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Despite political activities to foster a low-carbon energy transition, Germany currently sees a considerable number of new coal power plants being added to its power mix. There are several possible drivers for this "dash for coal", but it is widely accepted that windfall profits gained through free allocation of ETS certificates play an important role. Yet the quantification of allocation-related investment ...
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Energy Policy
39 (2011), 4, S. 1975-1987
| Michael Pahle, Lin Fan, Wolf-Peter Schill
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We estimate firms' cash flow sensitivity of cash to empirically test how the financial system's structure and level of development influence their financial constraints. For this purpose we merge Almeida et al.'s work, a path-breaking design for evaluating a firm's financial constraints, with that of Levine, who paved the way for comparative analysis of financial systems around the world. We conjecture ...
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Journal of International Money and Finance
30 (2011), 4, S. 678-691
| Christopher F. Baum, Dorothea Schäfer, Oleksandr Talavera
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Linkages between banks and insurance companies are important when forecasting the fragility of the banking and insurance sectors. We propose a novel empirical framework that allows us to estimate unobserved linkages in panel data sets that contain observed regressors. We find that taking unobserved common factors into account reduces the root mean square forecasts error of firm specific forecasts by ...
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Journal of Banking & Finance
35 (2011), 4, S. 807-818
| Kerstin Bernoth, Andreas Pick
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The importance of repeat and circular migration starts receiving rising recognition. The paper studies this behavior by analyzing the number of exits and the total number of years away from the host country using count data models and panel data from the German guestworker experience. Beyond the myth, more than 60% of migrants in the sample from the guestworker countries living in Germany are indeed ...
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Population Research and Policy Review
30 (2011), 4, S.495-515
| Amelie Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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We develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal feedback effects between these two outcomes. To identify the effect of financial incentives on employment and fertility we exploit variation in the tax and transfer system, which differs by employment state and number of children. Specifically, we simulate in detail the effects of the tax and transfer ...
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Labour Economics
18 (2011), 4, S. 498-512
| Peter Haan, Katharina Wrohlich
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This paper presents results about the determinants of export behaviour of services firms. Using a unique panel of enterprises for the years 2003 to 2005, the impact of size, productivity, human capital, experience on the national market, etc. on export behaviour are analysed. In addition, the researchers control for unobserved time-invariant characteristics by using a pooled fractional probit estimator. ...
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The Service Industries Journal
31 (2011), 4, S. 513-526
| Alexander Eickelpasch, Alexander Vogel
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The relationship between conflict and education has been studied before. However, previous authors have always focused strongly on the supply-side effects, whereas this article examines the influence of conflict on the demand for education. It is theoretically shown that, under relatively general conditions, individuals living in a conflict area have an incentive to increase their level of education ...
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The Journal of Conflict Resolution
55 (2011), 4, S. 652-677
| Olaf J. de Groot, Idil Göksel
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This paper studies the impact of buyer power on dynamic efficiency. We consider a bargaining model in which buyer power arises endogenously from size and may impact on a supplier's incentives to invest in lower marginal cost. We challenge the view frequently expressed in policy circles that the exercise of buyer power stifles suppliers' incentives. Instead, we find that the presence of larger buyers ...
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Journal of the European Economic Association
9 (2011), 4, S. 702-720
| Roman Inderst, Christian Wey
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This paper studies risk attitudes using a large representative survey and a complementary experiment conducted with a representative subject pool in subjects' homes. Using a question asking people about their willingness to take risks -in general -, we find that gender, age, height, and parental background have an economically significant impact on willingness to take risks. The experiment confirms ...
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Journal of the European Economic Association
9 (2011), 3, S. 522-550
| Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Uwe Sunde, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner
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Hedonism, or wanting to feel good, is central to human motivation. At times, however, people also seek to maintain or enhance negative affect or to dampen positive affect, and this can be instrumental for the later attainment of their goals. Here, we investigate the assumption that such contra-hedonic orientation is cognitively more demanding than prohedonic orientation, above and beyond the effects ...
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Emotion
11 (2011), 3, S. 656-665
| Michaela Riediger, Cornelia Wrzus, Florian Schmiedek, Gert G. Wagner, Ulman Lindenberger