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The tertiarisation, or perhaps more accurately, the deindustrialisation of the economy has left deep scars on cities. It is evident not only in the industrial wastelands and empty factory buildings, but also in the income and social structures of cities. Industrialisation, collective wage setting, and the welfare state led to a stark reduction in income differences over the course of the 20th century. ...
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Urban Studies
55 (2018), 4, S. 790-806
| Martin Gornig, Jan Goebel
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We study a constitutional change in the German State of Bavaria where citizens, not politicians, granted themselves more say in politics at the local level through a state initiative election in 1995. This institutional setting allows us to observe revealed preferences for direct democracy and to identify factors which explain these preferences. Empirical evidence suggests that support for direct democracy ...
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International Tax and Public Finance
23 (2016), 4, S. 716-740
| Felix Arnold, Ronny Freier, Magdalena Pallauf, David Stadelmann
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This paper investigates the impact of changes in environmental policy stringency on industry- and firm-level productivity growth in a panel of OECD countries. To test the strong version of the Porter Hypothesis (PH), we extend a neo-Schumpeterian productivity model to allow for effects of environmental policies. We use a new environmental policy stringency (EPS) index and let the effect of countries׳ ...
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Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
81 (2017), S. 209-226
| Silvia Albrizio, Tomasz Kozluk, Vera Zipperer
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This paper proposes a measurement framework that explicitly accounts for the role of natural capital in productivity measurement. It is applied to aggregate economy data from the OECD Productivity Database, with natural capital data from the World Bank. It is shown that the direction of the adjustment to productivity growth depends on the rate of change of natural capital extraction relative to the ...
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The Review of Income and Wealth
63 (2017), S.1, S. 7-21
| Nicola Brandt, Paul Schreyer, Vera Zipperer
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In an uncertain world, decisions by market participants are based on expectations. Therefore, sentiment indicators reflecting expectations have a proven track record at predicting economic variables. However, survey respondents largely perceive the world through media reports. Here, we want to make use of that. We employ a rich dataset provided by Media Tenor International, based on sentiment analysis ...
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Journal of Forecasting
36 (2017), 5, S. 483-496
| Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Dirk Ulbricht, Tobias Thomas
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In recent years, an increasing number of nationally representative surveys in the social sciences and economics have implemented the Big Five model of personality. While many personality inventories were originally developed in the context of self-administered questionnaires, they are often used by large surveys in face-to-face interview settings instead. Drawing on an experimental research design, ...
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Journal of Research in Personality
63 (2016), S. 133-136
| Luisa Hilgert, Martin Kroh, David Richter
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We estimate the deterrence effects of European Commission (EC) merger policy instruments over the 1990–2009 period. Our empirical results suggest phase-1 remedies uniquely generate robust deterrence as—unlike phase-1 withdrawals, phase-2 remedies, and preventions—phase-1 remedies lead to fewer merger notifications in subsequent years. Furthermore, the deterrence effects of phase-1 remedies work best ...
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Economic Inquiry
54 (2016), 4, S. 1884-1903
| Joseph A. Clougherty, Tomaso Duso, Miyu Lee, Jo Seldeslachts
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We analyze the effects of incentive regulation with revenue caps on the investment behaviors of 109 German electricity distribution companies. We hypothesize that with Germany's implementation of incentive regulation in 2009 firms increase their investments in the base year when the rate base is determined for the following regulatory period. We build a model that controls for both firm-specific heterogeneity ...
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Energy Economics
57 (2016), S. 192-203
| Astrid Cullmann, Maria Nieswand
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This study examines the importance of parental health in the development of child behavior during early childhood. Our analysis is based on child psychometric measures from a longitudinal German dataset, which tracks mothers and their newborns up to age six. We identify major changes in parental health (shocks) and control for a variety of initial characteristics of the child including prenatal conditions. ...
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Review of Economics of the Household
14 (2016), 3, S. 577-598
| Andrea M. Mühlenweg, Franz G. Westermaier, Brant Morefield
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This paper shows how spillovers from sovereign risk to banks׳ access to wholesale funding establish a bank-sovereign nexus. In a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium set-up, heterogeneous banks give rise to an interbank market where government bonds are used as collateral. Government borrowing under limited commitment is costly ex ante as bank funding conditions tighten when the quality of collateral ...
