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This article surveys the experience of conditionality provisions applied by the World Bank, the IMF, bilateral donors, and the European Union's accession process. Ownership is essential for effective cooperation and requires domestic climate policies to be country-driven and decision-making to be equitable. Bilateral cooperation allows for a direct exchange of expertise and long-term relationships. ...
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Climate Policy
9 (2009), 5, S. 481-494
| Maike Sippel, Karsten Neuhoff
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In developing and transition economies, microlending has become an effective instrument for providing micro businesses with the necessary financial resources to launch operations. In industrialized countries, with their highly developed banking systems, however, there has been ongoing debate on the question of whether an uncovered demand for microlending services exists. The present pilot study explores ...
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Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
229 (2009), 5, S. 523-543
| Alexander S. Kritikos, Christoph Kneiding, Claas Christian Germelmann
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Using a research design that traces siblings' preferences for postmaterialist values in Germany over two decades, this article provides new evidence on the origins of value preferences. Focusing on Inglehart's thesis of value change, the combined socialisation and scarcity hypothesis is tested against the social learning hypothesis - a prominent rival account of preadult value preference formation. ...
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European Journal of Political Research
48 (2009), 5, S. 598-621
| Martin Kroh
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For a long time, the social policy discussion in Germany has been heavily dominated by income inequality and poverty risk rates, while at the same time the analysis of personal wealth distribution was underdeveloped, last but not least due to a severe lack of appropriate data. Using representative micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), this paper analyzes individual level information ...
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Berliner Journal für Soziologie
19 (2009), 4, S. 577-600
| Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka
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Mit der Unternehmensteuerreform 2008 wird es Personenunternehmen ermöglicht, Gewinne, die im Unternehmen verbleiben sollen, ermäßigt zu besteuern. Werden diese ermäßigt versteuerten Gewinne zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt entnommen, erfolgt eine Nachbelastung in Höhe von 25 % zzgl. Solidaritätszuschlag. Einen kurzfristigen steuerlichen Anreiz zur ermäßigt besteuerten Gewinneinbehaltung gibt es somit auf ...
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Betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis
61 (2009), 4, S. 422-437
| Michael Broer, Nadja Dwenger
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We measure trust and trustworthiness in British society with a newly designed experiment using real monetary rewards and a sample of the British population. The study also asks the typical survey question that aims to measure trust, showing that it does not predict 'trust' as measured in the experiment. Overall, about 40% of people were willing to trust a stranger in our experiment, and their trust ...
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Journal of the Royal Statistical Society / Series A
172 (2009), 4, S. 749-769
| John Ermisch, Diego Gambetta, Heather Laurie, Thomas Siedler, S. C. Noah Uhrig
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Taller populations are typically richer populations, and taller individuals live longer and earn more. In consequence, adult height has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between health and wealth. We investigate the childhood determinants of population adult height, focusing on the respective roles of income and of disease. Across a range of European countries and the United ...
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Demography
46 (2009), 4, S. 647-669
| Carlos Bozzoli, Angus Deaton, Climent Quintana-Domeque
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We show that any decision maker who "narrowly brackets" (evaluates decisions separately) and does not have constant-absolute-risk-averse preferences will make a first-order stochastically dominated combined choice in some simple pair of independent binary decisions. We also characterize the preference-contingent monetary cost from this mistake. Empirically, in a real-stakes laboratory experiment that ...
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The American Economic Review
99 (2009), 4, S. 1508-1543
| Matthew Rabin, Georg Weizsäcker
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The German Renewable Energy Act (EEG) has been very successful in promoting the deployment of renewable electricity technologies in Germany. The increasing share of EEG power in the generation portfolio, increasing amounts of fluctuating power generation, and the growing European integration of power markets governed by competition calls for a re-design of the EEG. In particular, a more efficient system ...
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Energy Policy
37 (2009), 4, S. 1289-1297
| Ole Langniß, Jochen Diekmann, Ulrike Lehr
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Extensive research efforts notwithstanding, scholars continue to disagree on the nature and meaning of party identification. Traditionalists conceive of partisanship as a largely affective attachment to a political party that emerges in childhood through parental influences and tends to persist throughout life. The revisionist conception of partisanship is that of a running tally of party utilities ...
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Political Behavior
31 (2009), 4, S. 559-574
| Martin Kroh, Peter Selb