Susan Steiner, Lena Giesbert, Mirko Bendig
Hannover,
18.06.2010
- 19.06.2010| 6th Annual Conference of the Verein für Socialpolitik Research Committee Development Economics
Ingrid Tucci
Berlin,
17.06.2010
- 18.06.2010| Europäische Integrationsmodelle - ein Vergleich zwischen europäischen Ländern: Workshop der Schwarzkopf Stiftung
Gert G. Wagner
Hannover,
16.06.2010
| Wachstum und Wohlstand - Soziale Marktwirtschaft neu denken: Veranstaltung der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Büro Niedersachsen
Dorothea Schäfer
Berlin,
16.06.2010
| Anhörung des Finanzausschusses des deutschen Bundestages zum "Entwurf eines Gesetzes zur Umsetzung der geänderten Bankenrichtlinie und der geänderten Kapitaladäquanzrichtlinie"
Nicola Jentzsch, Caterina Giannetti, Giancarlo Spagnolo
Dublin, Irland,
14.06.2010
- 15.06.2010| International Credit and Financial Market Integration: After the Storm?: 8th INFINITI Conference on International Finance
Carlos Bozzoli
Gent, Belgien,
14.06.2010
- 15.06.2010| 4th Annual Research Workshop on the EU funded program "A Micro Level Analysis of Violent Conflict"
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 contains observed regressors. We find that taking unobserved common factors into account reduces the root mean square forecasts error of firm specific forecasts...
Kerstin Bernoth, Andreas Pick
Frankfurt am Main,
11.06.2010
| Research Seminar: Deutsche Bundesbank
Previous attempts at understanding the role of industrialization on son preference are confounded by the endogeneity of the industrialization process. This paper exploits an exogenous shift in the trade policy in India to study the impact of industrialization on son preference. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, I find that households are more likely to have a male child in regions with...
Tanika Chakraborty
Essen,
10.06.2010
- 12.06.2010| 24th Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE)
This paper analyzes the reservation wages of first and second generation migrants in Germany. Based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment, we empirically test and confirm the hypothesis that reservation wages increase from first to second generation migrants, other things equal. If the wage offer distribution is unknown, the reservation...
Amelie Constant, Annabelle Krause, Ulf Rinne, Klaus F. Zimmermann
Essen,
10.06.2010
- 12.06.2010| 24th Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE)
We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we compare total individual income of permanent adult residents, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West Germany over the fifteen years for which data are available. Using a fixed effects vector decomposition...
Heiko Peters, Tilman Brück
Essen,
10.06.2010
- 12.06.2010| 24th Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE)