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15090: Mobile and more productive? Firm-level evidence on the productivity effects of mobile internet use

Irene Bertschek and Thomas Niebel

15089: Does Wikipedia matter? The effect of Wikipedia on tourist choices

Marit Hinnosaar, Toomas Hinnosaar, Michael Kummer and Olga Slivko

15088: Does skill-biased technical change diffuse internationally?

Patrick Schulte

15087: Mobile information and communication technologies, flexible work organization and labor productivity: Firm-level evidence

Steffen Viete and Daniel Erdsiek

15086: ICT and global sourcing: Evidence for German manufacturing and service firms

Fabienne Rasel

15085: Student employment: Advantage or handicap for academic achievement?

Maresa Sprietsma

15084: Inequality of income acquisition: The role of childhood circumstances

Paul Hufe, Andreas Peichl, John Roemer and Martin Ungerer

15083: Dynamic R&D choice and the impact of the firm's financial strength

Bettina Peters, Mark Roberts and Van Anh Vuong

15082: Tax competition in Europe: Europe in competition with other world regions?

Frank Streif

15081: Let's stay in touch - evidence on the role of social learning in local tax interactions

Sebastian Blesse and Thorsten Martin

15080: The power of individual-level drivers of inventive performance

Thomas Zwick, Katharina Frosch, Karin Hoisl and Dietmar Harhoff

15079: Second-best analysis of European energy policy: Is one bird in the hand worth two in the bush?

Michael Hübler, Oliver Schenker and Carolyn Fischer

15078r: Economic downturn and volunteering: Do economic crises affect content generation on Wikipedia?

Michael Kummer, Olga Slivko and Michael Zhang

15078: Economic downturn and volunteering: Do economic crises affect content generation on Wikipedia?

Michael Kummer, Olga Slivko and Michael Zhang

15077: How are work-related characteristics linked to sickness absence and presenteeism? Theory and data

Daniel Arnold and Marco De Pinto

15076: The impact of administrative transaction costs in the EU emissions trading system

Peter Heindl

15075: Zum Stromkonsum von Haushalten in Grundsicherung: Eine empirische Analyse für Deutschland

Gerd Aigeltinger, Peter Heindl, Verena Liessem, Daniel Römer, Clarita Schwengers and Claire Vogt

15074: Measuring the use of human resources practices and employee attitudes: The linked personnel panel

Patrick Kampkötter, Jens Mohrenweiser, Dirk Sliwka, Susanne Steffes and Stefanie Wolter

15073r: Konzeptionelle Lehren aus der ersten Evaluationsrunde der Branchenmindestlöhne in Deutschland

Annabelle Doerr and Bernd Fitzenberger

15073: Konzeptionelle Lehren aus der ersten Evaluationsrunde der Branchenmindestlöhne in Deutschland

Annabelle Doerr and Bernd Fitzenberger

15072: Electricity market integration and the impact of unilateral policy reforms

Luigi Grossi, Sven Heim, Kai Hüschelrath and Michael Waterson

15071: The perils of debt deflation in the euro area: A multi regime model

Willi Semmler and Alexander Haider

15070: Steuerpolitik in Deutschland: Eine Halbzeitbilanz der aktuellen Legislaturperiode im Kontext europäischer Entwicklungen

Rainer Bräutigam and Christoph Spengel

15069: The impact of the financial crisis on investments in innovative firms

Marek Giebel and Kornelius Kraft

15068: How can a country 'graduate' from procyclical fiscal policy? Evidence from China

Clemens Fuest and Jing Xing

15067: Disentangling irregular cycles in economic time series

Dominik Schober and Oliver Woll

15066: Legal and illegal cartels in the European cement industry

Nikolaus Fink and Stefan Frübing

15065: Refinancing under yardstick regulation with investment cycles: The case of long-lived electricity network assets

Dominik Schober and Christoph Weber

15064: The settlement procedure in EC cartel cases: An empirical assesment

Kai Hüschelrath and Ulrich Laitenberger

15063: The duration of the EC merger control process: Determinants and the impact of the 2004 merger regulation reform

Sven Heim, Kai Hüschelrath and Ulrich Laitenberger

15062: Competition in the German interurban bus industry: A snapshot two years after liberalization

Niklas S. Dürr and Kai Hüschelrath

15061: Deregulation, competition, and consolidation: The case of the German interurban bus industry

Niklas S. Dürr, Sven Heim and Kai Hüschelrath

15060: Information exchange through non-binding advance price announcements: An antitrust analysis

Willem Boshoff, Stefan Frübing and Kai Hüschelrath

15059: Balancing competition and cooperation: Evidence from transatlantic airline markets

Volodymyr Bilotkach and Kai Hüschelrath

15058: Did the introduction of the euro lead to money illusion? Empirical evidence from Germany

Benjamin Bittschi and Saskia Duppel

15057: Work-related ability as source of information advantages of training employers

Jens Mohrenweiser, Gaby Wydra-Sommaggio and Thomas Zwick

15056: Mean-risk hedging strategies in electricity markets with limited liquidity

Oliver Woll

15055: Decline of CFC rules and rise of IP boxes: How the ECJ affects tax competition and economic distortions in Europe

Rainer Bräutigam, Christoph Spengel and Frank Streif

15054: Vetoing and inaugurating policy like others do: Evidence on spatial interactions in voter initiatives

Zareh Asatryan, Annika Havlik and Frank Streif

15053: Does codetermination affect the composition of variable versus fixed parts of executive compensation?

Katharina Dyballa and Kornelius Kraft

15052: The impact of taxes on bilateral royalty flows

Olena Dudar, Christoph Spengel and Johannes Voget

15051: Measuring patent quality in international comparison: Index development and application to China

Philipp Boeing and Elisabeth Mueller

15050: Flying the nest: How the home department shapes researchers' career paths

Hanna Hottenrott and Cornelia Lawson

15049: Reforming the public administration: The role of crisis and the power of bureaucracy

Zareh Asatryan, Friedrich Heinemann and Hans Pitlik

15048: Facility- and service-based competition and investment in fixed broadband networks: Lessons from a decade of access regulations in the European Union member states

Wolfgang Briglauer, Klaus Gugler and Adhurim Haxhimusa

15047: Marital sorting, inequality and the role of female labor supply: Evidence from East and West Germany

Nico Pestel

15046: Revenue decentralization, central oversight and the political budget cycle: Evidence from Israel

Thushyanthan Baskaran, Sebastian Blesse, Adi Brender and Yaniv Reingewertz

15045: The influence of collective action on the demand for voluntary climate change mitigation in hypothetical and real situations

Bodo Sturm and Reinhard Uehleke

15044: Reconciling insurance with market discipline: A blueprint for a European fiscal union

Mathias Dolls, Clemens Fuest, Friedrich Heinemann and Andreas Peichl

15043: Generalised partially linear regression with misclassified data and an application to labour market transitions

Stephan Dlugosz, Enno Mammen and Ralf Wilke

15042: Shifting taxes from labor to consumption: More employment and more inequality

Nico Pestel and Eric Sommer

15041: German public finances through the financial crisis

Maximilian Blömer, Mathias Dolls, Clemens Fuest, Max Löffler and Andreas Peichl

15040: Spillover effects of labour market reforms in a three-country world

Claudia Fries

15039: A sequential decomposition of the drop in collective bargaining coverage

Bernd Fitzenberger and Katrin Sommerfeld

15038: Wages in high-tech start-ups: Do academic spin-offs pay a wage premium?

Matthias Dorner, Helmut Fryges and Kathrin Schopen

15037: Verteilungs- und Aufkommenswirkungen einer Integration des Solidaritätszuschlags in die Einkommensteuer

Clemens Fuest, Max Löffler, Andreas Peichl and Holger Stichnoth

15036: Life-cycle incidence of family policy measures in Germany: Evidence from a dynamic microsimulation model

Holger Bonin, Karsten Reuß and Holger Stichnoth

15035: A structural decomposition of global raw material consumption

Frank Pothen

15034: Accounting for the spouse when measuring inequality of opportunity

Andreas Peichl and Martin Ungerer

15033: Peer effects in language training for migrants

Maresa Sprietsma and Lisa Pfeil

15032: R&D policies for young SMEs: Input and output effects

Dirk Czarnitzki and Julie Delanote

15031: Does foreign direct investment synchronise business cycles? Results from a panel approach

Claudia Fries and Marcus Kappler

15030: Innovation budgeting over the business cycle and innovation performance

Martin Hud and Christian Rammer

15029: Forecaster overconfidence and market survey performance

Richard Deaves, Jin Lei and Michael Schröder

15028: Tax compliance and information provision: A field experiment with small firms

Philipp Doerrenberg and Jan Schmitz

15027: Are SRI funds conventional funds in disguise or do they live up to their name?

