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5302: An applied econometricians' view of empirical corporate governance studies

Axel Börsch-Supan and Jens Köke

530: Trade Policy: 'Political' vs. 'Economic' Factors

Stefan Lutz

5292: A dynamic heterogeneous labour demand model for German manufacturing

Martin Falk and Bertrand Koebel

5291: Effektive Steuerbelastung der grenzüberschreitenden Geschäftstätigkeit nach den Vorschlägen zur Reform der Unternehmensbesteuerung

Christoph Spengel

5290: The ratification of ILO conventions: a failure time analysis

Bernhard Boockmann

529: Entrepreneurship Capital and Economic Performance

David Audretsch and Max Keilbach

5289: Kollektive Lohnverhandlungen und Auslandsdirektinvestitionen: eine empirische Studie mit Firmendaten

Ralf-Henning Peters

5287: Die Psychologie irrationaler Wirtschaftspolitik am Beispiel des Reformstaus

Friedrich Heinemann

5286: Decomposing the cost of Kyoto: a global CGE analysis of multilateral policy impacts

Christoph Böhringer and Thomas Rutherford

5285: An empirical test of the asymmetric models on innovative activity: who invests more into R&D - the incumbent or the challenger?

Dirk Czarnitzki and Kornelius Kraft

5284: EU enlargement and immigration

Margit Kraus and Robert Schwager

5283: Gender wage gap in West Germany: how far do gender differences in human capital matter?

Charlotte Lauer

5282: Zur wissenschaftlichen Evaluation der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland: Ein Überblick

Bernd Fitzenberger and Stefan Speckesser

5281: Cohort effects and the returns to education in West Germany

Bernhard Boockmann and Viktor Steiner

5280: Returns to education in West Germany: an empirical assessment

Charlotte Lauer and Viktor Steiner

528: What drives market structure? On the relation between firm demographic processes, firms? innovative behaviour and market structure

Emmanuelle Fauchart and Max Keilbach

5279: Lower wages for less hours? A simultaneous wage-hours model for Germany

Elke Wolf

5278: The impact of non-profit temping agencies on individual labour market success in the West German state of Rhineland-Palatinate

Michael Lechner, Friedhelm Pfeiffer, Hannes Spengler and Matthias Almus

5277: Formelle und informelle berufliche Weiterbildung und Verdienst bei Arbeitnehmern und Selbständigen

Friedhelm Pfeiffer and Frank Reize

5276: Do Business-related Services Really Lag Behind Manufacturing Industries in the Business Cycle? Empirical Evidence on the Lead/Lag Relationship Between Business-related Services and Manufacturing Industries for Germany

Ulrich Kaiser and Katrin Voß

5275: Product market competition, corporate governance and firm performance: an empirical analysis for Germany

Silke I. Januszewski, Jens Köke and Joachim Winter

5274: Modeling German unification in a disequilibrium framework

Peter Winker, Werner Smolny and Daniel Radowski

5273: New evidence on ownership structures in Germany

Jens Köke

5272: Technological innovations and the expected demand for skilled labour at the firm level

Martin Falk

5271: The impact of information technology on high-skilled labour in services: evidence from firm level panel data

Martin Falk and Katja Seim

5270: Der Flächentarifvertrag: Eine kritische Würdigung aus ökonomischer Sicht

Bernd Fitzenberger and Wolfgang Franz

5269: Investment and employment adjustment after unification: some results from a macroeconometric disequilibrium model

Daniel Radowski, Werner Smolny and Peter Winker

5268: Effective marginal tax rates for US investors in Germany and Europe: an analysis of recent tax reforms in Germany

Christoph Spengel

5267: The effective average tax burden in the European Union and the USA: a computer-based calculation and comparison with the model of the European tax analyzer

Otto H. Jacobs and Christoph Spengel

5266: Export and innovation activities in the German service sector: empirical evidence at the firm level

Günther Ebling and Norbert Janz

5265: Double Bertrand tax competition: a fiscal game with governments acting as middlemen

Andreas Wagener

5264: Optimal secession rules

Massimo Bordignon and Sandro Brusco

5263: Die Struktur kollektiver Lohnverhandlungen und Auslandsdirektinvestitionen in der OECD

Ralf-Henning Peters and Kerstin Schneiders

5262: Die Reformperspektive der EU-Finanzverfassung nach den Beschlüssen zur Agenda 2000

Friedrich Heinemann

5261: Real and monetary challenges to wage policy in Germany at the turn of the millennium: technical progress, globalization and European Monetary Union

Wolfgang Franz

5260: Labour mobility - an adjustment mechanism in Euroland? Empirical evidence for Western Germany, France and Italy

Patrick Puhani

5259: Uncertainty of outcome versus reputation: empirical evidence for the First German Football Division

Dirk Czarnitzki and Georg Stadtmann

5258: Democratisation versus accountability - should the European Parliament be given more powers?

