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We evaluate the economic impact of the change in European merger legislation in 2004 and propose a general framework focusing on four different policy dimensions: predictability, decision errors, reversion of anti-competitive rents and deterrence. We find that after the reform, the predictability and the accuracy of decisions have improved. Yet, the policy shift away from prohibitions, which entail ...
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The Economic Journal
123 (2013), 572, S. F596-F619
| Tomaso Duso, Klaus Gugler, Florian Szücs
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Many Colombians are confronted with the ongoing conflict that influences their decision making in everyday life, including their behavior in labor markets. This study focuses on the impact of violent conflict on self-employment, enlarging the usual determinants with a set of conflict variables. Our estimation strategy compares three different estimates: one from fixed-effects panel data (OLS-FE), estimates ...
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The Journal of Conflict Resolution
57 (2013), 1, S. 117-142
| Carlos Bozzoli,Tilman Brück, Nina Wald
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Linking survey data with administrative records is becoming more common in the social sciences in recent years. Regulatory frameworks require the respondent's consent to this procedure in most cases. Similar to non-response, non-consent may lead to selective samples and could pose a problem when using the combined data for analyses. Thus investigating the selectivity and the determinants of the consent ...
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Survey Research Methods
7 (2013), 2, S. 115-131
| Julie M. Korbmacher, Mathis Schröder
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Using data from national socio-economic panel surveys in Australia, Britain and Germany, this paper analyzes the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that, in all three countries, preferences and choices relating to life goals/values, partner's personality, hours of work, social participation and healthy lifestyle have substantial and similar effects ...
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Social Indicators Research
112 (2013), 3, S. 725-748
| Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels, Gert G. Wagner
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The paper investigates whether transforming a time series leads to an improvement in forecasting accuracy. The class of transformations that is considered is the Box-Cox power transformation, which applies to series measured on a ratio scale. We propose a nonparametric approach for estimating the optimal transformation parameter based on the frequency domain estimation of the prediction error variance, ...
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International Journal of Forecasting
29 (2013), 1, S. 88-99
| Tommaso Proietti, Helmut Lütkepohl
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Many contemporaneously aggregated variables have stochastic aggregation weights. We compare different forecasts for such variables, including univariate forecasts of the aggregate, a multivariate forecast of the aggregate that uses information from the disaggregated components, a forecast which aggregates a multivariate forecast of the disaggregate components and the aggregation weights, and a forecast ...
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International Journal of Forecasting
29 (2013), 1, S. 60-68
| Ralf Brüggemann, Helmut Lütkepohl
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OBJECTIVE: We examined the extent to which retrospective proxy reports of well-being mirror participant self-reports at 12-24 months before death and how proxy reports of well-being change over the last year of life. We also explored the role of sociodemographic, cognitive, and health factors of both participants and proxies in moderating such associations.Method.We used retrospective proxy ratings ...
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The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
69 (2014), 5, S. 695-709
| Frank J. Infurna, Denis Gerstorf, Nilam Ram, Jürgen Schupp, Mirjam A. G. Sprangers, Gert G. Wagner
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The large-scale natural gas equilibrium model applied in Egging, 2013 combines long-term market equilibria and investments in infrastructure while accounting for market power by certain suppliers. Such models are widely used to simulate market outcomes given different scenarios of demand and supply development, environmental regulations and investment options in natural gas and other resource markets.. ...
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European Journal of Operational Research
231 (2013), 2, S. 503-506
| Daniel Huppmann
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The aim of this study is to estimate the causal effect of family size on the proximity between older mothers and adult children by using a large administrative data set from Sweden. Our main results show that adult children in Sweden are not constrained by sibship size in choosing where to live: for families with more than one child, sibship size does not affect child-mother proximity. For aging parents, ...
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Demography
50 (2013), 3, S. 903-931
| Helena Holmlund, Helmut Rainer, Thomas Siedler
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In social science literature there is a wide range of effectiveness studies for early education and care programmes for young children. But these studies usually distinguish the effects of these programmes without considering their costs. This is where efficiency analysis studies in Economics begin. This article presents three fundamental approaches to efficiency analysis before looking in more detail ...
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Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft
16 (2013), 2, S. 333-354
| C. Katharina Spieß
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This study presents results of the validation of an ultra-short survey measure of patience included in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Survey responses predict intertemporal choice behavior in incentive-compatible decisions in a representative sample of the German adult population.
