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Theoretical work based on social identity theory predicts that population diversity undermines redistributive public policies. This article tests this proposition exploiting an exogenous shock in diversity due to Germany’s reunification. In contrast to previous work on ethno-linguistic or racial heterogeneity, we specifically analyze religious diversity, which is an increasingly relevant social cleavage ...
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Journal of Urban Economics
94 (2016), S. 1-12
| Ronny Freier, Benny Geys, Joshua Holm
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We analyze the electricity transmission planning process in Germany (Netzentwicklungsplan), which separates transmission expansion decisions from generation dispatch. We employ an economic modeling approach to analyze two different network planning settings. In the first setting, there is no trade-off between transmission network development and generation dispatch, as is currently the case in Germany. ...
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Energy Policy
94 (2016), S. 446-452
| Claudia Kemfert, Friedrich Kunz, Juan Rosellón
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Investigating the impact of family instability is important as more and more children experience different family changes in many industrialized countries. In this paper we examine the dynamics of family structure, looking at the potential effect of yearly maternal partnership transitions on adolescents’ locus of control. We aim at combining research on family instability with research on non-cognitive ...
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The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
16 (2016), 3, S. 1439-1471
| Frauke H. Peter, C. Katharina Spieß
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A shift from zonal to nodal pricing improves the efficiency of system operation. However, resulting price changes also shift surplus across generation and loads at different locations. As individual actors can lose, they might oppose any reform. We explore how allocation of financial transmission rights can be used to mitigate the distributional impact. The fundamental effects with regard to reference ...
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Energy Economics
60 (2016), S. 176-185
| Friedrich Kunz, Karsten Neuhoff, Juan Rosellón
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This study analyses the economic developments in Yemen from the 1970s to today in the context of the resource curse hypothesis. After a brief survey of the resource curse literature, using empirical data, historical accounts, and political (economic) analyses, I confirm that post-reunification Yemen suffers from an intense oil curse. The curse is evidenced by low genuine savings rates, oil-dependency, ...
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Resources Policy
49 (2016), S. 444-454
| Dawud Ansari
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e discuss the implications of two price zones (i.e., one northern and one southern bidding area) on the German electricity market. In the northern zone, continuous increases in capacity with low variable costs cause large regional supply surpluses in the market dispatch, while in the southern zone conventional capacity decreases. As the spatial imbalance of supply and load is increasing, the current ...
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Energy Economics
59 (2016), S. 365-381
| Jonas Egerer, Jens Weibezahn, Hauke Hermann
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Despite the benefits of smoke-free legislation on adult health, little is known about its impact on children's health. We examined the effects of tobacco control policies on the rate of emergency department (ED) visits for childhood asthma (N = 128,807), ear infections (N = 288,697), and respiratory infections (N = 410,686) using outpatient ED visit data in Massachusetts (2001 − 2010), New Hampshire ...
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Preventive Medicine
89 (2016), S. 278–285
| Summer Sherburne Hawkins, Sylvia Hristakeva, Mark Gottlieb, Christopher F. Baum
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The upheaval in global crude oil markets and the boom in shale oil production in North America brought scrutiny on the US export ban for crude oil from 1975. The ban was eventually lifted in early 2016. This paper examines the shifts of global trade flows and strategic refinery investments in a spatial, game-theoretic partial equilibrium model. We consider detailed oil supply chain infrastructure with ...
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Energy Policy
97 (2016), S. 258-266
| Lissy Langer, Daniel Huppmann, Franziska Holz
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This paper uses propensity score methods to analyse the effect of involuntary maternal job loss on children's non-cognitive skills. My analyses are based on a rich and nationwide random sample, the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) that includes information about maternal job loss and child behaviour and non-cognitive skills, in addition to a rich conditioning set. The results show that maternal ...
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Labour Economics
42 (2016), S. 43-63
| Frauke H. Peter
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This paper studies the reaction of the Euro's value against major currencies to sovereign rating announcements from Moody's, S&P and Fitch CRAs during the Eurozone debt crisis in 2010–2012 based on event study methodology combined with GARCH models. We also analyze how the yields of French, Italian, German and Spanish government long-term bonds were affected by CRA announcements. Our results reveal ...
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Journal of Financial Stability
24 (2016), S. 117-131
| Christopher F. Baum, Dorothea Schäfer, Andreas Stephan