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09079: Fixing the leak: unemployment incidence before and after the 2006 reform of unemployment benefits in Germany

Stephan Dlugosz, Gesine Stephan and Ralf Wilke

09078: Partisan politics in corporate tax competition

Steffen Osterloh and Marc Debus

09077: Social preferences under risk: an experimental analysis

Christiane Bradler

09076r: Noncognitive skills in economics: Models, measurement, and empirical evidence

Hendrik Thiel and Stephan Thomsen

09076: Noncognitive skills in economics: Models, measurement, and empirical evidence

Hendrik Thiel and Stephan Thomsen

09075: Ökonomische Aspekte der privaten Durchsetzung des Kartellrechts

Patrick Frank Ernst Beschorner and Kai Hüschelrath

09074: Discrimination in grading? Experimental evidence from primary school

Maresa Sprietsma

09073: Fit and complementarity: cognitive distance and combined competence as predictors of co-operative R&D projects' outcomes in Europe

Laurent Zibell and Peter M. Allen

09072: Intensifying the use of benefit sanctions: an effective tool to shorten welfare receipt and speed up transitions to employment?

Bernhard Boockmann, Stephan Thomsen and Thomas Walter

09071: Mobile network interconnection and investments

Tobias Veith

09070: A socio-economic analysis of youth disconnectedness

Friedhelm Pfeiffer and Ruben Seiberlich

09069: Geduld von Vorschulkindern: Ergebnisse einer Experimentalstudie im Haushaltskontext von Kindern

Björn Bartling, Ernst Fehr, Barbara Fischer, Fabian Kosse and Michel André Maréchal

09068: The design paradox: the contribution of in-house and external design activities on product market performance

Dirk Czarnitzki and Susanne Thorwarth

09067: Does professional knowledge management improve innovation performance at the firm level?

Dirk Czarnitzki and Annelies Wastyn

09066: Selectivity in search strategies for innovation: from incremental to radical, from manufacturing to services

Christian Köhler, Wolfgang Sofka and Christoph Grimpe

09065: Optimal tax progressivity in unionised labour markets: what are the driving forces?

Stefan Boeters

09064: Drivers for international innovation activities in developed and emerging countries

Anja Schmiele

09063: Der Zugang von Arbeitnehmern in den Bezug von Arbeitslosengeld II

Alisher Aldashev and Bernd Fitzenberger

09062: The ZEW combined microsimulation-CGE model: innovative tool for applied policy analysis

Markus Clauss and Stefanie Schubert

09061: Searching for innovation in market and transition economies: evidence across Europe

Wolfgang Sofka and Christoph Grimpe

09060: Skill composition and regional entrepreneurship: a comparative study between Germany and Portugal

Joana Mendonça and Christoph Grimpe

09059: From soft and hard-nosed bankers: bank lending strategies and the survival of financially distressed firms

Daniel Höwer

09058r: German car buyers' willingness to pay to reduce CO2 emissions

Martin Achtnicht

09058: German car buyers' willingness to pay to reduce CO2 emissions

Martin Achtnicht

09057: The economics of adaptation to climate change: the case of Germany

Astrid Dannenberg, Tim Mennel, Daniel Osberghaus and Bodo Sturm

09056: Increasing energy and resource efficiency through innovation: an explorative analysis using innovation survey data

Klaus Rennings and Christian Rammer

09055: Venture capital and internationalization

Andrea Schertler and Tereza Tykvova

09054: Testing the predictability and efficiency of securitized real estate markets

Felix Schindler, Nico Rottke and Roland Füss

09053: The KfW/ZEW start-up panel: design and research potential

Helmut Fryges, Sandra Gottschalk and Karsten Kohn

09052: Econometric evaluation of EU Cohesion Policy: a survey

Tobias Hagen and Philipp Mohl

09051: How does EU cohesion policy work? Evaluating its effects on fiscal outcome variables

Tobias Hagen and Philipp Mohl

09050: Employment growth in newly established firms: is there evidence for academic entrepreneur's human capital depreciation?

Kathrin Müller

09049: Industrial research versus development investment: the implications of financial constraints

Dirk Czarnitzki, Hanna Hottenrott and Susanne Thorwarth

09048: Volatilitätseffekte am US-amerikanischen Häusermarkt

Felix Schindler

09047: What determines local governments' technical efficiency? The case of road maintenance

Alexander Kalb

09046: Does social software support service innovation?

