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5397: Accounting for stock-based compensation: an extended clean surplus relation

Dieter E. Hess and Erik Lüders

5396: Sources of German unemployment: evidence from a structural VAR model

Tobias Linzert

5395: Das Wachstum junger Unternehmen: Eine Bestandsaufnahme 10 Jahre nach der Wiedervereinigung

Matthias Almus

5394: Innovation dynamics and endogenous market structure: econometric results from aggregated survey data

Sandra Gottschalk and Norbert Janz

5393: Labour reallocation during transition: the case of Poland

Una Louise Bell

5392: The Economics of Crime: Investigating the Drugs-Crime Channel. Empirical Evidence from Panel Data of the German States

Horst Entorf and Peter Winkler

5391: Wage rigidities in Western Germany? Microeconometric evidence from the 1990s

Patrick Puhani

5390: Firm leadership and innovative performance: evidence from seven EU Countries

Kornelius Kraft and Dirk Czarnitzki

539: Comparison between unitary and collective models of household labor supply with taxation

Francois Laisney and Denis Beninger

5389: Höheres Beschäftigungswachstum durch Venture Capital?

Dirk Engel

5388: The use of flexible working contracts in West Germany: evidence from an establishment panel

Bernhard Boockmann and Tobias Hagen

5387: Productivity effects of organizational change: microeconometric evidence

Irene Bertschek and Ulrich Kaiser

5386: Product innovation and product innovation marketing: theory and microeconometric evidence

Ulrich Kaiser

5385: Determinants of acquisition and failure: stylized facts and lessons for empirical studies

Jens Köke

5384: The unification bonus (malus) in postwall Eastern Germany

Miriam Beblo, Irwin Collier and Thomas Knaus

5383: Agglomeration tendencies in EU regions: where does capital go?

Claudia Stirböck

5382: Rejecting capital-skill complementarity at all costs

Manuel Frondel and Christoph Schmidt

5381: Effektive Steuerbelastungen bei Vorliegen ökonomischer Renten

Ulrich Schreiber, Christoph Spengel and Lothar Lammersen

5380: Organizational change, new information and communication technologies and the demand for labor in services

Martin Falk

538: A Stigler View on Banking Supervision

Friedrich Heinemann and Martin Schüler

5379: Corporate monitoring by blockholders in Europe: empirical evidence of managerial disciplining in Belgium, France, Germany, and the UK

Isabelle Dherment-Ferere, Jens Köke and Luc Renneboog

5378: Evaluating the impact of public start-up assistance: results from an econometric approach

Matthias Almus

5377: A simple game-theoretical framework for studying R&D expenditures and R&D cooperation

Ulrich Kaiser

5376: Energy taxes and employment: a do-it-yourself simulation model

Christoph Böhringer, Anna Ruocco and Wolfgang Wiegard

5375: Price indices for information and communication technology industries: an application to the German PC market

Dietmar Moch

5374: Do R&D subsidies matter? Evidence for the German service sector

Dirk Czarnitzki and Andreas Fier

5373: Comparing the part-time wage gap in Germany and the Netherlands

Elke Wolf

5372: Arbeitsrechtliche Hemmnisse für die Anreizwirkung flexibler Entgeltsysteme

Walter A. Oechsler

5371: Public deficits and borrowing costs: the missing half of market discipline

Friedrich Heinemann and Viktor Winschel

5370: How do investors' expectations drive asset prices?

Erik Lüders and Bernhard Peisl

537: Family and gender still matter: the heterogeneity of returns to education in Germany

Reinhold Schnabel and Isabel Schnabel

5369: Cooperation in international environmental negotiations due to a preference for equity

Andreas Lange and Carsten Vogt

5368: FIML estimation of a bivariate probit selection rule: an application on firm growth and subsidisation

Frank Reize

5367: New technologies and the demand for medium qualified labour in Germany

Peter Jacobebbinghaus and Thomas Zwick

5366: Fiscal externalities in local tax competition: empirical evidence from a panel of German jurisdictions

Thiess Buettner

5365: The effects of public R&D subsidies on firms' innovation activities: the case of Eastern Germany

Matthias Almus and Dirk Czarnitzki

5364: Moving in and out of financial distress: evidence for newly founded service sector firms

Ulrich Kaiser

5363: The employment impact of cleaner production on the firm level: empirical evidence from a survey in five European countries

Klaus Rennings and Thomas Zwick

5362: Environmental taxation and structural change in an open economy: a CGE analysis with imperfect competition and free entry

Christoph Böhringer, Heinz Welsch and Andreas Löschel

5361: Internationaler Klimaschutz: Nicht mehr als symbolische Politik?

