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In the aftermath of Germany's reunification, redesigning their product range was a major challenge for East-German enterprises. At the same time, there were growing signs that Western enterprises reacted to globalization and European integration by increasingly pursuing strategies of specialization. Using representative micro data from Germany's system of register based, official firm surveys, this ...
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Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
227 (2007), 2, S. 168-186
| Bernd Görzig, Martin Gornig, Axel Werwatz
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This paper studies budget processes, both theoretically and experimentally. We compare the outcomes of bottom-up and top-down budget processes. It is often presumed that a top-down budget process leads to a smaller overall budget than a bottom-up budget process. Ferejohn and Krehbiel [Ferejohn, J., Krehbiel, K., 1987. The budget process and the sizeof the budget, Amer. J. Polit. Sci. 31, 296-320] showed ...
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Games and Economic Behavior
59 (2007), 2, S. 279-295
| Karl-Martin Ehrhart, Roy Gardner, Jürgen von Hagen, Claudia Keser
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We analyse competition between two network providers when the quality of each network depends negatively on the number of customers connected to that network. With respect to price competition we provide a sufficient condition for the existence of a unique pure strategy Nash equilibrium. Comparative statics show that as the congestion effect gets stronger quantities will decrease and prices increase, ...
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Journal of Economics
91 (2007), 2, S. 151-176
| Pio Baake, Kay Mitusch
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The German and Australian longitudinal surveys analysed here are the first national representative surveys to show that (1) people who continuously own a pet are the healthiest group and (2) people who cease to have a pet or never had one are less healthy. Most previous studies which have claimed that pets confer health benefits were cross-sectional. So they were open to the objection that owners may ...
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Social Indicators Research
80 (2007), 2, S. 297-311
| Bruce Headey, Markus M. Grabka
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A new method for constructing R&D capital stocks is proposed and tested. Following Schumpeter, the development of R&D capital stocks is modelled as a process of creative destruction. Newly generated knowledge is assumed not only to add to the existing R&D capital stocks but also, by displacing old knowledge, to destroy part of that capital. This is in stark contrast to the perpetual inventory method, ...
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Applied Economics
39 (2007), 2, S.179-189
| Jürgen Bitzer, Andreas Stephan
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Evidence during the nineties about the response of real wages to shocks highlights that this response is substantially lower in European countries than in the United States and that there are important differences among European countries. Which are the reasons that explain these different reactions? In this paper, we apply meta-analytical techniques in order to provide a quantitative summary of the ...
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Kyklos
60 (2007), 2, S. 145-163
| Miquel Clar, Christian Dreger, Raul Ramos
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Although left-right items are a standard tool of public opinion research, there is little agreement about the optimal response format. Two disputes can be identified in the literature: (1) whether to provide respondents with a small or large number of answer categories, and (2) whether or not to administer the response scale including a midpoint. This study evaluatesthe performance of the 101, 11, ...
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The Public Opinion Quarterly
71 (2007), 2, S. 204-220
| Martin Kroh
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In this paper a structural macroeconometric model for the Euro area is presented. In contrast to the multi-country modelling approach, the model relies on aggregate data on the supra-national level. Due to non-stationarity, all equations are estimated in error correction form. The cointegrating relations are derived jointly with the short-run dynamics, avoiding the finite sample bias of the two-step ...
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Journal of Policy Modeling
29 (2007), 1, S. 1-13
| Massimiliano Marcellino, Christian Dreger
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Nationwide car road pricing schemes are discussed across Europe. We analyse the impacts of such schemes with respect to environmental, economic and social indicators of sustainability, also quantifying the trade-offs among these three dimensions under different charging principles and revenue recycling options. In our analysis we employ a computable general equilibrium (CGE) approach, develop a modelling ...
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Ecological Economics
63 (2007), 1, S. 59-69
| Karl W. Steininger, Birgit Friedl, Brigitte Gebetsroither
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This paper outlines recent developments regarding road pricing in Britain. Given the widespread view that the London congestion pricing scheme has been a success, it was generally expected that road pricing would be more widely applied in Britain, and successive reports, including an official study for the Department for Transport, have examined the issue at a national level. However, implementation ...
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Journal of Transport Economics and Policy
41 (2007), 1, S. 135-147
| Chris Nash