Jenny Meyer

09045: The European Commission and EUA prices: a high-frequency analysis of the EC's decisions on second NAPs

Waldemar Rotfuß, Christian Conrad and Daniel Rittler

09044: Decreasing wage mobility in Germany

Johannes Gernandt

09043: Wage insurance within German firms: do institutions matter?

Nicole Guertzgen

09042: Higher-order beliefs among professional stock market forecasters: some first empirical tests

Jesper Rangvid, Maik Schmeling and Andreas Schrimpf

09041: Ability matching and survival of start-ups

Bettina Müller

09040: Enterprise systems and labor productivity: disentangling combination effects

Benjamin Engelstätter

09039: Inventions under siege? The impact of technology competition on licensing

Christoph Grimpe and Katrin Hussinger

09038: Intergenerational transmission of human capital in early childhood

Katja Coneus and Maresa Sprietsma

09037: The optimal choice of a reference standard for income comparisons: indirect evidence from immigrants' return visits

Holger Stichnoth

09036: Ethnic diversity and attitudes towards redistribution: a review of the literature

Holger Stichnoth and Karine Van der Straeten

09035: 15 years of pension reform in Germany: old successes and new threats

Holger Bonin

09034: Besteuerungsprinzipien und effektive Unternehmenssteuerbelastungen in der Europäischen Union

Christina Elschner, Jost Heckemeyer and Christoph Spengel

09033: Informal university technology transfer: a comparison between the United States and Germany

Christoph Grimpe and Heide Fier

09032: The effect of subsidies on R&D investment and success: do subsidy history and size matter?

Birgit Aschhoff

09031: Young and innocent international evidence on age effects within grades on school victimization in elementary school

Andrea Mühlenweg

09030: Founder's human capital, entry strategies and start-up size

Sandra Gottschalk, Kathrin Müller and Michaela Niefert

09029: Why challenge the ivory tower? New evidence on the basicness of academic patents

Dirk Czarnitzki, Katrin Hussinger and Cédric Schneider

09028: The nexus between science and industry: evidence from faculty inventions

Dirk Czarnitzki, Katrin Hussinger and Cédric Schneider

09027: Nomination contests: theory and empirical evidence from professional soccer

Jeanine Miklós-Thal and Hannes Ullrich

09026: Common corporate tax base (CCTB) and effective tax burdens in the EU member states

Andreas Oestreicher, Timo Reister and Christoph Spengel

09025: Entwicklung und Ungleichheit von Fähigkeiten: Anmerkungen aus ökonomischer Sicht

Friedhelm Pfeiffer

09024: Good occupation - bad occupation? The quality of apprenticeship training

Kathrin Goeggel and Thomas Zwick

09023: Long-term benefits from investing in international real estate

Felix Schindler

09022: Is there a trade-off between academic research and faculty entrepreneurship? Evidence from U.S. NIH supported biomedical researchers

Dirk Czarnitzki and Andrew A. Toole

09021: How clean is clean? Incremental versus radical technological change in coal-fired power plants

Klaus Rennings, Peter Markewitz and Stefan Vögele

09020: Age and productivity: evidence from linked employer employee data

Christian Göbel and Thomas Zwick

09019: Noncognitive skills, school achievements and educational dropout

Katja Coneus, Johannes Gernandt and Marianne Saam

09018: Intraday price formation and volatility in the European Union emissions trading scheme: an introductory analysis

Waldemar Rotfuß

09017: Young, open and international: the impact of search strategies on the internationalization of new ventures

Jörg Zimmermann, Christoph Grimpe and Wolfgang Sofka

09016: Specialized search and innovation performance: evidence across Europe

Wolfgang Sofka and Christoph Grimpe

09015: The role of structural common and country-specific shocks in the business cycle dynamics of the G7 countries

Atılım Seymen and Marcus Kappler

09014: Occupational and locational substitution: measuring the effect of occupational and regional mobility

Alisher Aldashev

08117r: ZEW Corporate Taxation Microsimulation Model (ZEW TaxCoMM)

