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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

14132: Spillovers in networks of user generated content: Pseudo-experimental evidence on Wikipedia

Michael Kummer

14131: Money and privacy: Android market evidence

Michael Kummer and Patrick Schulte

14130: Overqualification of graduates: Assessing the role of family background

Daniel Erdsiek

14129: Susceptibility and influence in social media word-of-mouth

Jörg Claussen, Benjamin Engelstätter and Michael Ward

14128r: Peer effects in collaborative content generation: The evidence from German Wikipedia

Olga Slivko

14128: Peer effects in collaborative content generation: The evidence from German Wikipedia

Olga Slivko

14127: The identification of directed technical change revisited

Marianne Saam

14126: Haircut size, haircut type and the probability of serial sovereign debt restructurings

Christoph Schröder

14125: The sorting of female careers after first birth: A competing risks analysis of maternity leave duration

Melanie Arntz, Stephan Dlugosz and Ralf Wilke

14124: Multidimensional affluence in income and wealth in the eurozone: A cross country comparison using the HFCS

Sine Kontbay-Busun and Andreas Peichl

14123: What drives the demand of monetary financial institutions for domestic government bonds? Empirical evidence on the impact of Basel II and Basel III

Michael Lang and Michael Schröder

14122: Real-time macro monitoring and fiscal policy

Eduardo Ley and Florian Misch

14121: On the effects of unilateral environmental policy on offshoring in multi-stage production processes

Oliver Schenker, Simon Koesler and Andreas Löschel

14120: Intangible assets and firm-level productivity

Dirk Crass and Bettina Peters

14119: The impact of brand use on innovation performance: Empirical results for Germany

Dirk Crass

14118: Which firms use trademarks - and why? Representative firm-level evidence from Germany

Dirk Crass

14117: ICT and economic growth: Comparing developing, emerging and developed countries

Thomas Niebel

14116: Entry and shakeout in dynamic oligopoly

Paul Hünermund, Philipp Schmidt-Dengler and Yuya Takahashi

14115: Does the mobility of R&D labor increase innovation?

Ulrich Kaiser, Hans Christian Kongsted and Thomas Rønde

14114: Tax planning of R&D intensive multinationals

Jost H. Heckemeyer, Katharina Richter-Weiss and Christoph Spengel

14113: Age and skill bias of trade liberalisation? Heterogeneous employment effects of EU Eastern Enlargement

Jan Fries

14112: Gemeinsame Körperschaftsteuer-Bemessungsgrundlage in der EU: Konkretisierung der Gewinnermittlungsprinzipien und Weiterentwicklungen

Maria Theresia Evers, Katharina Finke, Melanie Köstler, Ina Meier, Wolfram Scheffler and Christoph Spengel

14111: Effective tax rates under IP tax planning

Lisa Evers and Christoph Spengel

14110: Overleveraging, financial fragility and the banking-macro link: Theory and empirical evidence

Stefan Mittnik and Willi Semmler

14109: Maternity leave and mothers' long-term sickness absence: Evidence from Germany

Nicole Guertzgen and Karsten Hank

14108r: R&D partnerships and innovation performance: Can there be too much of a good thing?

Hanna Hottenrott and Cindy Lopes-Bento

14108: R&D partnerships and innovation performance: Can there be too much of a good thing?

Hanna Hottenrott and Cindy Lopes-Bento

14107: Direct and cross-scheme effects in a research and development subsidy program

Hanna Hottenrott, Cindy Lopes-Bento and Reinhilde Veugelers

14106: Radical or incremental: Where does R&D policy hit?

Mathias Beck, Cindy Lopes-Bento and Andrea Schenker-Wicki

14105: Investigating the influence of firm characteristics on the ability to exercise market power: A stochastic frontier analysis approach with an application to the iron ore market

Robert Germeshausen, Timo Panke and Heike Wetzel

14104: The Mannheim Enterprise Panel (MUP) and firm statistics for Germany

Johannes Bersch, Sandra Gottschalk, Bettina Müller and Michaela Niefert

14103: China's R&D subsidies: Allocation and effectiveness

Philipp Boeing

14102: An international cohort comparison of size effects on job growth

Michael Anyadike-Danes, Carl Magnus Bjuggren, Sandra Gottschalk, Werner Hölzl, Dan Johansson, Mika Maliranta and Anja Myrann

14101: Reassessing competition concerns in electronic communications markets

Martin Peitz and Tommaso Valletti

14100: The effects of corporate and country sustainability characteristics on the cost of debt: An international investigation

