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7305: Successful Patterns of Scientific Knowledge Sourcing: Mix and Match

Wolfgang Sofka and Birgit Aschhoff

7304: Die Auswirkungen des demografischen Wandels auf das Gründungsgeschehen in Deutschland

Sebastian Theuer and Sandra Gottschalk

7303: Conditional Grants, Grant-Seeking and Welfare when there is Government Failure on the Subordinate Level

Ivo Bischoff

7302: Formal and Strategic Appropriability Strategies of Multinational Firms: A Cross Country Comparison

Pedro de Faria and Wolfgang Sofka

7301: Does Mandatory Labeling of Genetically Modified Food Grant Consumers the Right to Know? Evidence from an Economic Experiment

Astrid Dannenberg, Sara Scatasta and Bodo Sturm

7300: Rate Cutting Tax Reforms and Corporate Tax Competition in Europe

Friedrich Heinemann, Michael Overesch and Johannes Rincke

7299: Who's afraid of an EU tax and why? Revenue system preferences in the European Parliament

Philipp Mohl, Friedrich Heinemann and Steffen Osterloh

7298: A European Perspective on Recent Trends in U.S. Climate Policy

Ulf Moslener and Bodo Sturm

7297: Monetary Policy Implementation and the Federal Funds Rate

Dieter Nautz and Sandra Schmidt

7296: Voter Involvement, Fiscal Autonomy and Public Sector Efficiency: Evidence from German Municipalities

Benny Geys, Friedrich Heinemann and Alexander Kalb

7295: Public Interest vs. Interest Groups: Allowance Allocation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme

Niels Anger, Christoph Böhringer and Ulrich Oberndorfer

7294: Wage Convergence and Inequality after Unification: (East) Germany in Transition

Johannes Gernandt and Friedhelm Pfeiffer

7255: Union Density and Varieties of Coverage: The Anatomy of Union Wage Effects in Germany

Alexander Lembcke, Karsten Kohn and Bernd Fitzenberger

7230: IT Training and Employability of Older Workers

Katrin Schleife

7229: The Impact of Personal and Corporate Taxation on Capital Structure Choices

Dennis Voeller and Michael Overesch

7228: Why Do Firms Train Apprentices? The Net Cost Puzzle Reconsidered

Jens Mohrenweiser and Thomas Zwick

7227: Who Gets the Money? The Dynamics of R&D Project Subsidies in Germany

Birgit Aschhoff

7226: Returns and Volatility of Eurozone Energy Stocks

Ulrich Oberndorfer

7225: Reducing Deforestation and Trading Emissions: Economic Implications for the post-Kyoto Carbon Market

Jayant A. Sathaye and Niels Anger

7224: The Determinants of Capital Structure: Some Evidence from Banks

Florian Heider and Reint Gropp

7223: Assessing Intergenerational Earnings Persistence Among German Workers

Friedhelm Pfeiffer and Philipp Eisenhauer

7194: Regional Versus Individual Aspects of the Digital Divide in Germany

Katrin Schleife

7193: The Effect of Firm- and Industry-Level Contracts on Wages: Evidence from Longitudinal Linked Employer-Employee Data

Nicole Gürtzgen

7191: Patent Protection, Market Uncertainty, and R&D Investment

Andrew A. Toole and Dirk Czarnitzki

7190: Detecting Behavioural Additionality: An Empirical Study on the Impact of Public R&D Funding on Firms' Cooperative Behaviour in Germany

Andreas Fier, Birgit Aschhoff and Heide Löhlein

7189: Asset Pricing with a Reference Level of Consumption: New Evidence from the Cross-Section of Stock Returns

Andreas Schrimpf and Joachim Grammig

7188: Beschäftigung und Arbeitslosigkeit älterer Arbeitnehmer: Eine mikroökonometrische Evaluation der Arbeitslosengeldreform von 1997

Philipp Zahn, Ralf Wilke and Eva Müller

7187: Rising Wage Inequality in Germany

Friedhelm Pfeiffer and Johannes Gernandt

7186: The Importance of Equity Finance for R&D Activity: Are There Differences Between Young and OldCompanies?

Volker Zimmermann and Elisabeth Mueller

7185: Rent-Sharing and Collective Bargaining Coverage: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Nicole Gürtzgen

7184: How Does Owners' Exposure to Idiosyncratic Risk Influence the Capital Structure of Private Companies?

