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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

9704: Voluntary Agreements in Environmental Protection - Experiences in Germany and Future Perspectives

Klaus Rennings, Karl Ludwig Brockmann and Heidi Bergmann

9701: Businessmen's Expectations Are Neither Rational nor Adaptive

Marc Nerlove and Til Schuermann

9632: Has earnings inequality in Germany changed in the 1980's?

Viktor Steiner and Kersten Wagner

9631: Nonparametric bounds on employment and income effects of continuous vocational training in East Germany

Michael Lechner

9630: Poland on the dole: unemployment benefits, training, and long-term unemployment during transition

Patrick Puhani

963: Do Ukrainian Firms Benefit from FDI?

Oleksandr Talavera and Stefan Lutz

9629: Retail distribution channel barriers to international trade

Frederic Michael Scherer

9628: Are there financing constraints for R&D and investment in German manufacturing firms?

Dietmar Harhoff

9627: Prognose von Insolvenzwahrscheinlichkeiten mit Hilfe logistischer neuronaler Netzwerke: Eine Untersuchung von kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen

Ulrich Anders and Andrea Szczesny

9626: International competition policy and economic development

Frederic Michael Scherer

9625: Delta-neutral volatility trading with intra-day prices: an application to options on the DAX

Christian Schmitt and Juergen Kaehler

9624: Competition policy convergence: where next?

Frederic Michael Scherer

9623: Umweltpolitik und Innovation: Grundlegende Begriffe und Zusammenhänge

Jens Hemmelskamp

9622: Environmental policy instruments and their effects on innovation

Jens Hemmelskamp

9621: Model selection in neural networks

Ulrich Anders and Olaf Korn

9620: Option pricing using EGARCH models

Christian Schmitt

962: A Comparison Between the Fed and the ECB: Taylor Rules

Katrin Ullrich

9619: Patents and R&D: an econometric investigation using applications for German, European and US patents by German companies

Georg Licht and Konrad Zoz

9618: International trade and competition policy

Frederic Michael Scherer

9616: Tests of representative firm models: results for German manufacturing industries

Bertrand Koebel

9615: Technological change and skill obsolescence: the case of German apprenticeship training

Doris Blechinger and Friedhelm Pfeiffer

9613: The size distribution of profits from innovation

Frederic Michael Scherer

9612: Value at risk: proposals on a generalization

Michael Schröder

9611: Belastungswirkungen einer ökologischen Steuerreform auf Unternehmen und mögliche Ausgleichsmaßnahmen: Belastungsrechnungen am Beispiel des Vorschlags von Bündnis 90/Die Grünen

Alexander Wünsche

9610: Technologietransfer von Hochschulen: Ein Insider-Outsider-Effekt

Marian Beise and Alfred Spielkamp

961: Mutual Recognition of National Minimum Quality Standards may Support International Convergence

Stefan Lutz

9609: Der langfristige Zusammenhang zwischen demographischen und budgetären Variablen

Volker Ulrich and Manfred Erbsland

9608: Die Nachbildung von Aktienindizes: Ein Vergleich verschiedener Verfahren

Olaf Korn and Christian Schmitt

9607: Firm formation in high-tech industries: empirical results for Germany

Eric A. Nerlinger

9606: Die Rendite von Lebensversicherungen nach Steuer

Stefan Brunsbach and Oliver Lang

9605: Währungsunion und deutsche Kapitalmarktzinsen

Friedrich Heinemann

9604: Improving the pricing of options: a neural network approach

Ulrich Anders, Olaf Korn and Christian Schmitt

9603: Die Entwicklung der Lohnstruktur im ostdeutschen Transformationsprozeß

Viktor Steiner and Patrick Puhani

9602: High-Tech-Gründungen in den neuen Bundesländern: Entwicklung und Standorte

Johannes Felder, Andreas Fier and Eric A. Nerlinger

9601: Public works for Poland? Active labour market policies during transition

Patrick Puhani and Viktor Steiner

960: Poverty Alleviation and the Degree of Centralisation in European Schemes of Social Assistance

Margit Kraus and Katja Hölsch

959: The Influence of the EU Environmental Management and Auditing Scheme on Environmental Innovations and Competitiveness in Germany: An Analysis on the Basis of Case Studies and a Large-Scale Survey

Esther Hoffmann, Kathrin Ankele, Andreas Ziegler, Klaus Rennings and Jan Nill