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The Covid-19 pandemic caused a global economic crisis, leading governments to provide substantial State aid to support firms. This paper examines the effectiveness of Covid-related financial support in Spain and Italy, focusing on its impact on firm recovery. Using a difference-in-differences (DiD) approach combined with propensity score weighting, it compares outcomes of similar firms receiving aid ...
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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
240 (2025), 107339, 30 S.
| Giulia Canzian, Elena Crivellaro, Tomaso Duso, Antonella Rita Ferrara, Alessandro Sasso, Stefano Verzillo
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6.5 million Ukrainian refugees have been displaced globally since 2022, with one million who registered for temporary protection in Germany under the EU Tempo¬rary Protection Directive. Unlike other refugee groups, they were granted immediate access to social security and health care. However, little is known about the differences in health determinants for individuals arriving under the EU Temporary ...
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PLoS Global Public Health
5 (2025), 11, e0004565, 19 S.
| Louise Biddle, Andrea Marchitto, Sabine Zinn
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The price of institutional long-term care is a key determinant of the demand for both formal and informal long-term care. In this paper, we examine how the regional unemployment rate as a proxy for macroeconomic conditions influences these prices. Our analysis draws on administrative data that provide detailed information on all nursing homes and ambulatory care services, as well as all recipients ...
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The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
32 (2025), 100600, 15 S.
| Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Mia Teschner
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The expansion of liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure in Europe significantly impedes the necessary socio-ecological transformation (SET) required to shift toward a decentralized, 100% renewable energy system (RES). By reinforcing a fossil-centric system paradigm, LNG infrastructure deepens Europe’s dependence on fossil fuels, thereby delaying climate goals and increasing greenhouse gas emissions. ...
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Cell Reports Sustainability
2 (2025), 8, 100464, 11 S.
| Claudia Kemfert, Fabian Präger, Franziska M. Hoffart, Christian von Hirschhausen
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In Germany, the structural shift away from industry has long been much slower than in other similarly developed countries. Now, it is increasingly being shaped by global megatrends such as digitisation, decarbonisation, demographic change and changing international economic relations. There are significant regional differences in the adaptation processes: urban areas benefit from inno¬vation density ...
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Wirtschaftsdienst
105 (2025), 8,
| Thilo Kroeger, Claudia Schaffranka, Monika Schnitzer
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Germany is at the onset of a profound structural change that will have a lasting impact on the dynamics of productivity and economic growth. Global megatrends such as changes in international trade, digitalisation, decarbonisation and demographic change will accelerate structural change and have far-reaching consequences for productivity growth, the international competitiveness of the German economy ...
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Intereconomics
60 (2025), 5, S. 290-296
| Thilo Kroeger, Claudia Schaffranka, Monika Schnitzer
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Die Projektgruppe Gemeinschaftsdiagnose prognostiziert für das Jahr 2025 einen leichten Zuwachs des Bruttoinlandsprodukts in Deutschland um 0,2 %. Im weiteren Prognosezeitraum stimuliert die expansive Finanzpolitik die Konjunktur. Die Institute prognostizieren für die kommenden beiden Jahre Expansionsraten von 1,3 % und 1,4 %. Strukturelle Problemewie abnehmende Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und der demografische ...
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Wirtschaftsdienst
105 (2025), 10, S. 745-752
| Geraldine Dany-Knedlik, Oliver Holtemöller, Stefan Kooths, Torsten Schmidt, Timo Wollmershäuser
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Die deutsche Volkswirtschaft befindet sich aktuell nicht nur in einer konjunkturellangespannten Lage, sondern steht zugleich vor einem tiefgreifenden Strukturwandel –getrieben durch technologische Innovationen, Dekarbonisierung, (De-)Globalisierung – sowiedem demografischen Wandel. Diese Entwicklungen haben weitreichende Auswirkungenauf den Arbeitsmarkt. Der Arbeitsmarkt ist geprägt von einer zunehmenden ...
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Wirtschaftsdienst
105 (2025), 10, S.695-706
| Thilo Kroeger, Benedikt Runschke, Lenard Simon
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This paper proposes a new way to clarify the relationship between the sovereign-bank nexus and an individual bank’s home bias by employing stress test data from Europe’s most important banks. We use the individual bank’s likelihood to fail in achieving a minimum capital ratio threshold as the dependent variable in a cross-sectional logistic regression approach and compute marginal effects. In further ...
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International Review of Financial Analysis
107 (2025), 104594, 23 S.
| Dominik Meyland, Dorothea Schäfer
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This paper estimates and analyzes the distribution and composition of pre-tax national income in Germany since reunification, combining personal income tax returns, household survey data, and national accounts. We find that pre-tax national income inequality has increased since the 1990s, though to a lesser extent than suggested by previous studies. Our results draw parallels in top income structure ...
