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  • Diskussionspapiere 332 / 2003

    International Commodity Taxation under Monopolistic Competition

    We analyze non-cooperative commodity taxation in a two-country trade model characterized by monopolistic competition and international firm and capital mobility. In this setting, taxes in one country affect foreign welfare through the relocation of mobile firms and through changes in the rents accruing to capital owners. With consumption-based taxation, these fiscal externalities exactly offset each ...

    2003| Andreas Haufler, Michael Pflüger
  • Diskussionspapiere 331 / 2003

    Kinderbetreuung und Fertilität in Deutschland

    Eine zentrale Rolle in der aktuellen Diskussion um eine bessere Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf spielt die Versorgung mit bedarfsgerechter Kinderbetreuung. Eine umfassendes Angebot an Betreuungsplätzen fördert jedoch nicht nur die Müttererwerbstätigkeit, sondern könnte sich auch positiv auf Fertilitätsentscheidungen auswirken. Im vorliegenden Beitrag untersuchen wir auf Basis von Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen ...

    2003| Karsten Hank, Michaela Kreyenfeld, C. Katharina Spieß
  • Diskussionspapiere 330 / 2003

    Einkommensbezogene versus pauschale GKV-Beiträge: eine Begriffsklärung

    In letzter Zeit mehren sich die Stimmen, die das gegenwärtige System der Beitragserhebung in der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung, nämlich die Anknüpfung der Beiträge am Arbeitseinkommen, kritisieren und vorschlagen, zu einer einheitlichen Prämie je erwachsenem Versicherten nach dem Vorbild der Schweiz überzugehen. Die damit angeregte Diskussion leidet aber unter einer gewissen Vermengung von Begriffen, ...

    2003| Friedrich Breyer
  • Diskussionspapiere 329 / 2003

    Voting on Redistribution with Tax Evasion

    This paper analyzes voting on a linear income tax which is redistributed lump sum to the taxpayers. Individuals can evade taxes, which leads to penalties if evasion is detected. Since preferences satisfy neither single peakedness nor single crossing, an equilibrium may not exist. When it does exist, it may have interesting properties, in particular, the poor and the rich may form a coalition against ...

    2003| Rainald Borck
  • Diskussionspapiere 328 / 2003

    Trade, Technology and Labour Markets: Empirical Controversies in the Light of the Jones Model

    The deterioration of the income and employment position of unskilled workers in the OECD since the 1980s is a well-documented fact. The debate about the causes of this development is dominated by two competing hypotheses, "North-South Trade" ("globalisation") and technological progress. Several empirical methodologies have been used to identify and quantify the importance of these two explanations: ...

    2003| Michael Pflüger
  • Diskussionspapiere 327 / 2003

    Mis-Leading Indicators? The Argentinean Currency Crisis

    Despite the fact that Argentina has been suffering from recession for years the timing and severity of the recent currency crisis has surprised most observers. This paper analyzes whether the "early warning" or "signals" approach of Kaminsky (1998), Kaminsky/Lizondo/Reinhart (1998) and Kaminsky/Reinhart (1999) could have predicted the Argentinean currency crisis at an earlier point in time. Using a ...

    2003| Patricia Alvarez-Plata, Mechthild Schrooten
  • Diskussionspapiere 326 / 2003

    The German Retirement Benefit Formula: Drawbacks and Alternatives

    Wir diskutieren eine Reihe von Problemen der Rentenformel in der deutschen gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung (GRV). Wir zeigen, dass Bev¨olkerungsgruppen mit ¨uberdurchschnittlicher Lebenserwartung, insbesondere die besser Verdienenden, von den ¨ubrigen Versicherten subventioniert werden, da die Rentenformel Unterschiede in den gruppenspezifischen Lebenserwartungen nicht ber¨ucksichtigt. Außerdem f¨uhrt ...

    2003| Friedrich Breyer, Mathias Kifmann
  • Diskussionspapiere 325 / 2003

    Income Thresholds and Income Classes

    This paper proposes a method for detecting income classes based on the change-point problem. There is an increasing demand for such a method in the literature. Computation of polarization indices requires a pre-grouping of the incomes. Similarly, indices of social exclusion and sometimes indices of income inequality require detection of thresholds. The estimation procedure is implemented using a bootstrap ...

    2003| Conchita D'Ambrosio, Pietro Muliere, Piercesare Secchi
  • Diskussionspapiere 324 / 2003

    US Outlook and German Confidence: Does the Confidence Channel Work?

    One channel of business cycle shock transmission which gained attraction only recently is the confidence channel. The aim of the paper is to find out whether the confidence channel is actually working between the US and Germany. This is analysed using times series methods. In contrast to other studies the direct informational content of leading US indicators for German producer confidence and the significance ...

    2003| Gustav Adolf Horn
  • Diskussionspapiere 323 / 2003

    B2C eCommerce Strategy and Market Structure: The Survey Based Approach

    This paper follows two objectives: (i) It demonstrates the merits of the survey based approach to B2C eCommerce characteristics and company strategy, and (ii) it presents empirical evidence of the crucial importance of size and marketing investment in B2C eCommerce markets. It presents econometric estimates of the effects of company characteristics and company strategies on the performance of Viennese ...