Robert Schwager

5257: Law enforcement and criminality: Europe vs. USA

Dominique Demougin and Robert Schwager

5256: Cooling down hot air: a global CGE analysis of post-Kyoto carbon abatement strategies

Christoph Böhringer

5255: Federation's alternative tax constitutions and risky education

Panu Poutvaara

5254: Public procurement in the presence of capital taxation

Alfons Weichenrieder

5253: Wages in the East German transition process: facts and explanations

Wolfgang Franz and Viktor Steiner

5252: Tax competition and tax structure in open federal economies: evidence from OECD countries with implications for the European Union

Timothy Goodspeed

5251: Estimating the effects of public training on Polish unemployment by way of the augmented matching function approach

Patrick Puhani

5250: Institutional investment in Central and Eastern Europe: investment criteria of Western portfolio managers

Jens Köke

5249: Decomposing general equilibrium effects of policy intervention in multi-regional trade models: method and sample application

Christoph Böhringer and Thomas Rutherford

5248: Factor mobility and fiscal policy in the EU: policy issues and analytical approaches

David Wildasin

5247: Industry-level wage bargaining: a partial rehabilitation; the German experience

Bernd Fitzenberger and Wolfgang Franz

5246: Employment impacts of cleaner production: evidence from a German study using case studies and surveys

Friedhelm Pfeiffer and Klaus Rennings

5245: Is Portugal really so arteriosclerotic? Results from a cross-country analysis of labor adjustment

John Addison and Paulino Teixeira

5244: Does globalization restrict budgetary autonomy? A multidimensional approach

Friedrich Heinemann

5243: Vertical income tax externalities and fiscal interdependence: evidence from the US

Alejandro Esteller-Moré and Albert Solé-Ollé

5242: A model of welfare competition with evidence from AFDC

Luz Amparo Saavedra

5241: Human capital creates insider power

Joan Muysken and Thomas Zwick

5240: Innovations induce asymmetric employment movements

Thomas Zwick

5239: Determinanten regionaler Unterschiede in der Gründungshäufigkeit wissensintensiver Dienstleister

Matthias Almus, Jürgen Egeln and Dirk Engel

5238: Mobilität nach der beruflichen Ausbildung: Eine empirische Studie für Westdeutschland

Wolfgang Franz and Volker Zimmermann

5237: Die Kosten des Klimaschutzes: Eine Interpretationshilfe für die mit quantitativen Wirtschaftsmodellen ermittelten Kostenschätzungen

Christoph Böhringer

5236: Capital Mobility within EMU

Claudia Stirböck and Friedrich Heinemann

5235: Der Einfluß der Grenznähe auf die Standortwahl von Unternehmen: Eine theoretische Analyse und empirische Befunde für Ostdeutschland

Dirk Engel

5234: 250 Analysten, 1 Portfolio? Eine ökonometrische Analyse von Empfehlungen zur Gestaltung eines Vermögensportfolios zur Altersvorsorge

Robert Dornau and Andrea Szczesny

5233: Business Cycles in EU Member States

Herbert S. Buscher

5232: The impact of monetary instruments on shock absorption in EU-Countries

Claudia Müller and Herbert S. Buscher

5231: Workers' skill level and information technology: evidence from German service firms

Martin Falk and Katja Seim

5230: C & C - contraction and convergence of carbon emissions: the economic implications of permit trading

Christoph Böhringer and Heinz Welsch

5229: Berufliche Weiterbildung und Existenzgründung

Friedhelm Pfeiffer and Frank Reize

5228: Energy market projections and differentiated carbon abatement in the European Union

Christoph Böhringer, Jesper Jensen and Thomas Rutherford

5227: Regional convergence and economic performance: a case study of the West German Laender

Herbert S. Buscher, Johannes Felder and Viktor Steiner

5223: Wachstumsdeterminanten junger Unternehmen in den alten und neuen Bundesländern: Ein Vergleich zwischen innovativen und nicht-innovativen Unternehmen

Matthias Almus, Dirk Engel and Eric A. Nerlinger

5222: What's on their mind: do exchange rate forecasters stick to theoretical models?

