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Using the Mannheim innovation panel, we investigate whether family firms have higher financial need and how this affects both innovation input and innovation outcomes such as firm or market novelties, or process innovation. Applying the CDM framework, we find that family firms are more likely to have a latent financial need for innovation, which means that they have innovation ideas which they have ...
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Small Business Economics
48 (2017), 4, S. 931-951
| Dorothea Schäfer, Andreas Stephan, Jennifer Solórzano Mosquera
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Objective: Previous research found that cognitive training increases the Big Five personality trait openness to experience during and some weeks after the intervention. The present study investigated whether long-term changes happen in openness to experience and other personality traits after an extensive cognitive training of memory and perceptual speed.Method: Intervention group consisted of 204 ...
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Journal of Personality
85(2017), 4, S. 454-463
| Julia Sander, Florian Schmiedek, Annette Brose, Gert G. Wagner, Jule Specht
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Background: Epidemiologic evidence for work stress as a risk factor for coronary heart disease is mostly based on a single measure of stressful work known as job strain, a combination of high demands and low job control. We examined whether a complementary stress measure that assesses an imbalance between efforts spent at work and rewards received predicted coronary heart disease. Methods: This multi-cohort ...
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Epidemiology
28 (2017), 4, S. 619-626
| Nico Dragano, Johannes Siegrist, Solja T. Nyberg, Thorsten Lunau, Eleonor I. Fransson, Lars Alfredsson, Jakob B Bjorner, Marianne Borritz, Hermann Burr, Raimund Erbel, Göran Fahlén, Marcel Goldberg, Mark Hamer, Katriina Heikkilä, Karl-Heinz Jöckel, Anders Knutsson, Ida E. H. Madsen, Martin L. Nielsen, Maria Nordin, Tuula Oksanen, Jan H. Pejtersen, Jaana Pentti, Reiner Rugulies, Paula Salo, Jürgen Schupp, Archana Singh-Manoux, Andrew Steptoe, Töres Theorell, Jussi Vahtera, Peter J.M. Westerholm, Hugo Westerlund, Marianna Virtanen, Marie Zins, G. David Batty, Mika Kivimäki
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We study the effectiveness of building energy codes, taking a long-run perspective. The focus is on regulation’s impact on energy demand in both high- and low-quality residences, in other words, the diffusion and the entry of “green” buildings in the housing market. We develop a measure for regulation intensity and apply this to a panel-error-correction regression model for energy requirements of a ...
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Land Economics
93 (2017), 4, S. 585-607
| Makram El-Shagi, Claus Michelsen, Sebastian Rosenschon
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We investigate the impact of a differential treatment of paid employees versus self-employed workers in a public health insurance system on the entry rate into self-employment. Health insurance systems that distinguish between the two sectors of employment create incentives or disincentives to start a business for different individuals. We estimate a discrete time hazard rate model of entry into self-employment ...
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Small Business Economics
49 (2017), 3, S. 647–669
| Frank M. Fossen, Johannes König
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This paper empirically examines reliance on collateral in different credit market segments—formal, semiformal and informal lending—of a developing rural financial market. Determinants of collateralization indicate that all three types of lenders price risk conventionally. Controlled for standard risk factors, however, formal lenders rely on collateral about 40 per cent more often than informal lenders. ...
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Economic Notes
46 (2017), 3, S. 587-632
| Carmen Kislat, Lukas Menkhoff, Doris Neuberger
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In a meta-analysis of 126 impact evaluation studies, we find that financial education significantly impacts financial behavior and, to an even larger extent, financial literacy. These results also hold for the subsample of randomized experiments (RCTs). However, intervention impacts are highly heterogeneous: financial education is less effective for low-income clients as well as in low- and lower-middle–income ...
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The World Bank Economic Review
31 (2017), 3, S. 611-630
| Tim Kaiser, Lukas Menkhoff
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In many countries organized as federations, fiscal equalization schemes have been implemented to mitigate vertical or horizontal imbalances. Such schemes usually imply that the member states of the federation can only partly internalize (marginal) tax revenue before redistribution. Aside from the internalized marginal revenue, referred to as the marginal tax-back rate, the remainder is redistributed. ...
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German Economic Review
18 (2017), 3, S. 377-409
| Timm Bönke, Beate Jochimsen, Carsten Schröder
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Single parents and unmarried couples are increasingly replacing the traditional nuclear family. This paper investigates if the greater variety in living arrangements contributes to increased resource disparities among children in Germany. Children in single parent families are disadvantaged in at least three dimensions decisive for their later achievements: material standard of living, parental education, ...
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German Economic Review
18 (2017), 3, S. 327-376
| Charlotte Bartels, Maximilian Stockhausen
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The paper aims at measuring the general state intervention in rental housing market in Germany from 1913 through 2015. Four policy classes are considered: Incentives for social housing, tenant protection, housing rationing, and rent controls. Based on a legislation analysis, for each class an index measuring the degree of regulation is constructed. The indices reflect dramatic increases in regulations ...
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Urban Research and Practice
10 (2017), 3, S. 267-328
| Konstantin A. Kholodilin