    2003| Stefan W. Schmitz, Paul Peter Sint
  • Diskussionspapiere 322 / 2003

    New Firm Formation by Industry over Space and Time: A Multi-Level Analysis

    Wir untersuchen den Einfluss von Branchenmerkmalen, Standort und Veränderungen im Zeitablauf auf Neugründungen von Betrieben mit einem Mehr- Ebenen-Ansatz. Die Analyse bezieht sich auf Westdeutschland im Zeitraum 1983- 1997. Innovationsaktivitäten und die Ausprägung des technologischen Regimes haben offenbar einen wesentlichen Einfluss auf Gründungsaktivitäten. Es bestehen erhebliche Unterschiede zwischen ...

    2003| Michael Fritsch, Oliver Falck
  • Diskussionspapiere 321 / 2003

    Labor Supply of Married Females in Estonia

    In this paper we estimate the labor supply function for married females in Estonia. Particularly, we are interested in determining the elasticities of the weekly supply of hours with respect to hourly wage rates and with respect to nonlabor income. We adopt the two-step estimation procedure. In the first step, we obtain parameter estimates of the self-selection corrected wage equation. At this stage, ...

    2003| Boriss Siliverstovs, Dmitri Koulikov
  • Diskussionspapiere 320 / 2003

    The Politics of Endogenous Growth

    Is it politically feasible for governments to engineer endogenous growth? This paper illustrates two reasonable political decision mechanisms by which fiscal policy generates endogenous growth with a single accumulable factor, under a constant returns to scale production technology, and without production externalities. In the first mechanism, optimal policies are chosen by the government to maximize ...

    2003| Chetan Ghate, Paul J. Zak
  • Diskussionspapiere 319 / 2002

    A Nation-Wide Laboratory: Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys

    Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and selfselection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a method integrating interactive experiments and representative surveys thereby overcoming crucial weaknesses of both approaches. One of the major advantages of our approach ...

    2002| Ernst Fehr, Urs Fischbacher, Bernhard von Rosenbladt, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner
  • Diskussionspapiere 318 / 2002

    Stability Criteria and Convergence: The Role of the System of National Accounts for Fiscal Policy in Europe

    The standardisation of the European systems of national accounts has progressed significantly in recent years. Some room for interpretation remains in regard to some accounting standards, the periodicity of the data, and the quality of the forecasts of budget deficits. Yet national accounts data of the eurozone countries are now a reliable basis for macroeconomic policy decisions. The stability and ...

    2002| Tilman Brück, Andreas Cors, Klaus F. Zimmermann, Rudolf Zwiener
  • Diskussionspapiere 317 / 2002

    The Effect of Family Income during Childhood on Later-life Attainment: Evidence from Germany

    We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a good indicator of their lifetime socioeconomic attainment. By contrast with several US child outcome studies, we find that late-childhood income is a more important determinant of outcomes than early-childhood income, and income effects are not greater for poor households compared ...

    2002| Stephen P. Jenkins, Christian Schluter
  • Diskussionspapiere 316 / 2002

    Die Einstellung zum Euro: eine empirische Analyse mit Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP)

    In der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ist der Anteil der Personen, die sich im Zusammenhang mit der Einführung des Euro sorgen, hoch. Welche individuellen Eigenschaften das Vorliegen dieser Sorgen beeinflussen und wie diese sich im Zeitverlauf entwickeln, ist Gegenstand der Arbeit. In der psychologischen Angstforschung werden Sorgen als kognitive Komponente der Angst aufgefasst und sind somit als Einstellungen ...

    2002| Bettina Isengard, Thorsten Schneider
  • Diskussionspapiere 315 / 2002

    Assessing the Contribution of Public Capital to Private Production: Evidence from the German Manufacturing Sector

    Using time-series cross-section data from the manufacturing sector of the 11West German 'Bundesl ¨ander' (Federal States) from 1970 to 1996, I examine the impact of public capital on private production. My econometric analysis explicitly takes into account four of the most frequent specification issues in the context of time-series cross-section data analysis: serial correlation, groupwise heteroscedasticity, ...

    2002| Andreas Stephan
  • Diskussionspapiere 314 / 2002

    Do Leading Indicators Help to Predict Business Cycle Turning Points in Germany?

    Using a binary reference series based on the dating procedure of Artis, Kontolemis and Osborn (1997) different procedures for predicting turning points of the German business cycles were tested. Specifically, a probit model as proposed by Estrella and Mishkin (1997) as well as Markov-switching models were taken into consideration. The overall results indicate that the interest rate spread, the longterm ...

    2002| Ulrich Fritsche, Vladimir Kuzin
  • Diskussionspapiere 313 / 2002

    Outsourcing and the Demand for Low-skilled Labour in German Manufacturing: New Evidence

    This paper analyses how international outsourcing has affected the relative demand for low skilled workers in Germany during the 1990s. In contrast to previous empirical work, the single elements of the input-output-matrix are used to disentangle international outsourcing and trade in final goods more accurately. The main finding is that during the 1990s international outsourcing had a significant ...

    2002| Ingo Geishecker
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