Christoph Böhringer and Carsten Vogt

5360: Die Auswirkung der Forschungs- und Technologiepolitik auf die Innovationsaktivitäten ostdeutscher Unternehmen

Dirk Czarnitzki

536: Is the View from the Eurotower Purely European? National Divergence and ECB Interest Rate Policy

Friedrich Heinemann and Felix Huefner

5359: Unternehmens- versus Analystenbefragungen: Zum Prognosegehalt von ifo-Geschäftserwartungen und ZEW-Konjunkturerwartungen

Felix P. Hüfner and Michael Schröder

5358: Die Auswirkungen öffentlicher Gründungsförderung auf das Überleben und Wachstum junger Unternehmen

Matthias Almus and Susanne Prantl

5357: Kosten der privaten Altersvorsorge: Private Rentenversicherungen und Fondssparpläne im Vergleich

Peter Westerheide

5356: Tarifbindung und die ökonomische Rationalität von Lohnrigiditäten

Wolfgang Franz and Friedhelm Pfeiffer

5352: Imposing and testing curvature conditions on a Box-Cox function

Bertrand Koebel, Martin Falk and Francois Laisney

5351: How much does a year off cost? Estimating the wage effects of employment breaks and part-time periods

Miriam Beblo and Elke Wolf

5350: Management Control and Innovative Activity

Dirk Czarnitzki and Kornelius Kraft

535: The changing life cycle pattern in female employment: a comparison of Germany and the UK

Bernd Fitzenberger and Gaby Wunderlich

5349: Control transfers in corporate Germany: their frequency, causes and consequences

Jens Köke

5348: The behaviour of noise traders: empirical evidence on purchases of business magazines

Dirk Czarnitzki and Georg Stadtmann

5347: What Characterizes a Fast Growing Firm?

Matthias Almus

5346: Consumption and nutrition: age - intake profiles for Czechoslovakia 1989 - 1992

Ruth Miquel and Francois Laisney

5345: What do economists tell us about venture capital contracts?

Tereza Tykvova

5344: Surprises in scheduled releases: why do they move the bond market?

Dieter E. Hess

5343: Enrolments in higher education in West Germany: the impact of social background, labour market returns and educational funding

Charlotte Lauer

5342: Quantification of qualitative data using ordered probit models with an application to a business survey in the German service sector

Ulrich Kaiser and Alexandra Spitz

5341: Die externen Luftverschmutzungskosten des motorisierten Individualverkehrs in Deutschland: Ein regionaler Vergleich

Sigurd Weinreich

5340: On the identification of relative wage rigidity dynamics: a proposal for a methodology on cross-section data and empirical evidence for Poland in transition

Patrick Puhani

534: Verteilung, Differentiale und Wachstum: Eine Verdienstanalyse für Westdeutschland auf Basis der Gehalts- und Lohnstrukturerhebung

Frank Reize and Bernd Fitzenberger

5339: The British foreign exchange reserves puzzle

Felix P. Hüfner

5338: Loosening hours constraints on the supply of labor: what if Germans had a Dutch labor market?