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European Economic Review
181 (2026),105149, 19 S.
| Stefan Bach, Charlotte Bartels, Theresa Neef
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Background: The first Corona Monitoring Nationwide (RKI-SOEP) study (October 2020−February 2021) found a low pre-vaccine SARS-CoV-2 antibody seroprevalence (2.1%) in the German adult population (≥ 18 years). Aim: The objective of this second RKI-SOEP (RKISOEP- 2) study in November 2021−March 2022 was to estimate the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2-specific antispike and/or anti-nucleocapsid (anti-N) IgG antibodies ...
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Eurosurveillance
30 (2025), 1, 2400037, 13 S.
| Elisabetta Mercuri, Lorenz Schmid, Christina Poethko-Müller, Martin Schlaud, Cânâ Kußmaul, Ana Ordonez-Cruickshank, Sebastian Haller, Ute Rexroth, Osamah Hamouda, Lars Schaade, Lothar H Wieler, Antje Gößwald, Angelika Schaffrath Rosario, Markus M. Grabka, Sabine Zinn, Hans Walter Steinhauer (et al.)
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Previous studies report associations of cognitive reflection, the ability to avoid intuitive but potentially wrong decisions by switching to a contemplative mindset, with individual preferences, mostly relying on student samples and laboratory settings. We assess the association of cognitive reflection with preferences in the general population and real-world socioeconomic outcomes. Our preregistered ...
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Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics
3 (2025), 2, S. 303-343
| Frank M. Fossen, Levent Neyse, Carsten Schröder
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From standard portfolio-choice theory, it is well-understood that background risk, primarily due to wage risk, is one of the central determinants of individuals’ portfolio composition: higher background risk reduces risky investments. However, if background risk is negatively correlated with financial market risk, higher background risk implies a more risky investment. We quantify the influence of ...
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International Review of Financial Analysis
100 (2025), 103985, 13 S.
| Johannes König, Maximilian Longmuir
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Workers' remittances declined sharply as the COVID-19 pandemic spread in the first half of 2020, rebounding in the second half. This paper analyses the impact of containment and economic support measures on remittances sent to Latin America during 2019–2020 using a gravity model estimated with the Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood estimator (PPML). Results show that containment measures in receiving ...
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Journal of International Development
34 (2022), 4, S. 803-822
| Adriana Cardozo Silva, Luis R. Diaz Pavez, Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso, Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann
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This paper is the first to analyse the impact of free trade agreements (FTAs) and the harmonisation of rules of origin (RoO) on Middle East and North African (MENA) countries’ exports differentiating between final and intermediate goods for a global sample of trade partners. Data on exports from four MENA countries (Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia) to 61 destinations over the period 1995–2016 are ...
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The World Economy
45 (2022), 5, S. 1501-1527
| Adriana Cardozo, Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso, Paula L. Vogler
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We consider structural vector autoregressions that are identified through stochastic volatility under Bayesian estimation. Three contributions emerge from our exercise. First, we show that a non-centred parameterization of stochastic volatility yields a marginal prior for the conditional variances of structural shocks that is centred on homoskedasticity, with strong shrinkage and heavy tails—unlike ...
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Journal of Econometrics
(2025), 106107, im Ersch. [online first: 2025-10-09]
| Helmut Lütkepohl, Fei Shang, Luis Uzeda, Tomasz Woźniak
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The COVID-19 pandemic posed unprecedented challenges to gender equality, particularly affecting working parents due to disruptions in daycare and school operations. It also impacted labor market opportunities for both men and women. This study investigates shifts in gender role attitudes toward maternal employment in Germany during pandemic lockdowns and subsequent periods of eased restrictions, using ...
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Feminist Economics
30 (2024), 3, S. 217–254
| Mathias Huebener, Natalia Danzer, Astrid Pape, Pia Schober, C. Katharina Spiess, Gert G. Wagner
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This paper analyzes three key labor market trends – structural change, servitization, and skill-biased change – using German data from 1975 to 2017. Through a decomposition analysis, we discern their individual impacts on employment shifts, revealing their distinct roles in the German labor market’s evolution. Servitization and skill-biased change significantly influence employment growth alongside ...
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Labour Economics
97 (2025), 102778, 16 S.
| Dominik Boddin, Thilo Kroeger
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Health information about vaccinations is communicated via various sources of information and is crucial for vaccination decisions. Information sources such as interpersonal sources, traditional print and digital media as well as social media offer information about the risks and benefits of vaccination. During health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic was, some information sources provide hanging ...
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PloS one
20 (2025), 9, e0333268., 17 S.
| Susanne Jordan, Sarah Jane Böttger, Sabine Zinn
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An increasing number of social science surveys use split questionnaire designs to reduce questionnaire length, presenting only a subset of several questionnaire modules to each respondent while leaving out others. This approach results in large amounts of planned missing data that necessitates imputation. Research shows that imputation is most effective when each module covers various topics. Yet, ...
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International Journal of Social Research Methodology
(2025), im Ersch. [online first:2025-09-29]
| Julian B. Axenfeld, Christian Bruch, Christof Wolf