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7535: Return and Volatility Reactions to Monthly Announcements of Business Cycle Forecasts: An Event Study Based on High-Frequency Data

Christian Steiner, Anne Groß and Horst Entorf

7534: Bilanzielle Behandlung von hybriden Finanzinstrumenten: Eine Übersicht

Michael Schröder and Julia Gans

7533: Labour Market Institutions and Structural Reforms: A Source for Business Cycle Synchronisation?

Frauke Schleer and Andreas Sachs

7532: Contestability, Technology and Banking

Reint Gropp and Sandrine Corvoisier

7531: Why Pay Seniority Wages?

Thomas Zwick

7530: Choosing from the Reform Menu Card: Individual Determinants of Labour Market Policy Preferences

Tanja Hennighausen, Ivo Bischoff and Friedrich Heinemann

7529: To Be Financed or Not: The Role of Patents for Venture Capital Financing

Elisabeth Mueller, Dietmar Harhoff and Carolin Haeussler

7528: Host Country Contingencies on Knowledge Protection Strategies of Multinational Firms: Bring a Knife to a Gunfight?

Wolfgang Sofka and Edlira Shehu

7527: Interactions of Reduced Deforestation and the Carbon Market: The Role of Market Regulations and Future Commitments

Niels Anger, Alistair Dixon and Erich Livengood

7526: Oil and Unemployment in Germany

Andreas Löschel and Ulrich Oberndorfer

7525: The Creative Class, Bohemians and Local Labor Market Performance: A Micro-data Panel Study for Germany 1975-2004

Joachim Möller and Annie Tubadji

7524: The Impact of Innovation on Employment in Small and Medium Enterprises with Different Growth Rates

Volker Zimmermann

7523: Employment Adjustments on the Internal and External Labour Market: An Empirical Study with Personnel Records of a German Company

Knut Gerlach and Olaf Hübler

7522: Can a Task-Based Approach Explain the Recent Changes in the German Wage Structure?

Dirk Antonczyk, Bernd Fitzenberger and Ute Leuschner

7521: Crime and the Labour Market: Evidence from a Survey of Inmates

Horst Entorf

7520: Firm Heterogeneity and Wages Under Different Bargaining Regimes: Does a Centralised Union Care for Low-productivity Firms?

Nicole Gürtzgen

7519: Do Older Workers Lower IT-Enabled Productivity? Firm-Level Evidence from Germany

Irene Bertschek and Jenny Meyer

7518: FDI and Taxation: A Meta-Study

Lars Feld and Jost Heckemeyer

7517: ICT, Consulting and Innovative Capabilities

Daniel Cerquera Dussán

7516: Endogenous Firm Heterogeneity, ICT and R&D Incentives

Daniel Cequera and Gordon Klein

7515: Selling Service Plans to Differentially Informed Customers

Roman Inderst and Martin Peitz

7514: The Impact of R&D Tax Incentives on R&D Costs and Income Tax Burden

Christina Elschner and Christof Ernst

7513: What Drives Giving in Extensive Welfare States? The Case of Germany

Sarah Borgloh

7512: Liberalization of the Postal Service Market in Europe: Entry with Universal Service and Partial Coverage

Patrick Frank Ernst Beschorner

7511: Do Consumers Benefit from Concentration in the New Economy? A Review of Google's Mergers, Acquisitions, and Arrangements

Patrick Frank Ernst Beschorner

7510: Private Incentives to Innovate: Interplay of New Products and Brand-Name Reputation

Nina Leheyda

7509: Geographical and Multi-product Linkages of Markets: Impact on Firm Equilibrium Interactions (Some Evidence from the European Car Market)

Nina Leheyda

7508: Market Power, Multimarket Contact and Pricing: Some Evidence from the US Automobile Market

Nina Leheyda

7507: ZEW Corporate Taxation Microsimulation Model (ZEW TaxCoMM)

Timo Reister, Christoph Spengel, Katharina Finke and Jost Heckemeyer

7506: Workers, Firms, or Institutions: What Determines Job Duration for Male Employees in Germany?

Bernhard Boockmann and Susanne Steffes

7505: The Effect of Early Noncognitive Skills on Social Outcomes in Adolescence

Katja Coneus and Manfred Laucht

7504: Reforming Home Care Provision in Germany: Evidence from a Social Experiment

Melanie Arntz and Stephan Thomsen

7503: Crowding out Informal Care? Evidence from a Social Experiment in Germany

Melanie Arntz and Stephan Thomsen

7502: Matching of Individuals for Start-Ups: A Test of the O-Ring Theory

Bettina Müller

7501: Does Innovation Stimulate Employment? A Firm-Level Analysis Using Comparable Micro-Data From Four European Countries

Rupert Harrison, Jordi Jaumandreu, Jacques Mairesse and Bettina Peters

7500: Blockholdings and Corporate Governance in the EU Banking Sector

Matthias Köhler

7499: The Role of Creative Industries in Industrial Innovation

Johannes Trüby, Christian Rammer and Kathrin Müller

7498: The Political Economy of Corporate Tax Harmonization: Why Do European Politicians (Dis)like Minimum Tax Rates?

Steffen Osterloh and Friedrich Heinemann

7497: Is it Worth all the Trouble? The Costs and Benefits of Antitrust Enforcement

Kai Hüschelrath

7496: Detection of Anticompetitive Horizontal Mergers

Kai Hüschelrath

7495: Building and Blocking: The Two Faces of Technology Acquisition

Christoph Grimpe and Katrin Hussinger

7479: How Weather-Proof is the Construction Sector? Empirical Evidence from Germany

Ralf Wilke and Melanie Arntz

7478: Which is the Right Dose of EU Cohesion Policy for Economic Growth?

Philipp Mohl and Tobias Hagen

7477: Beschäftigungsstabilität im Konjunkturzyklus: Eine empirische Analyse mit Individualdaten für Westdeutschland 1984-2005

Thomas Walter and Olaf Hübler

7476: A New Metric for Banking Integration in Europe

Reint Gropp and Anil Kashyap

7475: Patent Thickets, Licensing and Innovative Performance

Elisabeth Müller, Megan MacGarvie and Iain Cockburn

7474: Initial Risk Matrix, Home Resources, Ability Development and Children's Achievement

Manfred Laucht, Katja Coneus, Dorothea Blomeyer and Friedhelm Pfeiffer

7473: Ex Post Regulation Facilitates Collusion

Patrick Frank Ernst Beschorner

7472: Do Shorter Product Cycles Induce Patent Thickets?

Patrick Frank Ernst Beschorner

7471: Sectoral Differences in Wage Freezes and Wage Cuts: Evidence from a new Firm Survey

Daniel Radowski and Holger Bonin

7470: Is it Who You Ask or How You Ask? Findings of a Meta-Analysis on Genetically Modified Food Valuation Studies

Astrid Dannenberg

7442: Drivers and Effects of Internationalising Innovation by SMEs

Christian Rammer and Anja Schmiele

7441: Successful Patterns of Scientific Knowledge Sourcing: Mix and Match

Birgit Aschhoff and Wolfgang Sofka

7440: Are Local Milieus the Key to Innovation Performance?

Hanna L. Binz and Dirk Czarnitzki

7439: Older Workers and the Adoption of New Technologies

Jenny Meyer

7438: Regional Versus Individual Aspects of the Digital Divide in Germany

Katrin Schleife

7437: Alleviating Adverse Implications of EU Climate Policy on Competitiveness: The Case for Border Tax Adjustments or the Clean Development Mechanism?

Niels Anger, Victoria Alexeeva-Talebi and Andreas Löschel

7436: Firm Closure, Financial Losses and the Consequences for an Entrepreneurial Restart

Georg Metzger

7435: Is Temporary Employment a Stepping Stone for Unemployed School Leavers?

Elsy Verhofstadt and Christian Goebel

7434: Innovation Success of Non-R&D-Performers: Substituting Technology by Management in SMEs

Alfred Spielkamp, Dirk Czarnitzki and Christian Rammer

7433: Clean and Productive? Evidence from the German Manufacturing Industry

Ulrich Oberndorfer, Ulf Moslener, Christoph Böhringer and Andreas Ziegler

7432: Language Usage, Participation, Employment and Earnings: Evidence for Foreigners in West Germany with Multiple Sources of Selection

Stephan Thomsen, Johannes Gernandt and Alisher Aldashev

7431: The Immigrant Wage Gap in Germany

Stephan Thomsen, Johannes Gernandt and Alisher Aldashev

7430: Impact of Service Station Networks on Purchase Decisions of Alternative-fuel Vehicles

Martin Achtnicht, Georg Bühler and Claudia Hermeling

7429: Inkrementelle versus radikale Innovationen am Beispiel der Kraftwerkstechnik

Klaus Rennings, Peter Markewitz and Stefan Vögele

7428: Does EU Cohesion Policy Promote Growth? Evidence from Regional Data and Alternative Econometric Approaches

Philipp Mohl and Tobias Hagen

7427: Exports and Profitability: First Evidence for German Manufacturing Firms

Helmut Fryges and Joachim Wagner

7426: The Effects of Experience on Selecting Innovation Projects: Better the Devil You Know

Tobias Schmidt, Franz Schwiebacher and Wolfgang Sofka

7425: Wissensvermittlung versus Legitimationsfunktion: Warum engagieren Unternehmen IT-Berater?

Irene Bertschek

7424: International Scientist Mobility and the Locus of Technology Transfer

Jakob Edler, Heide Fier and Christoph Grimpe

7423: Auctioning of CO₂ Emission Allowances in Phase 3 of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme

Eva Benz, Andreas Löschel and Bodo Sturm

7422: Formal and Informal Technology Transfer from Academia to Industry: Complementarity Effects and Innovation Performance

Christoph Grimpe and Katrin Hussinger

7421: The Effect of Entry on R&D Investment of Leaders: Theory and Empirical Evidence

Dirk Czarnitzki, Federico Etro and Kornelius Kraft

7420: Institutional Childcare: An Overview on the German Market

Grit Muehler

7419: The Determinants of Merger Waves: An International Perspective

Klaus Gugler, Dennis C. Mueller and Michael Weichselbaumer

7418: Managing Search Strategies for Open Innovation: The Role of Environmental Munificence as well as Internal and External R&D

Wolfgang Sofka and Christoph Grimpe

7417: Labor Pooling in R&D Intensive Industries

Heiko A. Gerlach, Thomas Rønde and Konrad O. Stahl

7416: The Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Early Childhood

Katja Coneus and Katharina Spiess

7415: A Test of the Quality of Concentration Indices

Diana Heger and Kornelius Kraft

7414: Barriers to Entry and Profitability

Diana Heger and Kornelius Kraft

7393: Grade Inflation, Social Background, and Labour Market Matching

Robert Schwager

7392: Commercializing Academic Research: The Quality of Faculty Patenting

Cédric Schneider, Katrin Hussinger and Dirk Czarnitzki

7391: Sensitivity Analysis in Economic Simulations: A Systematic Approach

Claudia Hermeling and Tim Mennel

7390: Self-Productivity and Complementarities in Human Development: Evidence from MARS

Manfred Laucht, Katja Coneus, Dorothea Blomeyer and Friedhelm Pfeiffer

7389: CO₂ Emission Reduction in Freight Transports How to Stimulate Environmental Friendly Behaviour?

Georg Bühler and Patrick Jochem

7388: A Critical Note on the Forecast Error Variance Decomposition

Atılım Seymen

7387: Knowledge Production in Nanomaterials: An Application of Spatial Filtering to Regional Systems of Innovation

Roberto Patuelli and Christoph Grimpe

7386: Individual Determinants of Social Fairness Assessments: The Case of Germany

Tanja Hennighausen, Friedrich Heinemann and Ivo Bischoff

7385: Explaining the Employability Gap of Short-term and Long-term Unemployed Persons

Stephan Thomsen

7384: Climate Policy and the Problem of Competitiveness: Border Tax Adjustments or Integrated Emission Trading?

Andreas Löschel, Victoria Alexeeva-Talebi and Tim Mennel

7383: The Economic Impact of Olympic Games: Evidence from Stock Markets

Christian Dick and Qingwei Wang

7382: EU Emission Allowances and the Stock Market: Evidence from the Electricity Industry

Ulrich Oberndorfer

7381: A Lead Market Approach Towards the Emergence and Diffusion of Coal-fired Power Plant Technology

Klaus Rennings and Wilko Smidt

7380: Unemployment Persistence: Is There Evidence for Stigma Effects?

Martin Biewen and Susanne Steffes

7379: Wirkung und Effizienz von Strafrecht: "Was geht?" - bei jungen Gewalttätern?

Horst Entorf

7378: Wie kann die durchschnittliche Ausbildungsquote in Deutschland korrekt gemessen werden?

Peter Jacobebbinghaus, Jens Mohrenweiser and Thomas Zwick

7377: Linking CGE and Microsimulation Models: A Comparison of Different Approaches

Giulia Colombo

7376: The Impact of Trust on Reforms

Friedrich Heinemann and Benjamin Tanz

7375: Innovation on Demand: Can Public Procurement Drive Market Success of Innovations

Birgit Aschhoff and Wolfgang Sofka

7361: The Impact of Intergovernmental Grants on Cost Efficiency: Theory and Evidence from German Municipalities

Alexander Kalb