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In this study we compare the traditional OLS approach applied to the log-linear form of the gravity model with the Poisson Quasi Maximum Likelihood (PQML) estimation procedure applied to the non-linear multiplicative specification of the gravity model. We use the trade flows for all products, for all manufacturing products as well as for manufacturing products broken down by three-digit ISIC Rev.2 ...
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Empirical Economics
36 (2009), 3, S. 645-669
| Boriss Siliverstovs, Dieter Schumacher
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This paper expands Shleifer's (Rand J Econ 16:319-327, 1985) theory of yardstick competition and develops a modified yardstick competition mechanism (MYC), where the yardstick employed consists of a tariff basket and total costs. This mechanism has a significant information advantage: the regulator "only" needs to observe total costs, prices and output of all firms. The MYC mechanism can ensure a socially ...
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Journal of Regulatory Economics
35 (2009), 3, S. 223-245
| Georg Meran, Christian von Hirschhausen
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Most models that are used to analyze support policies for renewable electricity neglect important market features like oligopolistic behavior, emission trading, and restricted cross-border transmission capacities. We use a quantitative electricity market model that accounts for these aspects and decompose the impact of the German Feed-in tariff (FIT) into two frequently counteracting effects: a substitution ...
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The Energy Journal
30 (2009), 3, S. 155-178
| Thure Traber, Claudia Kemfert
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Does tax policy affect entrepreneurial choice? We use two tax reforms in Germany as "natural experiments". These reforms reduced the marginal income tax rate for entrepreneurs with income above a certain threshold, with the exception of freelance professionals. The two conditions for belonging to the treatment group allow us to apply a "difference-in-difference-in-difference" identification strategy ...
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Empirical Economics
36 (2009), 3, S. 487-513
| Frank M. Fossen, Viktor Steiner
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Für die Betrachtung haushaltsinterner Ungleichheit ist die Frage zentral, welche Faktoren partnerschaftliche Machtungleichgewichte determinieren. Der sozialen Austauschtheorie, der Ressourcentheorie und dem Cooperative-Bargaining-Modell zufolge basiert Macht auf dem Besitz individueller Ressourcen, vor allem des Einkommens. Diese Studie untersucht den Einfluss des individuellen Einkommens ebenso wie ...
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Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
61 (2009), 3, S. 327-353
| Yvonne Lott
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This paper analyzes voting on a linear income tax whose proceeds are redistributed lump sum to the taxpayers. Individuals can evade taxes, which leads to penalties if evasion is detected. Since preferences satisfy neither single peakedness nor single crossing, a voting equilibrium may not exist. When an equilibrium does exist, there are several possible outcomes. There may be 'conventional' equilibria ...
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Social Choice and Welfare
32 (2009), 3, S. 439-454
| Rainald Borck
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This article introduces a special issue on the micro-level dynamics of mass violent conflict. While most analyses of conflict typically adopt a regional, national or global perspective, often using country-level data, this special issue takes an explicit micro-level approach, focusing on the behaviour and welfare of individuals, households and groups or communities. At a fundamental level, conflict ...
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Journal of Peace Research
46 (2009), 3, S. 307-314
| Philip Verwimp, Patricia Justino, Tilman Brück
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This article analyzes the effects of household-level activity choices on farm household welfare in a developing country affected by mass violent armed conflict. The study uses household survey data from postwar Nampula and Cabo Delgado provinces in Northern Mozambique capturing many activity choices, including market participation, risk and activity diversification, cotton adoption, and social exchange, ...
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Journal of Peace Research
46 (2009), 3, S. 377-397
| Carlos Bozzoli, Tilman Brück
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We model competition between two unregulated mobile phone companies with price-elastic demand and less than full market coverage. We also assume that there is a regulated full-coverage fixed network. In order to induce stronger competition, mobile companies could have an incentive to raise their reciprocal mobile-to-mobile access charges above the marginal costs of termination. Stronger competition ...
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Journal of Economics
96 (2009), 3, S. 241-261
| Pio Baake, Kay Mitusch
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We experimentally test the efficacy of indenture as a self-enforced contract device. In an indenture game, the principal signals the intention of payment on delivery by tearing a banknote in half and giving the agent one half of it as "prepayment"; the agent receives the completing half after delivering the service. By forward induction, cooperation is incentive-compatibly self-enforcing. The indenture ...
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The Southern Economic Journal
75 (2009), 3, S. 857-872
| Alexander S. Kritikos, Jonathan H. W. Tan