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Using inpatient discharge records from the Italian region of Piedmont, we estimate the impact of an increase in malpractice pressure brought about by experience-rated liability insurance on obstetric practices. Our identification strategy exploits the exogenous location of public hospitals in court districts with and without schedules for noneconomic damages. We perform difference-in-differences analysis ...
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Health Economics
24 (2015), 9, S. 1050-1064
| Sofia Amaral-Garcia, Paola Bertoli, Veronica Grembi
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In Germany, individuals in need of long-term care receive support through benefits of the long-term care insurance. A central goal of the insurance is to support informal care provided by family members. Care recipients can choose between benefits in kind (formal home care services) and benefits in cash. From a budgetary perspective, family care is often considered a cost-saving alternative to formal ...
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Health Economics
24 (2015), 9, S. 1178-1191
| Johannes Geyer, Thorben Korfhage
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The scope of immigrants' transnational ties and the relationship to their social position is subject to a controversial debate that suggests a dualistic picture. On the one hand, globalization theorists argue that an elite of highly educated and economically most successful professionals intensively engages in and benefits from transnationality. On the other hand, most scholars in migration and assimilation ...
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Ethnic and Racial Studies
38 (2015), 9, S. 1497-1519
| Margit Fauser, Elisabeth Liebau, Sven Voigtländer, Hidayet Tuncer, Thomas Faist, Oliver Razum
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In impulse response analysis estimation uncertainty is typically displayed by constructing bands around estimated impulse response functions. If they are based on the joint asymptotic distribution possibly constructed with bootstrap methods in a frequentist framework, often individual confidence intervals are simply connected to obtain the bands. Such bands are known to be too narrow and have a joint ...
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Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
77 (2015), 6, S. 800-821
| Helmut Lütkepohl, Anna Staszewska-Bystrova, Peter Winker
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Since the onset of the economic reforms more than three decades ago, the Chinese growth miracle has been based on exports and investment. While strong output growth was maintained even during the financial crisis, imbalances within the country increased. To return to a more sustainable development path, recent government policies have aimed to improve the role of private consumption. This article argues ...
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Development and Change
46 (2015), 6, S. 1331-1344
| Christian Dreger, Tongsan Wang, Yanqun Zhang
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This article employs a simple model to describe bidding behavior in multi-unit uniform price procurement auctions when firms are capacity constrained. Using data from the New York City procurement auctions for power generating capacity, I find that firms use simple bidding strategies to coordinate on an equilibrium that extracts high rents for all bidders. I show theoretically and empirically that ...
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Rand Journal of Economics
46 (2015), 4, S. 730-750
| Sebastian Schwenen
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We study the impact of the Fukushima disaster on environmental concerns, well-being, risk aversion, and political preferences in Germany, Switzerland, and the UK. In these countries, overall life satisfaction did not significantly decrease, but the disaster significantly increased environmental concerns among Germans. One underlying mechanism likely operated through the perceived risk of a similar ...
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Journal of Population Economics
28 (2015), 4, S. 1137-1180
| Jan Goebel, Christian Krekel, Tim Tiefenbach, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
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We assess the effect of two antithetic non-monetary incentive schemes based on grading rules on students’ effort, using experimental data. We randomly assigned students to a tournament scheme that fosters competition between paired up students, a cooperative scheme that promotes information sharing and collaboration between students and a baseline treatment in which students can neither compete nor ...
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The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
15 (2015), 4, S. 1753-1792
| Maria Bigoni, Mattia Nardotto, Margherita Fort, Tommaso Reggiani
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This paper shows that bank liquidity regulation may be a "double-edged sword." Under certain conditions, it may hamper, rather than strengthen, a bank’s resilience to financial stress. The reason is the existence of two opposing effects of liquidity regulation, a liquidity effect and a solvency effect. The liquidity effect arises because a bank mitigates its risk of illiquidity when it increases its ...
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International Journal of Central Banking
11 (2015), 4, S. 129-168
| Philipp König
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Modernization processes are said to have caused major changes in individual social mobility outcomes. Whether the predictions of the logic of industrialism thesis hold for the careers of women is unclear however. This study provides the first systematic account of how regional modernization processes during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries influenced the careers of the female working population. ...
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European Societies
17 (2015), 4, S. 467-491
| Wiebke Schulz