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Dieser Beitrag skizziert vor dem Hintergrund der Diskussionen um den Aufbau einer nationalen Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (NFDI) in Deutschland die Arbeitsweise und Merkmale des Rats für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD). Im Mittelpunkt stehen die zwei zentralen Merkmale des RatSWD als unabhängiges Beratungsgremium von Datenproduzenten und wissenschaftlichen Datennutzenden einerseits und als organisatorischer ...
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Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
238 (2018), 6, S. 571-590
| Mathias Bug, Stefan Liebig, Claudia Oellers, Regina T. Riphahn
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We advance the literature on political budget cycles by testing for cycles in expenditures for elections to the legislative and the executive branches. Using municipal data, we identify cycles independently for the two branches, evaluate the effects of overlaps, and account for general year effects. We find sizable effects on expenditures before legislative elections and even larger effects before ...
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Public Choice
177 82018), 1-2, S. 1-27
| Dirk Foremny, Ronny Freier, Marc-Daniel Moessinger, Mustafa Yeter
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We analyze whether start-up rates in different industries systematically change with business cycle variables. Using a unique data set at the industry level, we mostly find correlations that are consistent with counter-cyclical influences of the business cycle on entries in both innovative and non-innovative industries. Entries into the large-scale industries, including the innovative part of manufacturing, ...
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Journal of Business Venturing
33 (2018), 6, S. 742-761
| Alexander Konon, Michael Fritsch, Alexander S. Kritikos
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In this comment on Callen et al. (2014), I revisit recent evidence uncovering a "preference for certainty" in violation of dominant normative and descriptive theories of decision-making under risk. I show that the empirical findings are potentially confounded by systematic noise. I then develop choice lists that allow me to disentangle these different explanations. Experimental results obtained with ...
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The American Economic Review
108 (2018), 8, S. 2366-2382
| Ferdinand Vieider
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Here we conducted a large-scale genetic association analysis of educational attainment in a sample of approximately 1.1 million individuals and identify 1,271 independent genome-wide-significant SNPs. For the SNPs taken together, we found evidence of heterogeneous effects across environments. The SNPs implicate genes involved in brain-development processes and neuron-to-neuron communication. In a separate ...
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Nature Genetics
50 (2018), S. 1112-1121
| James J. Lee, Robbee Wedow, Martin Kroh ...
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We use a cointegrated structural vector autoregressive model to investigate the relation between monetary policy in the euro area and the stock market. Since there may be an instantaneous causal relation, we consider long-run identifying restrictions for the structural shocks and also used (conditional) heteroscedasticity in the residuals for identification purposes. Heteroscedasticity is modelled ...
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Econometrics
6 (2018), 3, 36 (14 S.)
| Helmut Lütkepohl, Aleksei Netšunajev
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The integration of emerging markets into the global economy is heavily promoted by foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows. Among the factors explaining the location of FDI, regional trade agreements (RTAs) can be relevant for emerging markets, as they can promote economic integration and increase the attractiveness of the region for foreign investors. This paper investigates the impact of South–South ...
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Review of Development Economics
22 (2018), 3, S. 1263-1277
| Mondher Cherif, Christian Dreger
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Since the seminal paper of Hoffman et al. (1994), an entitlement effect is believed to exist in the Ultimatum Game, in the sense that proposers who have earned their role (as opposed to having it randomly allocated) offer a smaller share of the pie to their matched responder. The entitlement effect is at the core of experimental Public Choice – not just because it concerns the topics of bargaining ...
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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
175 (2020), S. 341-352
| Johanna Mollerstrom
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Viele Bundesländer haben nach der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise spezielle Konsolidierungsprogramme für finanzschwache Kommunen aufgelegt. Mit dem Programmstart zeigten sich bei den teilnehmenden Kommunen deutliche Verbesserungen bei den Finanzkennzahlen. Allerdings ergeben sich als Reaktion auf die Programme auch einige adverse Effekte. Das betrifft insbesondere eine unterdurchschnittliche Entwicklung ...
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Wirtschaftsdienst
98 (2018), 8, S. 592-599
| Florian Boettcher, Ronny Freier, René Geißler, Friederike-Sophie Niemann
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Problem gambling is a serious socioeconomic problem involving high individual and social costs. In this article, we study risk preferences of problem gamblers including their risk attitudes in the gain and loss domains, their weighting of probabilities, and their degree of loss aversion. Our findings indicate that problem gamblers are systematically more risk taking and less sensitive toward changes ...
