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A vast academic literature illustrates that voter turnout is affected by the institutional design of elections (e.g., compulsory voting, electoral system, postal or Sunday voting). In this article, we exploit a simple Downsian theoretical framework to argue that the institutional framework of public good provision—and, in particular, the distribution of political and administrative competences across ...
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Public Choice
159 (2014), 3/4, S. 469-483
| Claus Michelsen, Peter Bönisch, Benny Geys
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In this note, we extend the Goyal and Joshi’s model of collaboration networks in oligopoly to multi-market situations. We examine the incentive of firms to form links and the architectures of the resulting equilibrium networks in this setting. We then present some results on efficient networks.
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The Annals of Regional Science
53 (2014), 2, S. 325-335
| Pascal Billand, Christophe Bravard, Subhadip Chakrabarti, Sudipta Sarangi
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We study how group membership affects behavior both when group members can and cannot interact with each other. Our goal is to isolate the contrasting forces that spring from group membership: a free-riding incentive leading to reduced effort and a sense of social responsibility that increases effort. In an environment with varying task difficulty and individual decision making as the benchmark, we ...
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The Southern Economic Journal
81 (2014), 2, 294-322
| Tibor Besedes, Cary deck, Sarah Quintanar, Sudipta Sarangi, Mikhail Shor
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To assess how capital stocks adapt to energy price changes, it is necessary to account for the impacts on different vintages of capital and to account separately for price-induced and autonomous improvements in the energy efficiency of capital stock. The results of econometric analysis for five manufacturing industries in 19 OECD countries between 1990 and 2005 indicate that higher energy prices resulted ...
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Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
68 (2014), 2, S. 340-356
| Jevgenijs Steinbuks, Karsten Neuhoff
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In this paper, we derive a new effect of trade liberalization on the quality of the environment. We show that in the presence of heterogeneous firms, the aggregate volume of emissions is influenced by a reallocation effect resulting from an increase in the relative size of more productive firms. The relative importance of this reallocation effect and the scale effect well-known from the literature ...
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Review of International Economics
22 (2014), 2, S. 209-225
| Udo Kreickemeier, Philipp M. Richter
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Following two parental leave reforms in West Germany, this research explores how child care and housework time changed among couples who have just had a child. The reform in 1992 extended the low paid or unpaid parental leave period, whereas the 2007 reform introduced income-dependent compensation and two "daddy months". This study contributes to the literature by examining different mechanisms on ...
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Journal of Social Policy
43 (2014), 2, S. 351-372
| Pia S. Schober
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This paper examines the stability of money demand and the forecasting performances of a broad monetary aggregate (M3), excess liquidity and excess inflation in predicting euro area inflation. The out-of sample forecasting performances are compared to a widely used alternative, the spread of interest rates. The results indicate that the evolution of M3 is still in line with money demand, even when observations ...
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International Journal of Forecasting
30 (2014), 2, S. 303-312
| Christian Dreger, Jürgen Wolters
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We analyse the impacts of changing employment patterns and pension reforms on the future level of public pensions across birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a microsimulation model and a rich data set that combines household survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and process-produced microdata from the German pension insurance. We account for cohort effects in ...
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Journal of Pension Economics and Finance
13 (2014), 2, S. 172-209
| Johannes Geyer, Viktor Steiner
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Objectives: To examine compliance with the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) as well as evaluate the BFHI and its components on breastfeeding initiation and duration overall and according to maternal education level. . - Design: Quasi-experimental study using data from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) from 2004 to 2008. . - Setting: Birth facilities in Maine. . - Participants: ...
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Archives of Disease in Childhood
99 (2014), 2, S. 138-143
| Summer Sherburne Hawkins, Ariel Dora Stern, Christopher F. Baum, Matthew W. Gillman
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Research in social psychology has shown individual variation in the tendency to compare one's own opinions and abilities with those of other people, raising the question of whether social comparisons are psychological dispositions. To test the empirical validity of this proposition, Gibbons and Buunk (1999) created an instrument, the Iowa-Netherlands Comparison Orientation Measure (INCOM), that measures ...
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Social Indicators Research
115 (2014), 2, S. 767-789
| Simone M. Schneider, Jürgen Schupp