Elisabeth Müller

7183: Employment Effects of Different Innovation Activities: Microeconometric Evidence

Bettina Peters

7182: Computer Use and the Employment Status of Older Workers: An analysis Based on Individual Data

Katrin Schleife

7181: A Note on Implementing Box-Cox Quantile Regression

Ralf Wilke, Bernd Fitzenberger and Xuan Zhang

7180: Censored Quantile Regressions and the Length of Unemployment Periods in West Germany

Zhang Xuan, Ralf Wilke and Elke Lüdemann

7179: Semiparametric Estimation of Consumption Based Equivalence Scales: The Case of Germany

Ralf Wilke

7178: The Relationship between R&D Collaboration, Subsidies and Patenting Activity: Empirical Evidence from Finland and Germany

Andreas Fier, Bernd Ebersberger and Dirk Czarnitzki

7177: Returns to Private Equity: Idiosyncratic Risk Does Matter!

Elisabeth Müller

7176: Modeling Asset Returns: A Comparison of Theoretical and Empirical Models

Michael Schröder and Erik Lüders

7134: Price Indexes for PC Database Software and the Value of Code Compatibility

Dietmar Harhoff and Dietmar Moch

7133: A Regulatory Framework for a Policy of Sustainability: Lessons from the Neo-Liberal School

Klaus Rennings, Henrike Koschel, Karl Ludwig Brockmann and Isabel Kühn

7132: Linking Weak and Strong Sustainability Indicators: The Case of Global Warming

Klaus Rennings and Olav Hohmeyer

7131: Estimation of Household Demand Systems Using Unit Value Data

Ian Preston, Francois Laisney and Ian Crawford

7130: Employment and Wage Effects of Social Security Financing: An Empirical Analysis of the West German Experience and some Policy Simulations

Viktor Steiner

7122: The R&D Investment-Uncertainty Relationship: Do Competition and Firm Size Matter?

Andrew A. Toole and Dirk Czarnitzki

7120: Nach der Reform ist vor der Reform? Eine arbeitsökonomische Analyse ausgewählter Aspekte der Hartz-Reformen

Bernd Fitzenberger

7119: Intra- und intergenerationale Umverteilungseffekte in der bundesdeutschen Alterssicherung auf Basis humankapital - theoretischer Überlegungen

Friedhelm Pfeiffer and Karsten Reuß

7098: Ungleichheit und die differentiellen Erträge frühkindlicher Bildungsinvestitionen im Lebenszyklus

Friedhelm Pfeiffer and Karsten Reuß

7097: Reformen im Niedriglohnsektor: Eine integrierte CGE-Mikrosimulationsstudie der Arbeitsangebots- und Beschäftigungseffekte

Wolfgang Franz, Nicole Guertzgen, Stefanie Schubert and Markus Clauss

7020: Transparency of Regulation and Cross-Border Bank Mergers

Matthias Köhler

7019: Are Local Milieus the Key to Innovation Performance?

Dirk Czarnitzki and Hanna L. Binz

7018: A Comparative Study on the Role of Stochastic Trends in U.S. Macroeconomic Fluctuations, 1954-1988

Atılım Seymen

7017: Distributional and Behavioural Effects of the German Labour Market Reform

Markus Clauss and Reinhold Schnabel

7016: Financial Constraints: Routine Versus Cutting Edge R&D Investment

Hanna L. Binz and Dirk Czarnitzki

7015: Energieeffizienz: Eine neue Aufgabe für staatliche Regulierung?

Bodo Sturm and Tim Mennel

7014: Hybridkapital. Eine Marktübersicht

Jakub Kaczmarczyk and Wojtek Piaskowski

7013: Gains and Pains from Contract Research: A Transaction and Firm-level Perspective

Ulrich Kaiser and Christoph Grimpe

7011: Does IT Outsourcing Increase Firm Success? An Empirical Assessment using Firm-Level Data

Jörg Ohnemus

7010: Durable Goods, Innovation and Network Externalities

Daniel Cerquera Dussán

7008: Job and Worker Reallocation in German Establishments: The Role of Employers? Wage Policies and Labour Market Institutions

Nicole Guertzgen

7007: Entry Deterrence in Postal Service Markets

Patrick Frank Ernst Beschorner

7006: Merger Control as Barrier to EU Banking Market Integration

Matthias Koehler

7005: The Impact of Fiscal Equalization on Local Expenditure Policies: Theory and Evidence from Germany

Sebastian Hauptmeier

7004: Latin versus European Power: A Tale of Two Market Reforms

Tim Mennel and María Viecens