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Studies analysing renewable energy (RE) market development usually investigate electricity capacity or investment. Characteristics, roles and determinants of trade with RE system components remain blurred. Policies are important in promoting RE utilization and innovation. Yet, their effect on determining exports remains ambiguous. The Porter hypothesis and the lead-market literature argue that environmental ...
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Applied Economics
46 (2014), 5, S. 503-526
| Felix Groba
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A Neoclassical production function is used to analyse the effects of knowledge spillovers via entrepreneurship on economic performance of 337 German districts. To take the spatial dependence structure of the data into account, a spatial Durbin model was estimated. The importance of the choice of the appropriate weight matrix is highlighted. Positive knowledge spillover effects via entrepreneurship ...
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Regional Studies
48 (2014), 5, S. 866-882
| Katharina Pijnenburg, Konstantin A. Kholodilin
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The benefits of dual apprenticeship programs are usually discussed in the context of reducing structural unemployment rates, especially among the young. Related to this, the long-run benefits of dual apprenticeship programs are extensively analyzed in the literature. However, empirical evidence regarding the short-run effects of the business cycle on the number of apprenticeships is scarce. In this ...
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Journal of Labor Research
35 (2014), Iss. 4, 412-422
| Guido Baldi, Imke Brüggemann-Borck, Thore Schlaak
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We empirically derive the welfare effects of a shift from joint to individual taxation of married households in Germany. For the welfare evaluation we estimate the preference heterogeneity and use normative welfare concepts proposed by Fleurbaey (2006) to address the difficulties of comparison between and aggregation of heterogeneous agents. Our results suggest that the normative choice of the welfare ...
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Finanzarchiv
70 (2014), 4, S. 599-624
| André Decoster, Peter Haan
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According to the literature on traditional banking, lenders often discriminate against female borrowers. However, studies of Peer-to-Peer lending in the United States find that female borrowers have better chances of obtaining funds than do males. We provide evidence on the success of female borrowers at a large German peer-to-peer lending platform. Our results show that there is no effect of gender ...
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German Economic Review
15 (2014), 4, S. 436-452
| Nataliya Barasinska, Dorothea Schäfer
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We here present the earliest input–output table of Germany: It covers forty economic branches, five final demand categories, and five primary inputs. The symmetric table for 1936 is completely based on original statistical data and does not rely on separate supply and use tables. The core of our endeavor is based on the German industrial census of 1936. The input–output table offers a new benchmark ...
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European Review of Economic History
18 (2014), 4, S. 371-397
| Rainer Fremdling, Reiner Stäglin
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Based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study, this article analyses the effects of workplace training in Germany on subjective job security. Using fixed-effects models, this article tests whether workplace training has positive effects on perceived job security, and if so, whether the returns are of a short- or long-term nature. The results confirm a positive effect of workplace training ...
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Journal of European Social Policy
24 (2014), 4, S. 337-350
| Bettina Kohlrausch, Anika Rasner
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Two literatures exist concerning cross-border merger activity's impact on domestic wages: one focusing on positive spillover effects; the other focusing on negative bargaining effects.Motivated by scarce theoretical scholarship spanning these literatures, we nest both mechanisms in a single conceptual framework. Considering the separate phenomena of inward and outward cross-border merger activity, ...
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Journal of International Business Studies
45 (2014), 4, 450-470
| Joseph A. Clougherty, Klaus Gugler, Lars Sörgard, Florian W. Szücs
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We study the effect of a merger in a dynamic high-technology industry—the videogame market—which is characterized by the frequent introduction of new products. To assess the impact of the merger between two large specialist retailers in the United Kingdom—Game Group PLC and Games Station Limited—we perform a difference-in-differences analysis comparing the price evolution of the merging parties with ...
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Journal of Competition Law & Economics
10 (2014), Iss. 4, S. 933-958
| Luca Aguzzoni, Elena Argentesi, Paolo Buccirossi, Lorenzo Ciari, Tomaso Duso, Massimo Tognoni, Christiana Vitale
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Based on a large, representative German household panel, we investigate to what extent the personality of individuals influences the entry decision into and the exit decision from self-employment. We reveal that some traits, such as openness to experience, extraversion, and risk tolerance affect entry, but different ones, such as agreeableness or different parameter values of risk tolerance, affect ...
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Small Business Economics
42 (2014), 4, S. 787-814
| Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos