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This paper expands Shleifer's (Rand J Econ 16:319-327, 1985) theory of yardstick competition and develops a modified yardstick competition mechanism (MYC), where the yardstick employed consists of a tariff basket and total costs. This mechanism has a significant information advantage: the regulator "only" needs to observe total costs, prices and output of all firms. The MYC mechanism can ensure a socially ...
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Journal of Regulatory Economics
35 (2009), 3, S. 223-245
| Georg Meran, Christian von Hirschhausen
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Most models that are used to analyze support policies for renewable electricity neglect important market features like oligopolistic behavior, emission trading, and restricted cross-border transmission capacities. We use a quantitative electricity market model that accounts for these aspects and decompose the impact of the German Feed-in tariff (FIT) into two frequently counteracting effects: a substitution ...
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The Energy Journal
30 (2009), 3, S. 155-178
| Thure Traber, Claudia Kemfert
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This paper compares relative unit labor cost developments ill the countries of the euro area since the beginning of the European Monetary Union (EMU) both with historical developments and with intraregional developments in the United States and Germany Unit labor cost indices for the U.S. states and census regions from 1977 to 1997 as well as for the German Lander from 1970 to 2004 have been constructed. ...
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Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics
31 (2009), 3, S. 431-457
| Sebastian Dullien, Ulrich Fritsche
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In this study we compare the traditional OLS approach applied to the log-linear form of the gravity model with the Poisson Quasi Maximum Likelihood (PQML) estimation procedure applied to the non-linear multiplicative specification of the gravity model. We use the trade flows for all products, for all manufacturing products as well as for manufacturing products broken down by three-digit ISIC Rev.2 ...
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Empirical Economics
36 (2009), 3, S. 645-669
| Boriss Siliverstovs, Dieter Schumacher
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This paper examines success factors for five emerging innovations in the electricity system under the influence of current environmental and economic paradigms such as climate policy and market liberalisation. It widens the conventional focus on technological innovations to encompass organisational and behavioural innovations. The investigation builds on five empirical studies of recent developments ...
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Gaia
18 (2009), 3, S. 221-228
| Barbara Praetorius
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In Europe, two market designs are discussed for electricity trade and transmission. We argue that their performance in the presence of market power can be represented by two models from the literature. In contrast to examples for simple two-node networks, we show that in more complex networks a general ranking of both designs is not possible. Hence, computational models are required to evaluate the ...
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Operations Research
57 (2009), 2, S. 274-286
| Andreas Ehrenmann, Karsten Neuhoff
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When potential income tax reforms are debated, the suspected impact on entrepreneurship is often used as an argument in favour of or against a certain policy. Quantitative ex-ante evaluations of the effect of certain tax reform options on entrepreneurship are very rare, however. This paper estimates the ex-ante effects of the German tax reform 2000 and of two hypothetical flat-rate tax scenarios on ...
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Fiscal Studies
30 (2009), 2, S. 179-218
| Frank M. Fossen
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In Deutschland stehen für Fragen der empirischen Bildungsforschung bislang überwiegend Querschnittserhebungen zur Verfügung, die ergänzt werden durch länderspezifische bzw. gruppenspezifische Längsschnitterhebungen. Zudem sind diese in der Regel auf einzelne Übergänge im Bildungssystem fokussiert. Die Herausforderung einer lebensverlaufstheoretischen Bildungsforschung liegt jedoch in der Analyse von ...
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Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft
12 (2009), 2, S. 252-280
| Henning Lohmann, C. Katharina Spieß, Olaf Groh-Samberg, Jürgen Schupp
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This paper examines whether financial institutions discriminate against entrepreneurs on the basis of gender. Using the cross-country Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS), we find some evidence that, compared to male-managed counterparts, female-managed firms are less likely to obtain a bank loan. In addition, our analysis suggests that female entrepreneurs are charged higher ...
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Journal of Comparative Economics
37 (2009), 2, S. 270-286
| Alexander Muravyev, Dorothea Schäfer, Oleksandr Talavera
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The level of trust inherent in a society is important for a wide range of microeconomic and macroeconomic outcomes. This paper investigates how individuals' attitudes toward social and institutional trust are shaped by the political regime in which they live. The German reunification is a unique natural experiment that allows us to conduct such a study. Using data from the German General Social Survey ...
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Journal of Comparative Economics
37 (2009), 2, S. 251-269
| Helmut Rainer, Thomas Siedler