Andreas Hoepner, Ioannis Oikonomou, Bert Scholtens and Michael Schröder

14099: Overlapping political budget cycles in the legislative and the executive

Dirk Foremny, Ronny Freier, Marc-Daniel Moessinger and Mustafa Yeter

14098: The long-term impact of matching and rebate subsidies when public goods are impure: Field experimental evidence from the carbon offsetting market

Martin Kesternich, Andreas Löschel and Daniel Römer

14097: Knowing that you matter, matters! The interplay of meaning, monetary incentives, and worker recognition

Michael Kosfeld, Susanne Neckermann and Xiaolan Yang

14096: A field experiment in motivating employee ideas

Michael Gibbs, Susanne Neckermann and Christoph Siemroth

14095: An unemployment insurance scheme for the euro area? A comparison of different alternatives using micro data

Mathias Dolls, Clemens Fuest, Dirk Neumann and Andreas Peichl

14094: University research alliances, absorptive capacity, and the contribution of startups to employment growths

Andrew A. Toole, Dirk Czarnitzki and Christian Rammer

14093: Information ambiguity and firm value

Katrin Hussinger and Sebastian Pacher

14092: Specifying parameters in computable general equilibrium models using optimal fingerprint detection methods

Simon Koesler

14091: Staging innovation projects: (when) does it pay off?

Petra Andries and Paul Hünermund

14090: How do employment tax credits work? An analysis of the German inheritance tax

Benedikt Franke, Dirk Simons and Dennis Voeller

14089: Are there long-term earnings scars from youth unemployment in Germany?

Joachim Möller and Matthias Umkehrer

14088: Physical activity of adults: A survey of correlates, determinants, and effects

Charlotte Cabane and Michael Lechner

14087: Bargaining in vertical relationships and suppliers' R&D profitability

Christian Köhler

14086: Combining international cap-and-trade with national carbon taxes

Peter Heindl, Peter J. Wood and Frank Jotzo

14085: The impact of regulation and competition on the migration from old to new communications infrastructure: Recent evidence from EU27 member states

Wolfgang Briglauer

14084: The discontent cartel member and cartel collapse: The case of the German cement cartel

Joseph E. Harrington, Kai Hüschelrath, Ulrich Laitenberger and Florian Smuda

14083: Unemployment and labor reallocation in Europe

Jan Hogrefe and Andreas Sachs

14082: The generalized Roy model and the cost-benefit analysis of social programs

Philipp Eisenhauer, James Heckman and Edward Vytlacil

14081: Estimation of dynamic discrete choice models by maximum likelihood and the simulated method of moments

Philipp Eisenhauer and James Heckman

14080: Youth unemployment in the OECD: The role of institutions

Andreas Sachs and Werner Smolny

14079: Housing and health

Stefan Angel and Benjamin Bittschi

14078: Sufficient statistic or not? The elasticity of taxable income in the presence of deduction possibilities

Philipp Doerrenberg, Andreas Peichl and Sebastian Siegloch

14077: Intergenerational transmission of unemployment: Evidence for German sons

Miriam Mäder, Steffen Müller, Regina Riphahn and Caroline Schwientek

14076: Field of study, qualification mismatch, and wages: Does sorting matter?

Francesco Berlingieri and Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage

14075: Improving voluntary public good provision by a non-governmental, endogenous matching mechanism: Experimental evidence

Christiane Reif, Dirk Rübbelke and Andreas Löschel

14074: Who is afraid of the asset quality review? Potential losses and capital shortfalls in the European banking system

Thomas Bonczek, Clemens Fuest and Michael Schröder

14073: Extending taxation of interest and royalty income at source: An option to limit base erosion and profit shifting?

Katharina Finke, Clemens Fuest, Hannah Nusser and Christoph Spengel

14072: Invalid but infringed? An analysis of Germany's bifurcated patent litigation system

Katrin Cremers, Fabian Gaessler, Dietmar Harhoff and Christian Helmers

14071: Combining technology and work organization: An analysis of complementarity between IT and decentralization across firms of different size

Fabienne Rasel

14070: Are intangibles more productive in ICT-intensive industries? Evidence from EU countries

Wen Chen, Thomas Niebel and Marianne Saam

14069: Short-run fertility effects of parental leave benefits: Evidence from a structural model

Holger Stichnoth

14068: Completed fertility effects of family policy measures: Evidence from a life-cycle model

Raphael Abiry, Karsten Reuß and Holger Stichnoth