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Journal of Experimental Psychology : General
147 (2018), 8, S. 1241-1255
| Patrick Ring, Catharina C. Probst, Levent Neyse, Stephan Wolff, Christian Kaernbach, Thilo van Eimeren, Colin F. Camerer, Ulrich Schmidt
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The causes and consequences of the intergenerational persistence of inequality are a topic of great interest among various fields in economics. However, until now, issues of data availability have restricted a broader and cross-national perspective on the topic. Based on rich sets of harmonized household survey data, we contribute to filling this gap by computing time series for several indexes of ...
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Journal of Development Economics
134 (2018), S. 329-349
| Guido Neidhöfer, Joaquín Serrano, Leonardo Gasparini
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Die Industrie ist ein Eckpfeiler des wirtschaftlichen Erfolgs Deutschlands. Ihre Investitionstätigkeit ist im internationalen Vergleich zurzeit allerdings schwach. Befürchtet wird, dass die Kosten der Energiewende die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und damit die Attraktivität des Produktionsstandorts Deutschland einschränken. Die Antwort der Politik auf diesen vermeintlichen Zielkonflikt sind umfangreiche Ausnahmeregelungen, ...
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Wirtschaftsdienst
98 (2018), 8 S. 565–573
| Jürgen Blazejczak, Dietmar Edler, Martin Gornig, Claudia Kemfert
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Personality is a powerful predictor of central life outcomes, including subjective well-being. Yet, we still know little about how personality manifests in the very last years of life when well-being typically falls rapidly. Here, we investigate whether the Big Five personality traits buffer (or magnify) terminal decline in well-being beyond and in interaction with functioning in key physical and social ...
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
116 (2019), 4, S. 634-650
| Swantje Mueller, Jenny Wagner, Gert G. Wagner, Nilam Ram, Denis Gerstorf
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This article analyses how the presence of a dominant group of voters within the electorate affects voter turnout. Theoretically, we argue that its absolute size affects turnout via increased free-riding incentives and reduced social pressure to vote within a larger dominant group. Its relative size compared to other groups within the electorate influences turnout through instrumental and expressive ...
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Local Government Studies
45 (2019), 5, S. 724-747
| Peter Bönisch, Benny Geys, Claus Michelsen
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To describe adult age differences in intertemporal choice, we analyzed data from 1,491 participants who completed an incentivized monetary intertemporal discounting choice task involving different conditions (e.g., time delay of 12 months vs. 1 month). Respondents completed a number of other survey measures including behavioral measures of cognitive ability and self-reports concerning health, financial ...
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Psychology and Aging
33 (2018) 5, S. 782-788
| David Richter, Rui Mata
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Related to the increased encouragement of public transport (PT) by policy-makers, over-crowding in PT has become a major issue worldwide. Whilst the impact of in-vehicle crowding on individuals' travel costs has been considered, we focus on aggregate welfare losses. We apply a Pigouvian framework to the case of subways and compute the economic cost of congestion (ECC). We combine data of the 14 metro ...
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Economics of Transportation
14 (2018), S. 1-8
| Luke Haywood, Martin Koning, Remy Prud'homme
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This modeling comparison exercise looks at the global consequences of increased shale gas production in the U.S. and increased gas demand from Asia. We find that differences in models' theoretical construct and assumptions can lead to divergences in their predictions about the consequences of U.S. shale gas boom. In general, models find that U.S. High Shale Gas scenario leads to increased U.S. production, ...
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Energy Economics
60 (2016), S. 405-415
| Sonia Yeh, Yiyong Cai, Daniel Huppman, Paul Bernstein, Sugandha Tuladhar, Hillard G. Huntington
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The behavioral sciences, including most of psychology, seek to explain and predict behavior with the help of theories and models that involve concepts (e.g., attitudes) that are subsequently translated into measures. Currently, some subdisciplines such as social psychology focus almost exclusively on measures that demand reflection or even introspection when administered to persons. We argue that such ...
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PloS one
13 (2018), 2, e0192907
| Siegmar Otto, Ulf Kröhne, David Richter
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Children’s early years are a time when many families move home. Does residential mobility affect children’s wellbeing at age five in terms of cognitive and behavioural development? The question arises as moving home is sometimes portrayed as a stressful life event adversely affecting child development, particularly if frequent. Other studies suggest a more mixed role for home moves, which may reflect ...
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Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
7 (2018), 3, S. 265-287
| Ludovica Gambaro, Heather Joshi
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We investigate how often replication studies are published in empirical economics and what types of journal articles are replicated. We find that between 1974 and 2014 0.1% of publications in the top 50 economics journals were replication studies. We consider the results of published formal replication studies (whether they are negating or reinforcing) and their extent: Narrow replication studies are ...
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Research Policy
48 (2019), 1, S. 62-83
| Frank Mueller-Langer, Benedikt Fecher, Dietmar Harhoff, Gert G. Wagner