistance Payments in Germany

Sonja C. Kassenböhmer and John P. Haisken-DeNew

116: Conflict Networks

Jörg Franke and Tahir Öztürk

115: An Interest Rate Peg Might Be Better than You Think

Markus Hörmann and Andreas Schabert

114: Dealing with Excessive Off-label Drug Use: Liability vs. Patent Prolongation

Stefan Felder and Anja Olbrich

113: Capital Taxation, Long-run Growth, and Bequests

Lars Kunze

112: Regional Differences in the Efficiency of Health Production: an Artefact of Spatial Dependence?

Stefan Felder and Harald Tauchmann

111: Export, FDI and Productivity – Evidence for French Firms

Dirk Engel and Vivien Procher

110: Housing, Energy Cost, and the Poor – Counteracting Effects in Germany's Housing Allowance Program

Peter Grösche

109: The Purpose of Remittances – Evidence from Germany

Thomas Bauer and Mathias Sinning

108: International Outsourcing, the Nature of Tasks, and Occupational Stability – Empirical Evidence for Germany

Daniel Baumgarten

107: The Impact of Demographic Change on Human Capital Accumulation

Michael Fertig, Christoph Schmidt and Mathias Sinning

106: Expansion in Markets with Decreasing Demand – For-Profits in the German Hospital Industry

Christoph Schwierz

105: Does the Quality of Hospital Treatment Vary by Days of the Week?

Christoph Schwierz, Boris Augurzky and Juergen Wasem

104: Measuring Energy Supply Risks: A G7 Ranking

Manuel Frondel, Nolan Ritter and Christoph Schmidt

103: Driving for Fun? – A Comparison of Weekdays and Weekend Travel

Manuel Frondel and Colin Vance

102: Global Liquidity and Commodity Prices – A Cointegrated VAR Approach for OECD Countries

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

101: De-Industrialisation, Entrepreneurial Industries and Welfare

Albert Schweinberger and Jens Suedekum

100: Agglomeration Effects and the Location of Foreign Direct Investment – Evidence from French First-time Movers

Vivien Procher

99: Identifying Free-Riding in Energy-Conservation Programs Using Revealed Preference Data

Peter Grösche, Christoph Schmidt and Colin Vance

98: The Impact of a Large Parental Leave Benefit Reform on the Timing of Birth around the Day of Implementation

Marcus Tamm

97: Child Benefit Reform and Labor Market Participation

Marcus Tamm

96: Internal Migration, Regional Labour Market Dynamics and Implications for German East-West Disparities – Results from a Panel VAR

Björn Alecke, Timo Mitze and Gerhard Untiedt

95: Life-Cycle Variations in the Association between Current and Lifetime Earnings – Evidence for German Natives and Guest Workers

Jan Brenner

94: Does Government Ideology Matter in Monetary Policy? – A Panel Data Analysis for OECD Countries

Ansgar Belke and Niklas Potrafke

93: Men,Women, and the Ballot – Woman Suffrage in the United States

Sebastian Braun and Michael Kvasnicka

92: Product Variety, Price Elasticity of Demand and Fixed Cost in Spatial Models

Yiquan Gu and Tobias Wenzel

91: Household Labor Supply and Home Services in a General-Equilibrium Model with Heterogeneous Agents

Christian Bredemeier and Falko Jüßen

90: Financing Social Security by Taxing Capital Income – A Bad Idea?

Lars Kunze and Christiane Schuppert

89: Tax Policy and CO2 Emissions – An Econometric Analysis of the German Automobile Market

Colin Vance and Markus Mehlin

88: Fiscal Stimulus Packages and Uncertainty in Times of Crisis – The Option of Waiting Can Be Valuable, Though!

Ansgar Belke

87: The Development of Employers' Training Investments Over Time – A Decomposition Analysis Using German Establishment Data

Katja Goerlitz

86: Active Labor Market Policy Evaluations – A Meta-analysis

David Card, Jochen Kluve and Andrea Weber