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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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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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East Asia has been considered a latecomer with respect to Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). Since the turn of the last century, however, FTAs with East Asian participation have seen an intra- and extra-regional expansion. Many trade initiatives have been proposed, negotiated or even implemented. This introduces interesting perspectives for the analysis of trade agreements regarding their anticipatory trade ...
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Review of World Economics
147 (2011), 3, S. 429-456
| Florian Mölders, Ulrich Volz
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Perceived control plays an important role in shaping development throughout adulthood and old age. Using data from the adult lifespan sample of the national German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP; N > 10,000, covering 25 years of measurement), we explored long-term antecedents, correlates, and outcomes of perceived control and examined if associations differ with age. Targeting correlates and antecedents ...
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Psychology and Aging
26 (2011), 3, S. 559-575
| Frank J. Infurna, Denis Gerstorf, Nilam Ram, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner
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This paper extends the two-way flow model of network formation initiated by Bala and Goyal (Econometrica 68(5):1181-1230, 2000) by allowing for partner heterogeneity.In our model if a player i forms a link with player j, then she pays a cost of c j and gets benefits of V j . Our main result consists of the characterization of strict Nash networks. We find that the introduction of partner heterogeneity ...
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International Journal of Game Theory
40 (2011), 3, S. 515-525
| Pascal Billand, Christophe Bravard, Sudipta Sarangi
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We analyse the effect of mass violent conflict on individual expectations in Northern Uganda. We find that the expectations of the future economic situation are negatively affected by recent conflict while the effect on broadly defined welfare is less robust.
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Economics Letters
113 (2011), 3, S. 288-291
| Carlos Bozzoli, Tilman Brück, Tony Muhumuza
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The paper investigates the extent to which parental unemployment affects young people's far right-wing party affinity. Cross-sectional estimates from the German Socio-Economic Panel show a positive relationship between growing up with unemployed parents and support for the extreme right. The paper uses differences in parental unemployment experience during childhood across siblings to investigate a ...
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Journal of the Royal Statistical Society / Series A
174 (2011), 3, S. 737-758
| Thomas Siedler
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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
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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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Boone (2008a) proposes a new competition measure based on Relative Profit Differences (RPD) that, from its theoretical properties, proves to be more robust than the Lerner-Index. However, the proof of the empirical practicability and robustness of the Boone-Indicator is missing. To fill this gap, we use a rich, newly built, data set for German manufacturing enterprises and test its empirical validity ...
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Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
231 (2011), 3, S. 336-357
| Alexander Schiersch, Jens Schmidt-Ehmcke