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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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The ethnosizer, a new measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is proposed using information on language, culture, societal interaction, history of migration, and ethnic self-identification. A two-dimensional version classifies immigrants into four states: integration, assimilation, separation and marginalization. Results based on the German Socio-economic Panel for 2001 are as follows. ...
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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
69 (2009), 3, S. 274-287
| Amelie Constant, Liliya Gataullina, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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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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Governments willing to commit themselves to maintain carbon prices at or above a certain level face the challenge that their commitments need to be credible both for investors in low-carbon technology and for foreign governments. This article argues that governments can make such commitments by issuing long-term put option contracts on the price of CO2 allowances. This mechanism gives investors the ...
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Climate Policy
9 (2009), 1, S. 9-21
| Roland Ismer, Karsten Neuhoff
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About a decade ago the German Science Council requested a strengthening of academic research at the German economic research institutes to improve the academic foundation of policy advice - the traditional task of the institutes. Based on publications in SSCI journals, research output has since then improved remarkably in scope and quality and has involved an ever rising number of scholars within the ...
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Scientometrics
80 (2009), 1, S. 233-254
| Rolf Ketzler, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to study opinions and attitudes towards immigrants and minorities and their interactions with other barriers to minorities' economic integration. Specifically, the minority experts' own perceptions about these issues, the veracities and repercussions of unfavorable attitudes of natives are to be considered. Design/methodology/approach - Employing newly available ...
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International Journal of Manpower
30 (2009), 1/2, S. 5-14
| Amelie Constant, Martin Kahanec, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to study the determinants of naturalization of non-EU immigrant household heads with a fresh look at the role of integration and ethnicity. Design/methodology/approach - Employing data on immigrant household heads from the German Socioeconomic Panel differentiation is made among those who already have been naturalized, those who plan to take citizenship, and those ...
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International Journal of Manpower
30 (2009), 1/2, S. 70-82
| Amelie Constant, Liliya Gataullina, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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While global migration is increasing, internal EU migration flows have only increased slowly. This paper contributes to a better understanding of the determinants and scale of European migration. It surveys previous historical experiences and empirical findings including the recent Eastern enlargements. The determinants of migration before and after the 2004 enlargement and in the EU15 and EU10 countries ...
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Oxford Review of Economic Policy
24 (2008), 3, S. 428-452
| Anzelika Zaiceva, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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The paper investigates the role of human capital on immigrants' ethnic ties towards their home and host countries. Pre-migration characteristics dominate ethnic self-identification. Human capital acquired in the host country does not affect the attachment to the receiving country
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Economics Letters
98 (2008), 3, S. 235-239
| Laura Zimmermann, Liliya Gataullina, Amelie Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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This article advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models its determinants, and explores its explanatory power for economic performance. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the following elements: language, media, ethnic self-identification, ethnic networks, and residency plans. The two-dimensional concept ...
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Journal of the European Economic Association
6 (2008), 2-3, S. 424-433
| Amelie Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann