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The level of trust inherent in a society is important for a wide range of microeconomic and macroeconomic outcomes. This paper investigates how individuals' attitudes toward social and institutional trust are shaped by the political regime in which they live. The German reunification is a unique natural experiment that allows us to conduct such a study. Using data from the German General Social Survey ...
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Journal of Comparative Economics
37 (2009), 2, S. 251-269
| Helmut Rainer, Thomas Siedler
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This paper considers the impact of foreign aid flows on the risk of civil conflict. We improve on earlier studies on this topic by addressing the problem of the endogenous aid allocation using GDP levels of donor countries as instruments. A more structural addition to the literature is that we efficiently control for unobserved country specific effects in typical conflict onset and conflict continuation ...
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Journal of Development Economics
88 (2009), 2, S. 301-313
| Joppe de Ree, Eleonora E. M. Nillesen
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This paper examines whether financial institutions discriminate against entrepreneurs on the basis of gender. Using the cross-country Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS), we find some evidence that, compared to male-managed counterparts, female-managed firms are less likely to obtain a bank loan. In addition, our analysis suggests that female entrepreneurs are charged higher ...
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Journal of Comparative Economics
37 (2009), 2, S. 270-286
| Alexander Muravyev, Dorothea Schäfer, Oleksandr Talavera
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In Deutschland stehen für Fragen der empirischen Bildungsforschung bislang überwiegend Querschnittserhebungen zur Verfügung, die ergänzt werden durch länderspezifische bzw. gruppenspezifische Längsschnitterhebungen. Zudem sind diese in der Regel auf einzelne Übergänge im Bildungssystem fokussiert. Die Herausforderung einer lebensverlaufstheoretischen Bildungsforschung liegt jedoch in der Analyse von ...
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Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft
12 (2009), 2, S. 252-280
| Henning Lohmann, C. Katharina Spieß, Olaf Groh-Samberg, Jürgen Schupp
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We analyze the distribution of market income in Germany in the period 1992 to 2003 on the basis of an integrated dataset that encompasses the whole spectrum of the population, from the very poor to the very rich. We find a modest increase of the Gini coefficient, a substantial drop of median income and a remarkable growth of the income share accruing to the economic elite, which we define as the richest ...
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The Review of Income and Wealth
55 (2009), 2, S. 303-330
| Stefan Bach, Giacomo Corneo, Viktor Steiner
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This paper studies the determinants of the unusually high and volatile price differential between common (voting) shares and preferred (nonvoting) shares in Russia's emerging stock market. It focuses on three potential explanations for the price spread between these two classes of stock: the control contest model of the voting premium, the inferior liquidity of preferred shares, and the risk of expropriation ...
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Emerging Markets, Finance & Trade
45 (2009), 2, S. 21-43
| Alexander Muravyev
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This paper documents life cycle (or age) profiles of (log) household income, durable and non-durable consumption for Dutch households after explicitly controlling for time (or business cycle) effects and birth cohort effects. We find that both measures of consumption as well as income is clearly hump shaped over the life cycle. Hence, real consumption per household seems to track income over the life ...
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De Economist
157 (2009), 1, S. 107-120
| Rob Alessie, Joppe de Ree
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Governments willing to commit themselves to maintain carbon prices at or above a certain level face the challenge that their commitments need to be credible both for investors in low-carbon technology and for foreign governments. This article argues that governments can make such commitments by issuing long-term put option contracts on the price of CO2 allowances. This mechanism gives investors the ...
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Climate Policy
9 (2009), 1, S. 9-21
| Roland Ismer, Karsten Neuhoff
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This paper examines how electronic procurement influences firms' sourcing strategy. The relationship between the technology choice in a vertical structure is illustrated with respect to its impact on the coordination cost and the competition between suppliers. Hypotheses are tested using data from the e-Business W@tch survey. Assessing the relationship between the effect of electronic procurement on ...
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Transformations in Business & Economics
8 (2009), 1, S. 72-85
| Daniel Nepelski
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About a decade ago the German Science Council requested a strengthening of academic research at the German economic research institutes to improve the academic foundation of policy advice - the traditional task of the institutes. Based on publications in SSCI journals, research output has since then improved remarkably in scope and quality and has involved an ever rising number of scholars within the ...
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Scientometrics
80 (2009), 1, S. 233-254
| Rolf Ketzler, Klaus F. Zimmermann