Timo Reister, Christoph Spengel, Katharina Finke and Jost Heckemeyer

08110r: Blockholdings and corporate governance in the EU banking sector

Matthias Köhler

08101r: Patent thickets, licensing and innovative performance

Iain Cockburn, Megan MacGarvie and Elisabeth Müller

08088r: Impact of service station networks on purchase decisions of alternative-fuel vehicles

Martin Achtnicht, Georg Bühler and Claudia Hermeling

08077r: Consequences of mixed provision of child care: An overview on the German market

Grit Muehler

08043r: Heterogeneous labour markets in a microsimulation-AGE model: application to welfare reform in Germany

Stefan Boeters and Michael Feil

08018r: Who Gets the Money? The Dynamics of R&D Project Subsidies in Germany

Birgit Aschhoff

08009r: Transparency of regulation and cross-border bank mergers

Matthias Köhler

07082r: Merger Control as Barrier to EU Banking Market Integration

Matthias Köhler

07013r: The influence of strategic patenting on companies' patent portfolios

Knut Blind, Katrin Cremers and Elisabeth Mueller

0614r2: The importance of equity finance for R&D activity: are there differences between young and oldcompanies?

Elisabeth Mueller and Volker Zimmermann

0514r2: How does owners' exposure to idiosyncratic risk influence the capital structure of private companies?

Elisabeth Müller

0483: Is there a wage premium or wage discount for flexible hours?

Miriam Beblo, Anja Heinze and Elke Wolf

0429r3: Returns to private equity: idiosyncratic risk does matter!

Elisabeth Müller

0429r2: Returns to private equity: idiosyncratic risk does matter!

Elisabeth Müller

0356: Computable general equilibrium analysis: Opening a black box

Christoph Böhringer, Thomas Fox Rutherford and Wolfgang Wiegard

0146: Employment changes in environmentally innovative firms

Klaus Rennings, Andreas Ziegler and Thomas Zwick

0008: A note on the calculation of firm-specific and skill-specific labor costs from firm-Ievel data

Ulrich Kaiser

9907: New technologies and the demand for heterogeneous labor: Firm-level evidence for the German business-related services sector

Ulrich Kaiser

9847: Growing into Work - Pseudo Panel Data Evidence on Labor Market Entrance in Germany

Joachim Inkmann, Stefan Klotz and Winfried Pohlmeier

9843: Local Business Taxation and Competition for Capital: The Choice of the Tax Rate

Thiess Büttner

9838: Business Start-ups by the Unemployed - an Econometric Analysis Based on Firm Data

Friedhelm Pfeiffer and Frank Reize

9829: The impact of the introduction of the Euro on firms' expectations concerning export behavior, product innovation and foreign competition - An empirical assessment of the German business-related services sector

Ulrich Kaiser and Claudia Müller

9826: The Impact of New Technologies on the Demand for Heterogenous Labour: Empirical Evidence from the German Business-Related Services Sector

Ulrich Kaiser

9823: Der Einfluß der Umweltpolitik auf das Innovationsverhalten eine ökonometrische Untersuchung

Jens Hemmelskamp

9804: Qualifikation, Beschäftigung und technischer Fortschritt - Weitere empirische Evidenz mit den Daten des Mannheimer Innovationspanels

Doris Blechinger and Friedhelm Pfeiffer

9731: The impact of political announcements on expectations concerning the starting date of the EMU - A microeconometric approach to the detection of event-dependent answering patterns in business surveys

Ulrich Kaiser

9728: The Demand of Heterogeneous Labour in Germany

Martin Falk and Bertrand Koebel

9724: Demand Systems with Unit Values: A Comparsion of Two Specifications

Agénor Lahatte, Ruth Miquel, Francois Laisney and Ian Preston

9723: A Simple Test of the Efficiency Wage Hypothesis Revisited

Parsis Dastani, Francois Laisney and Sophie Vouillaume

9722: Welche Bedeutung haben Unternehmenscharakteristika und regionales Umfeld für die Beschäftigungsdynamik? Eine mikroökonometrische Analyse für das ostdeutsche Verarbeitende Gewerbe

Fabian Steil and Elke Wolf

9709: The determinants of BUND-future price changes: An ordered probit analysis using DTB and LIFFE data

Ulrich Kaiser