Christin Nitsche and Michael Schröder

15026: Politicians' promotion incentives and bank risk exposure in China

Li Wang, Lukas Menkhoff, Michael Schröder and Xian Xu

15025: A political economy of China's export restrictions on rare earth elements

Frank Pothen and Kilian Fink

15024: Aging and urban house prices

Norbert Hiller and Oliver Lerbs

15023: Does ownership affect the impact of taxes on firm behavior? Evidence from China

Clemens Fuest and Li Liu

15022: Mobility across firms and occupations among graduates from apprenticeship

Bernd Fitzenberger, Stefanie Licklederer and Hanna Zwiener

15021: How creative are you? An experimental study on self-selection in a competitive incentive scheme for creative performance

Christiane Bradler

15020: Escape routes from sovereign default risk in the euro area

Willi Semmler and Christian Proaño

15019: Dynamic properties of energy affordability measures

Peter Heindl and Rudolf Schüssler

15018: Good enough! Are socially responsible companies the more successful environmental innovators?

Christiane Reif and Sascha Rexhäuser

15017: Vote buying or (political) business (cycles) as usual?

Toke Aidt, Zareh Asatryan, Lusine Badalyan and Friedrich Heinemann

15016: Women on the board and executive duration: Evidence for European listed firms

Achim Buchwald and Hanna Hottenrott

15015: Does exchange of information between tax authorities influence multinationals' use of tax havens?

Julia Braun and Alfons Weichenrieder

15014: Taxing investments in the Asia-Pacific region: The importance of cross-border taxation and tax incentives

Verena Wiedemann and Katharina Finke

15013: The effect of electricity taxation on the German manufacturing sector: A regression discontinuity approach

Florens Flues and Benjamin Lutz

15012: Social implications of green growth policies from the perspective of energy sector reform and its impact on households

Peter Heindl and Andreas Löschel

15011: Peeling the onion: Analyzing aggregate, national and sectoral energy intensity in the European Union

Andreas Löschel, Frank Pothen and Michael Schymura

15010: Fiskalische und individuelle Bildungsrenditen: Aktuelle Befunde für Deutschland

Friedhelm Pfeiffer and Holger Stichnoth

15009: Minimum participation rules in international environmental agreements: Empirical evidence from a survey among delegates in international climate negotiations

Martin Kesternich

15008: Higher taxes, more evasion? Evidence from border differentials in TV license fees

Melissa Berger, Gerlinde Fellner-Röhling, Rupert Sausgruber and Christian Traxler

15007: Individual versus institutional ownership of university-discovered inventions

Dirk Czarnitzki, Thorsten Doherr, Katrin Hussinger, Paula Schliessler and Andrew A. Toole

15006: China's R&D explosion: Analyzing productivity effects across ownership types and over time

Philipp Boeing, Elisabeth Mueller and Philipp Sandner

15005: A note on how to realize the full potential of the EU-SILC data

Melissa Berger and Sandra Schaffner

15004: How do drug prices respond to a change from external to internal reference pricing? Evidence from a Danish regulatory reform

Ulrich Kaiser and Susan Mendez

15003: The impact of alternative public policies on the deployment of new communications infrastructure: A survey

Wolfgang Briglauer, Stefan Frübing and Ingo Vogelsang

15002: Candidate screening for the recruitment of critical research and development workers: A report and preliminary results with evidence from experimental data from German high-tech firms

Katharina Frosch, Dietmar Harhoff, Karin Hoisl, Christian Steinle and Thomas Zwick

15001: Individual determinants of inventor productivity: Report and preliminary results with evidence from linked human capital and patent data

Katharina Frosch, Dietmar Harhoff, Karin Hoisl, Christian Steinle and Thomas Zwick

1495: Unabhängigkeit und Verantwortlichkeit der Europäischen Zentralbank

Katrin Ullrich

1494: Semiparametric Estimation of Regression Functions Under Shape Invariance Restrictions

Ralf Wilke

1493: R&D and Subsidies at the Firm Level: An Application of Parametric and Semi-Parametric Two-Step Selection Models

Katrin Hussinger

1492: Incentive Problems in Banking Supervision: The European Case

Martin Schüler

1491: The Kyoto Protocol: A Review and Perspectives

Christoph Böhringer

1490: Lohndispersion und Arbeitslosigkeit: Neuere Ansätze in der Suchtheorie

Alfred Garloff

1415: The Determinants and Effects of Environmental Product Innovations - An Analysis on the Basis of Case Studies

Katharina Tuerpitz

14133: When the minimum wage bites back: Quantile treatment effects of a sectoral minimum wage in Germany

Terry Gregory