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2013, Volume 59, Issue 4
- 275-294 Foreign and Domestic Takeovers in Germany: Cherry-picking and Lemon-grabbing
by John P. Weche Gelübcke - 295-309 Towards More Fairness: Forbid IOC Vote Trading
by Frank Daumann & Alfred Wassermann & Anne C. Wunderlich - 311-329 Bank Lending Behavior during Global Financial Crisis
by Vighneswara Swamy & S. Sreejesh - 331-360 The Validity of Wagner's Law in Greece during the Last Two Centuries
by Christian Richter & Dimitrios Paparas
2013, Volume 59, Issue 3
- 197-207 How to Fight Terrorism: The Relevance of Qualitative Economics
by Peter J. Phillips - 209-233 Debt, Assets, and Imbalances in the Euro Area: An Aggregate View
by Christophe Van Nieuwenhuyze - 235-251 Inequality, Savings, and Consumption: A Reassessment of the Relationships in Cointegrated Panels
by Tuomas Malinen - 253-273 The Estimation of Meta-Frontiers by Constrained Maximum Likelihood
by Alexandre Repkine
2013, Volume 59, Issue 2
- 99-124 Banking Efficiency and European Financial Integration
by Cândida Ferreira - 125-148 Do Commodity Index Traders Destabilize Agricultural Futures Prices?
by Martin T. Bohl & Farrukh Javed & Patrick M. Stephan - 149-166 A Panel Estimation of the Relationship between Income, Electric Power Consumption and CO2 Emissions
by Giovanni Bella & Carla Massidda & Ivan Etzo - 167-196 Financial Integration in a Sub-Saharan Country: An Empirical Investigation of Nigeria's Financial Sector Reform through Rational Institutional Evolution
by Jassodra Maharaj
2013, Volume 59, Issue 1
- 1-26 Interpreting Business Cycles as Generalized Two-Dimensional Loops Using Penalized Splines Regression Techniques
by Timo Teuber - 27-61 Losses from Membership in EMU: An Estimated Two-Country DSGE Model
by Cindy Moons - 63-84 What is it About Democracies that Pays Higher Wages?
by Alberto Posso - 85-97 Minimum Wage and Shareholder Wealth: Evidence from Hong Kong
by Kin-Ming Wong & Terence Tai-Leung Chong
2012, Volume 58, Issue 4
- 265-278 The Eurozone Crisis and Debt Mutualization: Assessing the Merkel Government View
by Ansgar Belke - 279-298 Gauging the Impact of a Low Interest Rate Environment on German Life Insurers
by Anke Kablau & Michael Wedow - 299-326 Are GDP Revisions Predictable? Evidence for Switzerland
by Boriss Siliverstovs - 327-353 German-US Commodity Trade: Is there a J-Curve Effect?
by Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee & Masoomeh Hajilee
2012, Volume 58, Issue 3
- 171-191 Currency Disintegration: Two Scenarios of Withdrawal
by Dirk Meyer - 193-212 Financial Development and Income Inequality: Does Inflation Matter?
by Florence Barugahara - 213-221 Price Reactions to the Announcement of the Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement
by Li-Chiu Chi - 223-262 Institutions, Antitrust Effectiveness, and Market Competition: Empirical Evidence from Cross-Country Variations
by Tay-Cheng Ma
2012, Volume 58, Issue 2
- 93-109 The Incidence of Employment Subsidies for Vocational Training
by Karsten Albaek - 111-137 Trade, Institutions, and Religion: The Effect of the Jewish Diaspora on Israel's Foreign Trade
by Yaron Zelekha & Eyal Sharabi & Ohad Bar-Efrat - 139-151 Does Bank Ownership Affect the Credit Channel of Monetary Policy?
