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We consider fiscal competition between jurisdictions. Capital taxes are used to finance a public input and two public goods: one that benefits mobile skilled workers and one that benefits immobile unskilled workers. We derive the jurisdictions' reaction functions for different spending categories. We then estimate these reaction functions using data from German communities. Thereby we explicitly allow ...
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Finanzarchiv
63 (2007), 2, S. 264-277
| Rainald Borck, Marco Caliendo, Viktor Steiner
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In the aftermath of Germany's reunification, redesigning their product range was a major challenge for East-German enterprises. At the same time, there were growing signs that Western enterprises reacted to globalization and European integration by increasingly pursuing strategies of specialization. Using representative micro data from Germany's system of register based, official firm surveys, this ...
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Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
227 (2007), 2, S. 168-186
| Bernd Görzig, Martin Gornig, Axel Werwatz
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We present a new estimate of Anglo-German manufacturing productivity levels for 1935/36. It is based on archival data on German manufacturing and published British census data. We calculate comparative levels of value added, correcting for differences in prices for outputs and inputs. This so-called double deflation procedure provides new insights into productivity comparisons because output- and input ...
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The Journal of Economic History
67 (2007), 2, S. 350-378
| Rainer Fremdling, Herman De Jong, Marcel P. Timmer
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In Germany, processes can be observed that have long been out of keeping with the principle of equality of opportunity. Unemployment is concentrated in the structurally weak peripheral areas, in Eastern Germany in particular; emigration of young and better-educated people to the West is not diminishing, but contrary to expectation is again on the increase; aging processes have set in already, and when ...
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Social Indicators Research
83 (2007), 2, S. 283-307
| Annette Spellerberg, Denis Huschka, Roland Habich
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Evidence during the nineties about the response of real wages to shocks highlights that this response is substantially lower in European countries than in the United States and that there are important differences among European countries. Which are the reasons that explain these different reactions? In this paper, we apply meta-analytical techniques in order to provide a quantitative summary of the ...
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Kyklos
60 (2007), 2, S. 145-163
| Miquel Clar, Christian Dreger, Raul Ramos
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Although left-right items are a standard tool of public opinion research, there is little agreement about the optimal response format. Two disputes can be identified in the literature: (1) whether to provide respondents with a small or large number of answer categories, and (2) whether or not to administer the response scale including a midpoint. This study evaluatesthe performance of the 101, 11, ...
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The Public Opinion Quarterly
71 (2007), 2, S. 204-220
| Martin Kroh
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This study examines the export-led growth hypothesis using annual time series data from Chile in a production function framework. It addresses the problem of specification bias under which previous studies have suffered, and focuses on the impact of manufactured and mining exports on productivity growth. In order to investigate if and how manufactured and mining exports affect economic growth via increases ...
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Applied Economics
39 (2007), 2, S. 153-167
| Boriss Siliverstovs, Dierk Herzer
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Within a wide range of other economic and financial indicators, money is highly relevant to the two-pillar monetary strategy of the European Central Bank for detecting risks to price stability over the medium term. Money demand models are a natural benchmark for assessing monetary developments. The existence of a well-specified and stable relation between money and prices can be perceived as a prerequisite ...
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Eastern European Economics
45 (2007), 2, S. 75-94
| Christian Dreger, Hans-Eggert Reimers, Barbara Roffia
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We analyse competition between two network providers when the quality of each network depends negatively on the number of customers connected to that network. With respect to price competition we provide a sufficient condition for the existence of a unique pure strategy Nash equilibrium. Comparative statics show that as the congestion effect gets stronger quantities will decrease and prices increase, ...
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Journal of Economics
91 (2007), 2, S. 151-176
| Pio Baake, Kay Mitusch
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The German and Australian longitudinal surveys analysed here are the first national representative surveys to show that (1) people who continuously own a pet are the healthiest group and (2) people who cease to have a pet or never had one are less healthy. Most previous studies which have claimed that pets confer health benefits were cross-sectional. So they were open to the objection that owners may ...
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Social Indicators Research
80 (2007), 2, S. 297-311
| Bruce Headey, Markus M. Grabka