Michael Schröder and Robert Dornau

5221: Curvature conditions and substitution pattern among capital, energy, materials and heterogeneous labour

Bertrand Koebel and Martin Falk

5220: Growth determinants of start-ups in Eastern Germany: a comparison between innovative and non-innovative firms

Matthias Almus, Eric A. Nerlinger and Fabian Steil

5219: Exchange rate regimes and fiscal discipline in OECD countries

Friedrich Heinemann

5218: Existenzgründerpotentiale unter Arbeitsuchenden: Empirische Evidenz auf der Basis des Mikrozensus

Friedhelm Pfeiffer

5217: Zum Zusammenhang zwischen Größe und Wachstum bei Gründungen - Empirische Ergebnisse für West-Deutschland

Eric A. Nerlinger and Matthias Almus

5216: Mandated benefits, welfare, and heterogeneous firms

John Addison, Charles Richard Barrett and William Siebert

5215: Mapping innovative clusters in national innovation systems

Alfred Spielkamp and Katrin Vopel

5214: Do hours restrictions matter? A discrete family labor supply model with endogenous wages and hours restrictions

Elke Wolf

5213: Minimum Wages and Poverty

John Addison and McKinley Blackburn

5212: Job Search Methods and Outcomes

John Addison and Pedro Portugal

5211: Empirical macromodels under test: a comparative simulation study of the employment effects of a revenue neutral cut in social security contributions

Herbert S. Buscher, Hermann Buslei, Klaus Göggelmann, Henrike Koschel, Fred Ramb, Tobias F. N. Schmidt, Viktor Steiner and Peter Winker

5210: Central wage bargaining and local wage flexibility: evidence from the entire wage distribution

Thiess Büttner and Bernd Fitzenberger

5209: Public research and industrial innovations in Germany

Marian Beise and Harald Stahl

5208: Die gemeinnützige Arbeitnehmerüberlassung in Rheinland-Pfalz: Eine ökonometrische Analyse des Wiedereingliederungserfolgs

Matthias Almus, Jürgen Egeln, Michael Lechner, Friedhelm Pfeiffer and Hannes Spengler

5207: The internationalisation of British and German start-up companies in high-technology industries

Oliver Bürgel, Andreas Fier, Georg Licht, Gordon Murray and Eric A. Nerlinger

5206: R&D cooperation and R&D intensity: theory and micro-econometric evidence for german manufacturing industries

Ulrich Kaiser and Georg Licht

5205: The goals of sustainable development and the reform of the EU banana trade regime: a discussion of different trade instruments

Suhita Osório-Peters

5204: EMU and fiscal discipline: the end of the depreciation threat

Friedrich Heinemann

5203: Pricing to market of German exporters: evidence from panel data

Rahel Falk and Martin Falk

5202: Advantage through training? A microeconometric evaluation of the employment effects of active labour market programmes in Poland

Patrick Puhani

5201: Industrial change, stability of relative earnings, and substitution of unskilled labor in West-Germany

Viktor Steiner and Robert Mohr

5200: Hedging langfristiger Lieferverpflichtungen mit kurzfristigen Futures: möglich oder unmöglich?

Wolfgang Bühler and Olaf Korn

5192: Electoral Competition under Media Influence

Wolfgang Bräuer

5191: Why Hedge? - A Critical Review of Theory and Empirical Evidence -

Norbert Ammon

5190: Finanzierungsstrukturen im Vergleich - Eine Analyse europäischer Unternehmen -

Fred Ramb

5189: Socio-economic and demographic factors of crime in Germany: evidence from panel data of the German states

Horst Entorf and Hannes Spengler

5188: Tradable SO-2-permits in the European Union: a practicable scheme for public utilities

Karl Ludwig Brockmann, Henrike Koschel and Tobias F. N. Schmidt

5187: Innovationsstrategien und Forschungsaktivitäten ostdeutscher Unternehmen

Johannes Felder and Alfred Spielkamp

5186: Shock around the clock - on the causal relations between international stock markets, the strength of causality and the intensity of shock transmission: an econometric analysis

Robert Dornau