by Fatih Macit - 153-170 Last Call for a Banking Union in the Euro Area
by Diego Valiante
2012, Volume 58, Issue 1
- 1-18 The Impact of a Sovereign Default within the Euro Zone on the Exchange Rate
by Arne Breuer & Oliver Sauter - 19-70 Do House Prices Impact Consumption and Interest Rate? Evidence from OECD Countries using an Agnostic Identification Procedure
by Christophe Andre & Rangan Gupta & Patrick T. Kanda - 71-89 Is Cash & Carry Wholesale a Separate Market? Results from an Empirical Study
by Hendrik Schröder
2011, Volume 57, Issue 4
- 233-254 Short-Time Work in German Firms
by Marina Hoffmann & Stefan Schneck - 255-284 Performing Arts and Cinema Demand: Some Evidence of Linder’s Disease
by Vidar Ringstad & Knut Løyland - 285-302 Asset Price Effects Arising from Sports Results and Investor Mood: The Case of a Homogenous Fan Base Area
by Robert Gallagher & Niall O’ Sullivan - 303-324 Tourism and Growth in European Countries: Model Specification and Panel Data Analysis
by Felipa de Mello-Sampayo & Sofia de Sousa-Vale
2011, Volume 57, Issue 3
- 163-175 Non-Keynesian Effects of Fiscal Expansion on Real Interest Rates
by Yaron Zelekha - 177-200 A Non-Stationary Perspective on the Euro Area Business Cycle
by Louise Holm - 201-229 Short and Long Term Evaluations of Public Employment Services in Italy
by Paolo Naticchioni & Silvia Loriga
2011, Volume 57, Issue 2
- 91-105 Efficiency Wages and Negotiated Profit-Sharing under Uncertainty
by Matthias Göcke - 107-143 Exports and Firm Characteristics in Germany: New Evidence from Representative Panel Data
by Joachim Wagner - 145-160 Exports and Firm Characteristics in Germany: A Survey of Empirical Studies (1991 to 2011)
by Joachim Wagner
2011, Volume 57, Issue 1
- 5-14 Survey Forecasts and Money Demand Functions: Some International Evidence
by Christian Pierdzioch & Jan-Christoph Rülke & Georg Stadtmann - 15-25 Whither the TARGET2 System? Taking a Glance at the Real Economic Facets of the Euro-Area Debt Crisis
by Christian Fahrholz & Andreas Freytag - 27-44 From the General to the Specific—Modelling Inflation in China
by J. James Reade & Ulrich Volz - 45-65 Motivations for Foreign Exchange Intervention in Developed and Underdeveloped Capital Markets: Empirical Evidence from Croatia and Japan
by Gunther Schnabl - 67-87 The Bazaar Economy Hypothesis Revisited. A New Trade-Related Measure for Germany's International Openness
by Ansgar Belke & Anselm Mattes & Lars Wang
2010, Volume 61, Issue Supplement
- 9-28 Germany’s Job Miracle in the World Recession—Shock-Absorbing Institutions in the Manufacturing Sector
by Joachim Möller - 29-64 Crisis, What Crisis? Patterns of Adaptation in European Labor Markets
by Werner Eichhorst & Michael Feil & Paul Marx - 65-88 The Role of Labor Market Institutions in the Great Recession
by Jens Boysen-Hogrefe & Dominik Groll & Wolfgang Lechthaler & Christian Merkl - 89-124 Labor Market Reforms, Hysteresis, and Business Cycles in Germany: A SVAR Approach to Explain Unemployment Developments
by Alex Herzog-Stein & Camille Logeay - 125-166 Safeguarding Jobs through Labor Hoarding in Germany
by Martin Dietz & Michael Stops & Ulrich Walwei - 167-188 The Combined Employment Effects of Minimum Wages and Labor Market Regulation—a Meta-Analysis
by Bernhard Boockmann
2010, Volume 56, Issue 4
- 285-315 Is Euro Area Money Demand (Still) Stable? Cointegrated VAR Versus Single Equation Techniques
by Ansgar Belke & Robert Czudaj - 317-341 Detecting Mergers and Acquisitions Effects on Performance, Efficiency, and Productivity with a Bootstrap Mixed Logit Approach: Evidence from Greece
by Athanasios G. Tsagkanos - 343-360 The Effect of Tax Reform in Kazakhstan on Tax Revenues and Tax Evasion
by Aleksandr Vashchilko
2010, Volume 56, Issue 3
- 211-230 Governments and Producers in Multinational Markets: A Mixed Oligopoly Analysis
by Ali Dadpay - 231-256 The Global Upward Trend in the Profit Share
by Luci Ellis & Kathryn Smith - 257-280 Short- and Long-Run Tests of the Expectations Hypothesis: The Portuguese Case
by Olga Susana M. Monteiro & Artur C. B. da Silva Lopes
2010, Volume 56, Issue 2
- 121-146 The Connection between Democratic Freedoms and Growth in Transition Economies
by Jac C. Heckelman - 147-174 Output Characteristics and Other Determinants of Theatre Attendance--An Econometric Analysis of German Data
by John O’Hagan & Marta Zieba - 175-206 National and International Business Cycle Effects of Housing Crises
by Nils Jannsen
2010, Volume 56, Issue 1
- 7-30 Exports and Profitability - First Evidence for German Business Services Enterprises
by Alexander Vogel & Joachim Wagner - 31-50 German Outward FDI and Firm Performance
by Yama Temouri & Nigel L.Driffield & Dolores Anón Higón - 51-72 German Firms in Service Trade
by Markus Kelle & Jörn Kleinert - 73-98 Exporters in Services: new Evidence from Italian Firms
by Giuliano Conti & Alessia Lo Turco & Daniela Maggioni - 99-117 Are Services Different Exporters?
by Hans Lööf
2009, Volume 60, Issue Supplement
- 9-34 Twenty Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Structural Convergence in a Slow-Growth Environment
by Markus Demary & Klaus-Heiner Röhl - 35-54 Is There a Growing Risk of Old-Age Poverty in East Germany?
by Stefan Krenz & Wolfgang Nagl & Joachim Ragnitz - 55-82 Will There Be a Shortage of Skilled Labor? An East German Perspective to 2015
by Herbert S. Buscher & Eva Dettmann & Marco Sunder & Dirk Trocka - 83-110 Returns to Human Capital in Germany Post-Unification
by Katie Lupo & Silke Anger
2009, Volume 55, Issue 4
- 269-294 Do Forecasters Inform or Reassure? Evaluation of the German Real-Time Data
by Konstantin A. Kholodilin & Boriss Siliverstovs - 295-312 Do We Really Know That Flexible Exchange Rates Facilitate Current Account Adjustment? Some New Empirical Evidence for CEE Countries
by Sabine Herrmann - 313-334 Productivity, Ownership and National Chains: Evidence from the British Retail Sector
by Dolores Añón Higón - 335-350 Temporal Causality between Energy Consumption and Income in Six Asian Emerging Countries
by Shuddhasattwa Rafiq & Ruhul A. Salim
2009, Volume 55, Issue 3
- 179-198 Subsidies and Exports in Germany. First Evidence from Enterprise Panel Data
by Sourafel Girma & Holger Görg & Joachim Wagner - 197-218 How important is exporting and ownership to productivity growth? Micro Evidence from a Small Open Economy
by Anne Marie Gleeson & Frances Ruane - 219-242 Self-selection into Exports: Productivity and/or Innovation?
by Juan A. Máñez-Castillejo & María E. Rochina-Barrachina & Juan A. Sanchis-Llopis - 243-263 Does German foreign direct investment lead to job losses at home?
by Yama Temouri & Nigel L. Driffield
2009, Volume 55, Issue 2
- 107-120 Google Econometrics and Unemployment Forecasting
by Nikolaos Askitas & Klaus F. Zimmermann - 121-145 Measuring Growth of Labor Quality and the Quality-Adjusted Unemployment Rate in Switzerland
by Thomas Bolli & Mathias Zurlinden - 147-172 International Business Cycle Co-Movements through Time: The Anglo-Saxon Experience
by Dan Andrews & Marion Kohler
2009, Volume 55, Issue 1
- 7-37 Costs and Benefits of Apprenticeship Training. A Comparison of Germany and Switzerland
by Regina Dionisius & Samuel Muehlemann & Harald Pfeifer & Günter Walden & Felix Wenzelmann & Stefan C. Wolter - 39-60 The Danish Apprenticeship System, 1931–2002: The Role of Subsidies and Institutions
by Karsten Albæk - 61-81 Do Subsidized Adult Apprenticeships Increase the Vocational Attendance Rate?
by Cecilie Dohlmann Weatherall - 83-103 Skill Obsolescence, Vintage Effects and Changing Tasks
by Simon Janßen & Uschi Backes-Gellner
2008, Volume 59, Issue Supplement
- 9-26 Innovators and the Diversity of Innovation Systems
by Uwe Cantner & Andreas Meder - 27-52 Market Integration and the Competitive Effects of Mergers
by Pio Baake & Christian Wey - 53-96 Latin versus European Power - A Comparison of Market Reforms in Europe and Chile and Brazil
by Tim Mennel & Maria Fernanda Viecens - 97-136 Sectoral Innovation Systems, Corporate Strategies, and Competitiveness of the German Economy in a Globalised World
by Michael Rothgang - 137-172 Foreign Subsidiaries in the East German Innovation System - Evidence from Manufacturing Industries
by Jutta Günther & Johannes Stephan & Björn Jindra - 173-212 Globalisation of Innovation in SMEs: Why They Go Abroad and What They Bring Back Home
by Christian Rammer & Anja Schmiele
2008, Volume 54, Issue 4
- 231-254 Persistence and Determinants of Firm Profit in Emerging Markets
by Andreas Stephan & Andriy Tsapin - 255-292 Analyzing the Swiss Business Cycle
by Alexander Perruchoud - 293-318 Predicting Growth Rates and Recessions. Assessing U.S. Leading Indicators under Real-Time Condition
by Jonas Dovern & Christina Ziegler
2008, Volume 54, Issue 3
- 161-182 Minimum Resale Price Maintenance and Concentrated Markets
by Thibaud Vergé - 183-202 Competition Policy and Concentration of a Globalized Retail Industry
by Stéphane Caprice & Vanessa von Schlippenbach - 203-215 M2M Call Termination – regulation or competition?
by Tommy Staahl Gabrielsen & Steinar Vagstad - 217-227 Institutional Rigidities and Employment Rigidity on the Italian Labour Market
by Rebeca Jiménez-Rodríguez & Giuseppe Russo
2008, Volume 54, Issue 2
- 73-93 A Semi-Structural Method to Estimate the NATREX for a Small Open Economy. The Case of Finland
by Isabell Koske - 95-122 Price Competition in Border and Non-Border Areas: The Case of the Dutch Market of Gasoline Retailers
by Wolter H. J. Hassink & Frederik T. Schut - 123-141 Disparities in Prices and Income across German NUTS 3 Regions
by Reinhold Kosfeld & Hans-Friedrich Eckey & Jorgen Lauridsen - 143-157 Firm Interdependency in a Mixed Oligopolitstic Market
by Tay-Cheng Ma
2008, Volume 54, Issue 1
- 7-26 Human Capital Formation, Education and Earnings Inequality
by Uwe Sunde - 27-57 Accuracy and Properties of German Business Cycle Forecasts
by Steffen Osterloh - 59-70 What Does it Take to be a Star? – The Role of Performance and the Media for German Soccer Players Abstract: We test existing superstar theories for the German soccer league. We use various measures for individual players’ performance and media presence to analyze whether performance and popularity can explain salaries and superstars in soccer. Moreover, we argue that quantile regression technique should be applied to analyze superstar phenomena instead of OLS used hitherto
by Erik E. Lehmann & Günther G. Schulze
2007, Volume 53, Issue 4
- 327-352 Are Drivers Who Use Cell Phones Inherently Less Safe?