Elke Wolf

5337: Berücksichtigung von Steuern bei der Bewertung von Unternehmen am Beispiel der DCF-Methoden

Tim Laas

5336: Business services in Germany: bridges for innovation

Dirk Czarnitzki and Alfred Spielkamp

5335: Outsourcing of services, imported materials and the demand for heterogeneous labour: an application of a generalised box-cox function

Martin Falk and Bertrand Koebel

5334: Länderautonomie in der Einkommensteuer: Konsequenzen eines Zuschlagsmodells

Thiess Büttner and Robert Schwager

5333: Jobs. Jobs? Jobs! Orientierungshilfen für den Weg zu mehr Beschäftigung

Bernd Fitzenberger and Wolfgang Franz

5332: Gender wage differences in West Germany: a cohort analysis

Bernd Fitzenberger and Gaby Wunderlich

5331: Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations

Thomas Zwick

5330: Industry-level emission trading between power producers in the EU

Christoph Böhringer

533: Erfolgsabhängige Vergütung: Ein sicherer Weg zur Steigerung der Leistung von Top-Managern?

Thomas Zwick, Elke Wolf and Miriam Beblo

5329: Carbon taxes and general joint implementation: an applied general equilibrium analysis for Germany and India

Christoph Böhringer, Klaus Conrad and Andreas Löschel

5328: The shadow of death: an empirical analysis of the pre-exit performance of young German firms

Matthias Almus

5326: The political economy of EU enlargement and the Treaty of Nice

Friedrich Heinemann

5325: Investment opportunities in Central and Eastern European equity markets: an econometric examination of the risk-return relationships for western investors

Michael Schröder

5324: Neues von der NAIRU?

Wolfgang Franz

5323: Social security strategies and redistributive effects in European social transfer systems

Margit Kraus

5322: New economy accounting: why are broad-based stock option plans so attractive?

Dieter E. Hess and Erik Lüders

5321: Haftungsregeln und Innovation

Dirk Czarnitzki and Kornelius Kraft

5320: Wage divergence and unemployment: the impact of insider power and training costs

Joan Muysken and Thomas Zwick

532: Measuring the impact of innovation on firm value: a new approach

Kornelius Kraft and Dirk Czarnitzki

5319: International spillovers and feedback: Modelling in a disequilibrium framework

Peter Winker and Martin Beck

5318: Internationalisation of high-tech start-ups and fast growth-evidence for UK and Germany

Oliver Bürgel, Andreas Fier, Georg Licht and Gordon Murray

5317: Tarifverträge und Beschäftigungspolitik in Dienstleistungsunternehmen

Ulrich Kaiser and Friedhelm Pfeiffer

5316: Collective wage agreements and the adjustment of workers and hours in German service firms

Ulrich Kaiser and Friedhelm Pfeiffer

5315: The performance of German firms in the business-related service sectors: a dynamic analysis

Nguyen van Phu, Ulrich Kaiser and Francois Laisney

5314: Substitution elasticities between capital, labour, material, electricity and fossil fuels in German producing and service sectors

Henrike Koschel

5313: Does R&D-infrastructure attract high-tech start-ups?

Dirk Engel and Andreas Fier

5312: Savings, expectations and technological unemployment: a generalization of assumptions for the Hicksian fixwage traverse

Margit Kraus and Steffen Wirth

5311: Training and individual performance in Europe: evidence from microeconometric studies

Friedhelm Pfeiffer

5310: Criminality, social cohesion and economic performance

Horst Entorf and Hannes Spengler

531: Research and development: financial constraints and the role of public funding for small and medium-sized enterprises

Dirk Czarnitzki

5309: Leaving unemployment for self-employment: a discrete duration analysis of determinants and stability of self-employment among former unemployed

Frank Reize

5308: The cost of phasing out nuclear power: a quantitative assessment of alternative scenarios for Germany

Christoph Böhringer, Tim Hoffmann and Stefan Vögele

5307: The ZEW - Creditreform business survey in the business-related services sector: sampling frame, stratification, expansion and results

Ulrich Kaiser, Markus Kreuter and Hiltrud Niggemann

5306: Corporate finance and restructuring: evidence from Central and Eastern Europe

Jens Köke and Tanja Salem

5305: Employment effects of work sharing: an econometric analysis for West Germany

Viktor Steiner and Ralf-Henning Peters

5304: After the Death of Inflation: Will Fiscal Drag Survive?

Friedrich Heinemann

5303: Private Erträge von Bildungsinvestitionen in Deutschland

Viktor Steiner and Charlotte Lauer