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11069: Vertical integration, separation and non-price discrimination: An empirical analysis of German electricity markets for residential customers

Vigen Nikogosian and Tobias Veith

11068: Strategic pricing, market entry and competition: Evidence from German electricity submarkets

Vigen Nikogosian and Tobias Veith

11067: The impact of cartelization on pricing dynamics: Evidence from the German cement industry

Kai Hüschelrath and Tobias Veith

11066: Cartel detection in procurement markets

Kai Hüschelrath and Tobias Veith

11065: Coordination under threshold uncertainty in a public goods game

Astrid Dannenberg, Andreas Löschel, Gabriele Paolacci, Christiane Reif and Alessandro Tavoni

11064: Industry-science connections in agriculture: Do public science collaborations and knowledge flows contribute to firm-level agricultural research productivity?

Andrew A. Toole and John L. King

11063: The impact of public basic research on industrial innovation: Evidence from the pharmaceutical industry

Andrew A. Toole

11062: Individual exchange rate forecasts and expected fundamentals

Christian Dick, Ronald MacDonald and Lukas Menkhoff

11061: University rankings in action? The importance of rankings and an excellence competition for university choice of high-ability students?

Julia Horstschräer

11060: General knowledge about climate change, factors influencing risk perception and willingness to insure

Claas Menny, Daniel Osberghaus, Max Pohl and Ute Werner

11059: Patterns and effects of entry in US airline markets

Kai Hüschelrath and Kathrin Müller

11058: Age and productivity: Sector differences?

Christian Göbel and Thomas Zwick

11057: Institutions and unemployment: Do interactions matter?

Andreas Sachs

11056: An assessment of the relationship between public real estate markets and stock markets at the local, regional, and global levels

Kim Liow and Felix Schindler

11055: An information economics perspective on main bank relationships and firm R&D

Daniel Hoewer, Tobias Schmidt and Wolfgang Sofka

11054: Who should pay for certification?

Konrad Stahl and Roland Strausz

11053: Innovation subsidies: Does the funding source matter for innovation intensity and performance? Empirical evidence from Germany

Dirk Czarnitzki and Cindy Lopes Bento

11052: The construction of a low cost airline network

Kai Hüschelrath, Kathrin Müller and Volodymyr Bilotkach

11051: Low cost carriers and the evolution of the US airline industry

Kai Hüschelrath and Kathrin Müller

11050: Implications of inequality aversion for international climate policy

Carsten Vogt and Bodo Sturm

11049: Impacts of parental health on children's development of personality traits and problem behavior: Evidence from parental health shocks

G. Brant Morefield, Andrea Mühlenweg and Franz Westermaier

11048: In search for the not-invented-here syndrome: The role of knowledge sources and firm success

Katrin Hussinger and Annelies Wastyn

11047: Separating wheat and chaff: age-specific staffing strategies and innovative performance at the firm level (Den Weizen von der Spreu trennen: Altersbezogene Personalpolitik und Innovationen auf der Betriebsebene)

Katharina Frosch, Christian Göbel and Thomas Zwick

11046: Why training older employees is less effective

Thomas Zwick

11045: Intrinsic work motivation and pension reform acceptance

Friedrich Heinemann, Tanja Hennighausen and Marc-Daniel Moessinger

11044: 'Wacky' patents meet economic indicators

Dirk Czarnitzki, Katrin Hussinger and Cédric Schneider

11043: A practical approach to offset permits in post Kyoto climate policy

Peter Heindl and Sebastian Voigt

11042: Understanding the effects of violent video games on violent crime

Scott Cunningham, Benjamin Engelstätter and Michael Ward

11041: Growth and welfare maximization in models of public finance and endogenous growth

Florian Misch, Norman Gemmell and Richard Kneller

11040: The impact of informational costs in quantity regulation of pollutants. The case of the European Emissions Trading Scheme

Peter Heindl

11039r: An economic analysis of online streaming: How the music industry can generate revenues from cloud computing

Tim Thomes

11039: An economic analysis of online streaming. How the music industry can generate revenues from cloud computing

Tim Thomes

11038: Religion and the shadow economy

Friedrich Heinemann and Friedrich Schneider

11037: Fiscal stimulus and distortionary taxation

Thorsten Drautzburg and Harald Uhlig

11036: Unmasking the Porter hypothesis: Environmental innovations and firm-profitability

Sascha Rexhäuser and Christian Rammer

11035: Ex-post assessment of merger effects: the case of Pfizer and Pharmacia (2003)

Nina Leheyda, Patrick Beschorner and Kai Hüschelrath

11034: The effects of the block exemption regulation reform on the Swiss car market

Nina Leheyda, Patrick Beschorner and Kai Hüschelrath

11033: Human capital investment strategies in Europe

Friedhelm Pfeiffer and Karsten Reuß

11032: More bits - more bucks? Measuring the impact of broadband internet on firm performance

Irene Bertschek, Daniel Cerquera and Gordon Klein

11031: Intertemporal evaluation criteria for climate change policy: the basic ethical issues

Wolfgang Buchholz and Michael Schymura

11030: Entrepreneurs from low-skilled immigrant groups in knowledge-intensive industries - company characteristics, survival and innovative performance

Elisabeth Mueller

11029: What does ex-post evidence tell us about the output effects of future tax reforms?

Richard Kneller and Florian Misch

11028: International diversification benefits with foreign exchange investment styles

Tim Kroencke, Felix Schindler and Andreas Schrimpf

11027: Determinants of eco-innovations by type of environmental impact. The role of regulatory push/pull, technology push and market pull

Jens Horbach, Christian Rammer and Klaus Rennings

11026: Managerial ownership, entrenchment and innovation

Mila Beyer, Dirk Czarnitzki and Kornelius Kraft

11025: Netzzugang, Wettbewerb und Investitionen

Roman Inderst and Martin Peitz

11024: Taxation, R&D tax incentives and patent application in Europe

Christof Ernst and Christoph Spengel

11023: Dips and floors in workplace training: Using personnel records to estimate gender differences

Bernd Fitzenberger and Grit Muehler

11022: Geographical and institutional distances in venture capital deals: How syndication and experience drive internationalization patterns

Tereza Tykvová and Andrea Schertler

11021: The market value of blocking patent citations

Dirk Czarnitzki, Katrin Hussinger and Bart Leten

11020: Politicians' opinions on rivals in the competition for firms: An empirical analysis of reference points near a border

Benny Geys and Steffen Osterloh

11019: Gender differences in business success of German start-up firms

Sandra Gottschalk and Michaela Niefert

11018: Fiscal policy and growth with complementarities and constraints on government

Florian Misch, Norman Gemmell and Richard Kneller

11017: Effects of age at school entry (ASE) on the development of non-cognitive skills: Evidence from psychometric data

Andrea Mühlenweg, Dorothea Blomeyer and Manfred Laucht

11016: The macroeconomic effects of large exchange rate appreciations

Marcus Kappler, Helmut Reisen, Moritz Schularick and Édouard Turkisch

11015: Clustering life trajectories: A new divisive hierarchical clustering algorithm for discrete-valued discrete time series

Stephan Dlugosz

11014: Do residential property companies systematically adjust their capital structure? The case of Germany

Björn-Martin Kurzrock, Frieder Mokinski, Felix Schindler and Peter Westerheide

11013: Give missings a chance: Combined stochastic and rule-based approach to improve regression models with mismeasured monotonic covariates without side information

Stephan Dlugosz

11012: International diversification with securitized real estate and the veiling glare from currency risk

Tim Kroencke and Felix Schindler

11011: Can regional transfers buy public support? Evidence from EU structural policy

Steffen Osterloh

11010: R&D collaboration with uncertain intellectual property rights

Dirk Czarnitzki, Katrin Hussinger and Cédric Schneider

11009: Delay and secrecy: Does industry sponsorship jeopardize disclosure of academic research?

Dirk Czarnitzki, Christoph Grimpe and Andrew A. Toole

11008: Orphans at risk in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence on educational and health outcomes

Katja Coneus and Andrea Mühlenweg

11007: Variation of learning intensity in late adolescence and the impact on noncognitive skills

Bettina Büttner, Hendrik Thiel and Stephan Thomsen

11006: Short-term borrowing for long-term projects: Are family businesses more susceptible to 'irrational' financing choices?

Bettina Peters and Peter Westerheide

11005: Asymmetries and interdependencies in time use between Italian parents

Anna Laura Mancini and Silvia Pasqua

11004: What drives WTP for energy efficiency when moving? Evidence from a Germany-wide household survey

Martin Kesternich

11003: Costs and benefits of inter-departmental innovation collaboration

Maarten Cuijpers, Hannes Guenter and Katrin Hussinger

11002: The contribution of international R&D to firm profitability

Bettina Peters and Anja Schmiele

11001: Gregariousness, interactive jobs and wages

Friedhelm Pfeiffer and Nico Johannes Schulz

1023: Education and Wage Inequality in Germany: A Review of the Empirical Literature

Andrea Maria Weber and Andreas Ammermüller

1022: Revisiting the Impact of Union Structures on Wages: Integrating Different Dimensions of Centralisation

Nicole Gürtzgen

1021: Three Approaches to the Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policy in East Germany Using Regional Data

Tobias Hagen

1020: Firm Level Innovation and Productivity: Is there a Common Story Across Countries?

Bettina Peters, Hans Lööf and Norbert Janz

1019: Extent and Evolution of the Productivity Gap in Eastern Germany

Dirk Czarnitzki

1018: Publicly Funded R&D Collaborations and Patent Outcome in Germany

Dirk Czarnitzki and Andreas Fier

1017: Do Computers Call for Training? Firm-level Evidence on Complementarities Between ICT and Human Capital Investments

Thomas Hempell

10108: IT outsourcing and employment growth at the firm level

Jörg Ohnemus

10107: Cartel destabilization and leniency programs: Empirical evidence

Gordon Klein

10106: Should welfare administration be centralized or decentralized? Evidence from a policy experiment

Bernhard Boockmann, Stephan Thomsen, Thomas Walter, Christian Göbel and Martin Huber

10105r: Industry funding of university research and scientific productivity

Hanna Hottenrott and Susanne Thorwarth

10105: Industry funding of university research and scientific productivity

Hanna Hottenrott and Susanne Thorwarth

10104: The importance of cognitive and social skills for the duration of unemployment

Verena Niepel

10103: Return-to-job during and after maternity leave

Bernd Fitzenberger, Susanne Steffes and Anthony Strittmatter

10102: The influence of international dispersed vs. home-based R&D on innovation performance

Bettina Peters and Anja Schmiele

10101: Explaining the persisting mathematics test score gap between boys and girls

Maresa Sprietsma

10100: Enterprise software and service innovation: Standardization versus customization

Benjamin Engelstätter and Miruna Sarbu

10099: Intellectual property infringements due to R&D abroad? A comparative analysis between firms with international and domestic R&D activities

Anja Schmiele

10098: Corporate science in the patent system: An analysis of the semiconductor technology

Antonio Della Malva and Katrin Hussinger

10097: Investment impact of tax loss treatment: Empirical insights from a panel of multinationals

Daniel Dreßler and Michael Overesch

10096: Ownership concentration, institutional development and firm performance in Central and Eastern Europe

Benjamin Balsmeier and Dirk Czarnitzki

10095: Consumer welfare and unobserved heterogeneity in discrete choice models: The value of alpine road tunnels

Daniel Cerquera Dussán and Hannes Ullrich

10094: Do environmental benefits matter? A choice experiment among house owners in Germany

Martin Achtnicht

10093: Maintaining (locus of) control? Assessing the impact of locus of control on education decisions and wages

Rémi Piatek and Pia Pinger

10092: Words speak louder than actions: The impact of politics on economic performance

Steffen Osterloh

10091: An unconditional basic income in the family context: Labor supply and distributional effects

Julia Horstschräer, Markus Clauss and Reinhold Schnabel

10090: Der Einfluss öffentlichen Eigentums auf die Preissetzung in deutschen Haushaltsstrommärkten

Vigen Nikogosian and Tobias Veith

10089: The national regulatory structure against the background of the European regulatory system

Tobias Veith

10088: European telecommunication regulation: Effects on telecommunication providers

Tobias Veith

10087: Supply and demand for telecommunication infrastructure

Tobias Veith