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This article analyses the determinants of Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) activities in the European Union (EU). Evidence is based on panel Poisson models drawing on two investment monitors at the individual project level. Greenfield investments (GI) and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are distinguished. The findings indicate that market size and bilateral trade are the main factors for Chinese ...
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Applied Economics
49 (2017), 42, S. 4231-4240
| Christian Dreger, Yun Schüler-Zhou, Margot Schüller
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Concerns about global warming and growing scarcity of fossil fuels require substantial changes in energy consumption patterns and energy systems, as targeted by many countries around the world. One key element to achieve such transformation is to increase energy efficiency of the housing stock. In this context, it is frequently argued that private investments are too low in the light of the potential ...
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Urban Studies
54 (2017), 14, S. 3218-3238
| Claus Michelsen, Andreas Mense, Konstantin Kholodilin
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The idea that birth-order position has a lasting impact on personality has been discussed for the past 100 years. Recent large-scale studies have indicated that birth-order effects on the Big Five personality traits are negligible. In the current study, we examined a variety of more narrow personality traits in a large representative sample (n = 6,500–10,500 in between-family analyses; n = 900–1,200 ...
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Psychological Science
28 (2017),12, S. 1821-1832
| Julia M. Rohrer, Boris Egloff, Stefan C. Schmukle
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The deployment of battery-powered electric bus systems within the public transportation sector plays an important role in increasing energy efficiency and abating emissions. Rising attention is given to bus systems using fast charging technology. This concept requires a comprehensive infrastructure to equip bus routes with charging stations. The combination of charging infrastructure and bus batteries ...
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International Journal of Sustainable Transportation
11 (2017), 10, S. 707-720
| Alexander Kunith, Roman Mendelevitch, Dietmar Goehlich
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This paper develops a path for the global energy system up to 2050, presenting a new application of the open-source energy modeling system (OSeMOSYS) to the community. It allows quite disaggregate energy and emission analysis: Global Energy System Model (GENeSYS-MOD) uses a system of linear equations of the energy system to search for lowest-cost solutions for a secure energy supply, given externally ...
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Energies
10 (2017), 10, S. 1-28
| Konstantin Löffler, Karlo Hainsch, Thorsten Burandt, Pao-Yu Oei, Claudia Kemfert, Christian von Hirschhausen
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The central limit theorem says that, provided an estimator fulfills certain weak conditions, then, for reasonable sample sizes, the sampling distribution of the estimator converges to normality. We propose a procedure to find out what a “reasonably large sample size” is. The procedure is based on the properties of Gini's mean difference decomposition. We show the results of implementations of the procedure ...
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Communications in Statistics : Simulation and Computation
46 (2017), 9, S. 7074-7087
| Carsten Schröder, Shlomo Yitzhaki
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We study the effects of reminders on people’s behavior in investment activities characterized by up-front costs and delayed benefits, such as getting an education and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. We conduct a field experiment and show that simple weekly reminders induce users of a gym to substantially increase their gym attendance over an extensive period. Users’ response to reminders is immediate ...
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Management Science
63 (2017), 9, S. 2915-2932
| Giacomo Calzolari, Mattia Nardotto
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Late-life well-being often shows steep deteriorations, but the contributing factors are not well understood, in part because data about people’s final year of life are scarce. Here, we draw from and test theoretical perspectives that health-related vulnerabilities undermine the experience and skills older adults typically use to maintain well-being (Charles, 2010). To do so, we examined how various ...
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Developmental Psychology
53 (2017), 9, S. 1795-1809
| Katharina Gerlach, Nilam Ram, Frank J. Infurna, Nina Vogel, Gert G. Wagner, Denis Gerstorf
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This study investigates social and ethnic differences in the use of early childhood education and care (ECEC) centers with different learning environments in an ECEC system with universal state-subsidized provision and low fees. Based on the German National Educational Panel Study—Kindergarten Cohort from 2011, we matched data on 587 groups in 253 ECEC centers with information on about 1,700 children ...
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Early Education and Development
28 (2017), 8, S. 1011-1034
| Birgit Becker, Pia S. Schober
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This paper assesses how far residential moves can result in improvement or deterioration of the housing and neighbourhood circumstances for families with young children. It uses data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study concentrating on the time between infancy and age 5, 2001 to 2006. First, we ask which families moved home and in what circumstances. We then examine how moving changed several aspects ...
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Population, Space and Place
23 (2017), 8, e2072
| Ludovica Gambaro, Heather Joshi, Ruth Lupton