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Economics Letters
120 (2013), 2, S. 142-145
| Thomas Vischer, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Jürgen Schupp, Uwe Sunde, Gert G. Wagner
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Studies on health effects of unemployment usually neglect spillover effects on spouses. This study specifically investigates the effect of an individual's unemployment on the mental health of their spouse. In order to allow for causal interpretation of the estimates, it focuses on plant closure as entry into unemployment, and combines difference-in-difference and matching based on entropy balancing ...
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Journal of Health Economics
32 (2013), 3, S. 546-558
| Jan Marcus
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We exploit a dataset that includes the individual tax returns of all taxpayers in the top percentile of the income distributionin Germany to pin down the effective income taxation of households with very high incomes. Taking tax base erosion intoaccount, we find that the top percentile of the income distribution pays an effective average tax rate of 30.5% and contributes more than a quarter of total ...
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German Economic Review
14 (2013), 2, S. 115-137
| Stefan Bach, Giacomo Corneo, Viktor Steiner
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This paper tests whether upstream R&D cooperation leads to downstream collusion. We show that a sufficient condition for identifying collusive behavior is a decline in the market share of RJV-participating firms. Using information from the U.S. National Cooperation Research Act, we estimate a market share equation correcting for the endogeneity of RJV participation and R&D expenditures. We find robust ...
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The Review of Economics and Statistics
96 (2014), 2, S. 349-370
| Tomaso Duso, Lars-Hendrik Röller, Jo Seldeslachts
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This paper estimates the impact of competition policy on total factor productivity (TFP) growth for 22 industries in 12 OECD countries over 1995-2005. We find a positive and significanteffect of competition policy as measured by newly created indexes. We provide results based on instrumental variables estimators and heterogeneous effects to support the causal nature of the established link. The effect ...
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The Review of Economics and Statistics
95 (2013), 4, S. 1324-1336
| Paolo Buccirossi, Lorenzo Ciari, Tomaso Duso, Giancarlo Spagnolo, Cristiana Vitale
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We examine how children aged zero to 6 years with migration background and those who live with lone parents, or on low income or social assistance differ from other less disadvantaged groups in their use of formal ECEC services and non-formal education activities. Previous studies have shown that attendance rates are lower for children in some of these groups, who might benefit disproportionately from ...
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Child Indicators Research
6 (2013), 4, S. 709-735
| Pia S. Schober, C. Katharina Spieß
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Welfare state interventions shape our life courses in almost all of their multiply linked domains. In this introduction, we sketch how cross-nationally comparative retrospective data can be fruitfully employed to better understand these links and the long-run effects of the welfare state at the same time. We briefly introduce SHARE, the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, and SHARELIFE, ...
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Advances in Life Course Research
18 (2013), 1, S. 1-4
| Axel Börsch-Supan, Martina Brandt, Mathis Schröder
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This study investigates the effects of maternal education on child's health and health behavior. We draw on a rich German panel data set containing information about three generations. This allows instrumenting maternal education by the number of her siblings while conditioning on grandparental characteristics. The instrumental variables approach has not yet been used in the intergenerational context ...
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Review of Economics of the Household
11 (2013), 1, S. 29-54
| Daniel Kemptner, Jan Marcus
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The discussion of the support for renewable energy must consider the distributional impact of cost allocation. The public is sensitive to social imbalances caused by rising power prices that might jeopardize the acceptance of energy transformation. By the end of 2012 about 19 percent of German power is produced with renewables other than hydropower. As a result, German consumers will pay for global ...
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Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy
2 (2013), 1, S. 41-54
| Karsten Neuhoff, Stefan Bach, Jochen Diekmann, Martin Beznoska, Tarik El-Laboudy
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The paper assesses the heterogeneity of treatment effects arising from variation in the duration of training. We use German administrative data that have the extraordinary feature that the amount of treatment varies continuously from 10 days to 395 days (i.e. 13 months). This feature allows us to estimate a continuous dose-response function that relates each value of the dose, i.e. days of training, ...
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Journal of the Royal Statistical Society / Series A
175 (2013), Part 2, S. 567-617
| Jochen Kluve, Hilmar Schneider, Arne Uhlendorff, Zhong Zhao