by James E. Prieger & Robert W. Hahn - 353-373 Exports and Productivity in Germany
by Joachim Wagner - 375-404 Employment Subsidies and Substitutable Skills: An Equilibrium Matching Approach
by Gabriele Cardullo & Bruno Van der Linden
2007, Volume 53, Issue 3
- 221-241 Intra- and Extra-Euro Area Import Demand for Manufactures
by Robert Anderton & Badi H. Baltagi & Frauke Skudelny & Nuno Sousa - 243-272 And Then There Were Four...How Many (and Which) Measures of Active Labor Market Policy Do We Still Need?
by Werner Eichhorst & Klaus F. Zimmermann - 273-298 Do Wages Compensate for Workplace Disamenities?
by Rafael Lalive - 299-321 Foreign Direct Investment in Producer Services: Theory and Empirical Evidence
by Horst Raff & Marc von der Ruhr
2007, Volume 53, Issue 2
- 91-118 Foreign Direct Investment and Catching Up of New EU Member States: Is There a Flying Geese Pattern?
by Jože P. Damijan & Matija Rojec - 119-164 Do Institutions Matter for Exporting? The Case of Russian Manufacturing
by Donato De Rosa - 165-196 Home versus Host Country Effects of FDI: Searching for New Evidence of Productivity Spillovers
by Priit Vahter & Jaan Masso - 197-218 Do Vertical Spillovers from FDI Lead to Changes in Markups? Firm-level Evidence from Hungary
by Balázs Muraközy
2007, Volume 53, Issue 1
- 3-17 Producer Prices versus Consumer Prices in the Measurement of Risk Sharing
by Bent E. Sørensen & Oved Yosha - 19-44 County Characteristics and Poverty Spell Length
by Andrew Grodner & John A. Bishop & Thomas J. Kniesner - 45-69 An Integrative Model of Firms’ Entry Decisions
by Natália Barbosa - 71-86 How Productive Are Government Activities? Evidence from a Sample of OECD Countries
by Georgios Karras
2006, Volume 52, Issue 4
- 291-308 A Note on Unhappiness and Unemployment Duration
by Andrew E. Clark - 309-336 Establishment Size and the Dipsersion of Wages: Evidence from european Countries
by Therry Lallemand & François Rycx - 337-356 Dutch GDP Data Revisions: Are They Predictable and Where Do They Come from?
by Olivier Roodenburg & Ard H.J. den Reijer - 357-374 Selection Procedures for Economics
by William C. Horrace
2006, Volume 52, Issue 3
- 1-18 Convergence of Business Cycles in the Euro Area: Evidence from Survey Data
by Christian Gayer & Peter Weiss - 19-29 The Impact of Non-financial Factors on Heterogeneous Sectoral Price and Output
by Juan de Dios Tena - 30-50 Purchasing from Informal Markets: Evidence from Serbia
by Barry Reilly & Gorana Krstic & Matteo Cominetta - 50-70 Dissecting the Two-Handed Approach: Who’s the Expert Hand For What?
by Jürgen Jerger & Oliver Landmann
2006, Volume 52, Issue 2
- 101-122 Does Multinationality Matter? Evidence from Swedish firm data
by Patrik Karpaty - 123-139 The Impact of German Job Protection Legislation on Job Creation in Small Establishments
by Derik Burgert - 141-151 Banking Structure and Industrial Growth: Evidence from Taiwan on the Role of State-Owned Banks
by Tay-Cheng Ma - 153-189 Employment Decisions during the First Decade of Transition in Russia
by Steven Stillman
2006, Volume 52, Issue 1
- 3-27 Does The Motivation for Foreign Direct Investment Affect Productivity Spillovers to the Domestic Sector?
by Nigel Driffield & James H. Love - 29-54 Firm Performance after Ownership Change: A Matching Estimator Approach
by Christian Bellak & Michael Pfaffermayr & Michael Wild - 55-73 Liquidity Constraints Faced by Firms and Employment
by Hannu Piekkola & Pertti Haaparanta - 75-98 Reforming Long-Term Care in Germany: A Simulation Study
by Hans Fehr & Gitte Halder