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European Economic Review
87 (2016), S. 34-61
| Philipp Engler, Christoph Große Steffen
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We examine the relationship between outcomes of securities fraud class action lawsuits (SFCAs) and corporate board turnover rates. Our results indicate that turnover rates for board members are higher when a firm settles a lawsuit than when a suit is dismissed. Outside director turnover is most sensitive to SFCA outcomes, perhaps reflecting reputational effects. Results demonstrate that involvement ...
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International Review of Law and Economics
48 (2016), S.14-25
| Christopher F. Baum, James G. Bohn, Atreya Chakraborty
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Situated at the intersection of the literatures on speculative storage and non-renewable commodity scarcity, this paper considers whether changes in persistence have occurred in long-run U.S. prices of the energy commodities crude oil, natural gas and bituminous coal. We allow for a structural break when testing for a break in persistence to avoid a change in the stochastic properties of prices being ...
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Energy Economics
59 (2016), S. 96-103
| Aleksandar Zaklan, Jan Abrell, Anne Neumann
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We examine how late-life personality development relates to overall morbidity as well as specific performance-based indicators of physical and cognitive functioning in 1,232 older adults in the Berlin Aging Study II (aged 65-88 years). Latent growth models indicated that, on average, neuroticism and conscientiousness decline over time, whereas extraversion and openness increase and agreeableness remains ...
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Journal of Research in Personality
65 (2016), S. 94-108
| Swantje Müller, Jenny Wagner, Johanna Drewelies, Sandra Düzel, Peter Eibich, Jule Specht, Ilja Demuth, Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen, Gert G. Wagner, Denis Gerstorf
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Multiplicative growth processes that are subject to random shocks often have an asymmetric distribution of outcomes. In a series of incentivized laboratory experiments, we show that a large majority of participants either strongly underestimatethe asymmetry or ignore it completely. Participants misperceive the spread of the outcome distribution to be too narrowband, and they estimate the median and ...
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Management Science
64 (2018), 4, S. 1693-1706
| Ludwig Ensthaler, Olga Nottmeyer, Georg Weizsäcker, Christian Zankiewicz
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This article studies the interaction of information disclosure and reputational concerns in certification markets. We argue that by revealing information less precisely, a certifier reduces the threat of capture because this reduces her gains from selling fraudulent certificates. As a result, only imprecise disclosure rules are implementable for intermediate discount factors. Our results therefore ...
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European Economic Review
89 (2016), S. 345-360
| Martin Pollrich, Lilo Wagner
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Concerns about global warming and growing scarcity of fossil fuels require substantial changes in energy consumption patterns and energy systems, as targeted by many countries around the world. One key element to achieve such transformation is to increase energy efficiency of the housing stock. In this context, it is frequently argued that private investments are too low in the light of the potential ...
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Urban Studies
54 (2017), 14, S. 3218-3238
| Claus Michelsen, Andreas Mense, Konstantin Kholodilin
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The Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) provides information about house-hold wealth (real and financial assets as well as liabilities) from 15 Euro-countries around the year 2010 (first wave). The survey will be the central dataset in this topic in the future. However, several aspects point to potential methodological constraints regarding cross-country comparability. Therefore the aim ...
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Survey Research Methods
10 (2016), 2, S. 119-142
| Anita Tiefensee, Markus M. Grabka
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Developed and well regulated financial markets are usually seen as a precondition for an efficient allocation of resources and can foster long term economic growth. This paper explores the institutional determinants for financial development in the countries of the Middle East and North African (MENA) region. Institutional conditions are from the International Country Risk Guide. Panel-econometric ...
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Review of Development Economics
20 (2016), 3, S. 670-680
| Mondher Cherif, Christian Dreger
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We explore the impact of large banks and of financial openness for aggregate growth. Large banks matter because of granular effects: if markets are very concentrated in terms of the size distribution of banks, idiosyncratic shocks at the bank-level do not cancel out in the aggregate but can affect macroeconomic outcomes. Financial openness may affect GDP growth in and of itself, and it may also influence ...
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Journal of Banking & Finance
77 (2017), S. 300-316
| Franziska Bremus, Claudia M. Buch
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Despite the benefits of smoke-free legislation on adult health, little is known about its impact on children's health. We examined the effects of tobacco control policies on the rate of emergency department (ED) visits for childhood asthma (N = 128,807), ear infections (N = 288,697), and respiratory infections (N = 410,686) using outpatient ED visit data in Massachusetts (2001 − 2010), New Hampshire ...
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Preventive Medicine
89 (2016), S. 278–285
| Summer Sherburne Hawkins, Sylvia Hristakeva, Mark Gottlieb, Christopher F. Baum