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probability and severity of punishment - results in a reduction of crime due to deterrence. What appears to be a simple and straightforward hypothesis turns out to be a demanding task for empirical examination because "crime" is composed of many different offence categories and expected punishment is influenced by the actions and decisions of different institutions such as police, public prosecutor's ...
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Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
226 (2006), 6, S. 687-714
| Hannes Spengler
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Im Zuge des GKV-Modernisierungsgesetzes wird seit dem 1. 1. 2004 eine sog. Praxisgebühr von 10 Euro pro Quartal für ambulante Arzt- und Zahnarztbesuche erhoben. Neben einem Beitrag zur Konsolidierung der Finanzlage der GKV sollte die Praxisgebühr auch eine Verhaltensänderung der Versicherten bewirken. Der Beitrag zeigt auf, dass die Zahl der Arztbesuche im Jahre 2004 im Vergleich zum Jahr 2003 signifikant ...
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Medizinische Klinik
101 (2006), 6, S. 476-483
| Markus M. Grabka, Jonas Schreyögg, Reinhard Busse
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This study examines the export-led growth hypothesis using annual time series data from Chile. It addresses the problem of specification bias under which previous studies have suffered and focuses on the impact of manufactured and primary exports on the economic growth. In order to investigate if and how manufactured and primary exports affect economic growth via increases in productivity, the study ...
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Applied Economics Letters
13 (2006), 5, S. 319-324
| Boriss Siliverstovs, Dierk Herzer
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We analyse the effectiveness of fiscal policy rules for business cycle stabilisation in a monetary union using a quarterly macro-econometric model of Germany. The simulations compare a deficit target and an expenditure target under a range of supply, demand and fiscal shocks. Their effects are evaluated by their impact on prices and output. The analysis demonstrates that in general the deficit target ...
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Journal of Policy Modeling
28 (2006), 4, S. 357-369
| Tilman Brück, Rudolf Zwiener
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This article compares women's and men's economic relations in East and West Germany following the 1990 reunification to exemplify the impact of varying opportunity structures on women's relative contribution to family income. West Germany's takeover set in motion a rapid transformation of East German institutions and employment structures. The analysis shows that women in West Germany became less dependent ...
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Feminist Economics
12 (2006), 4, S. 643-665
| Heike Trappe, Annemette Soerensen
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In this article, we analyse the effects of emissions trading in Europe, with special reference to Germany. We look at the value of the flexibility gained by trading compared to fixed quotas. The analysis is undertaken with a modified version of the GTAP-E model using the latest GTAP version 6 database. It is based on the national allocation plans (NAP) as submitted to and approved by the EU. We find ...
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Climate Policy
6 (2006), 4, S. 441-455
| Claudia Kemfert, Michael Kohlhaas, Truong P. Truong, Artem Protsenko
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This paper analyzes the determinants of German exports to the euro area, which is the biggest market for German products. Three conditional error-correction models based on regionally disaggregated data are developed. One specification includes EMU industrial production and a real external value based on consumer prices, the other two use different EMU investment aggregates, the orresponding real external ...
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Empirical Economics
31 (2006), 4, S. 871-882
| Sabine Stephan
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This paper applies Verdoorn's and Okun's law to derive efficient estimates of the employment and unemployment threshold in the Unified Germany. The analysis is built on a disaggregated dataset of regional labour markets, where spatial dependencies are taken into account. Especially, a spatial SUR model is proposed utilising the eigenfunction decomposition approach suggested by Griffith (1996, 2000). ...
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Papers in Regional Science
85 (2006), 4, S. 523-542
| Reinhold Kosfeld, Christian Dreger
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A wildly discussed shortcoming of panel surveys is a potential bias arising from selective attrition. Based on data of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), the authors analyze potential artifacts (level, structure, income inequality) by comparing results for two independently drawn panel subsamples started in 1984 and 2000. They apply ANOGI (analysis of Gini) techniques, the equivalent of ...
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Sociological Methods & Research
34 (2006), 4, S. 427-468
| Joachim R. Frick, Jan Goebel, Edna Schechtman, Gert G. Wagner, Shlomo Yitzhaki
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This study compares several specifications of discrete choice labour supply estimations on basis of the German Socio Economic Panel. The results suggest that despite the restrictive assumptions of the error terms the conditional logit model provides an adequate model choice for the analysis of labour supply functions. Significance tests, which are based on bootstrapped confidence intervals, show that ...
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Applied Economics Letters
13 (2006), 4, S. 251-256
| Peter Haan