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6899: Educational Effects of Early or Later Secondary School Tracking in Germany

Andrea Mühlenweg

6898: Inventors? Response to Firm Acquisitions

Katrin Hussinger

6897: How to Limit Discrimination? Analyzing the Effects of Innovative Workplace Practices on Intra-Firm Gender Wage Gaps Using Linked Employer-Employee Data

Elke Wolf and Anja Heinze

6896: What Explains the Spread Between the Euro Overnight Rate and the ECB's Policy Rate?

Tobias Linzert and Sandra Schmidt

6895: Mitarbeiteranreizsysteme und Innovationserfolg

Dirk Czarnitzki and Kornelius Kraft

6894: Determinants of Child Care Participation

Katja Coneus, Kathrin Goeggel and Grit Muehler

6893: Spillovers of Innovation Activities and Their Profitability

Dirk Czarnitzki and Kornelius Kraft

6892: Life Scientist Mobility from Academe to Industry: Does Academic Entrepreneurship Induce a Costly ?Brain Drain? on the Not-for-Profit Research Sector?

Andrew A. Toole and Dirk Czarnitzki

6891: The Effects of Multinationals? Profit Shifting Activities on Real Investments

Michael Overesch

6890: The Phillips Curve and NAIRU Revisited: New Estimates for Germany

Bernd Fitzenberger, Wolfgang Franz and Oliver Bode

6889: Exports and productivity: Comparable evidence for 14 countries

Joachim Wagner, Leonhard Pertl, Stefano Schiavo, Mirabelle Muuls, Mauro Pisu, Roberto Alvarez, Patricio Jaramillo, Ricardo López Rago, Johannes Van Biesebroeck, Loren Brandt, Yifan Zhang, Ana M. Fernandes, Alberto Isgut, Rasmus Jørgensen, Ulrich Kaiser, Flora Bellone, Liza Jabbour, Patrick Musso, Lionel Nesta, Helmut Fryges, Davide Castellani, Francesco Serti, Chiara Tomasi, Antonello Zanfei, Stefanie Haller, Frances Ruane, Joze P. Damijan, Crt Kostevc, Sašo Polanec, Jose C. Fariñas, Juan A. Mañez, Ana Martin, Maria Engracia Rochina Barrachina, Juan A. Sanchis Llopis, Martin Andersson, Sara Johansson, David Greenaway, Richard Kneller and Holger Görg

6888: Projecting the Medium-Term: Outcomes and Errors for GDP Growth

Marcus Kappler

6887: Price Discovery for Cross-Listed Securities from Emerging Eastern European Countries

Marco Wölfle

6886: Nachgelagerte Besteuerung privater Altersvorsorgeaufwendungen: Auswirkungen auf die Alterseinkommen ausgewählter Haushaltstypen

Peter Westerheide

6885: Get Training or Wait? Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed in West Germany

Robert Völter, Aderonke Osikominu and Bernd Fitzenberger

6814: Firm Acquisitions and Technology Strategy: Corporate versus Private Equity Investors

Katrin Hussinger and Christoph Grimpe

6813: Hydrogen in Passenger Transport: A Macroeconomic Analysis

Tim Mennel and Sabine Jokisch

6802: Climate Policy and Ancillary Benefits: A Survey and Integration into the Modelling of International Negotiations on Climate Change

Karen Pittel and Dirk Rübbelke

6801: Do Equity Preferences Matter in Climate Negotiations? An Experimental Investigation

Astrid Dannenberg, Bodo Sturm and Carsten Vogt

6800: Search Patterns and Absorptive Capacity: A Comparison of Low- and High-Technology Firms from Thirteen European Countries

Christoph Grimpe and Wolfgang Sofka

677: Genetic algorithms: a tool for optimization in econometrics - basic concept and an example for empirical applications

Thorsten Doherr and Dirk Czarnitzki

676: What's Spurious, What's Real? Measuring the Productivity Impacts of ICT at the Firm-Level

Thomas Hempell

675: Does Experience Matter? Innovations and the Productivity of ICT in German Services

Thomas Hempell

674: Flexibility Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Treaties

Bernhard Boockmann and Paul W. Thurner

673: Wage Penalties for Career Interruptions: An Empirical Analysis for West Germany

Miriam Beblo and Elke Wolf

672: The Measurement of Effective Tax Rates: Common Themes in Business Management and Economics

Lothar Lammersen

671: Investment Decisions and Tax Revenues Under an Allowance for Corporate Equity

Lothar Lammersen

670: Why Are Asset Returns Predictable?

Erik Lüders

667: Explaining the Level of Relative Investment Specialisation: A Spatial Econometric Analysis of EU Regions

Claudia Stirböck

6661: Review of the Literature on the Impact of Mergers on Innovation

Norbert Schulz

6659: International Cooperation on Innovation: Empirical Evidence for German and Portuguese Firms

Pedro de Faria and Tobias Schmidt

6657: Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives in Russia: An Overview

Waldemar Rotfuß

6655: The Accuracy and Efficiency of the Consensus Forecasts: A Further Application and Extension of the Pooled Approach

Philipp Ager, Marcus Kappler and Steffen Osterloh

6654: The Globalization of Tax Policy: What German Politicians Believe

Friedrich Heinemann and Eckhard Janeba

6653: Public Universities, Tuition and Competition: A Tiebout Model

Robert Schwager

6652: What Makes Foreign Knowledge Attractive to Domestic Innovation Managers?

Wolfgang Sofka

6651: Self-Productivity in Early Childhood

Friedhelm Pfeiffer and Katja Coneus

6650: On the Role of Entrepreneurial Experience for Start-up Financing: An Empirical Investigation for Germany

Georg Metzger

6649: Personal Experience: A Most Vicious and Limited Circle!? On the Role of Entrepreneurial Experience for Firm Survival

Georg Metzger

6357: Inflation Expectations of Experts and ECB Communication

Katrin Ullrich

6356: Self-Productivity in Early Childhood

Katja Coneus and Friedhelm Pfeiffer

6355: Non-technological and Technological Innovation: Strange Bedfellows?

Tobias Schmidt and Christian Rammer

6354: Duration and Intensity of Kindergarten Attendance and Secondary School Track Choice

Tim Landvoigt, Grit Muehler and Friedhelm Pfeiffer

6353: Older Workers and the Adoption of New Technologies

Jenny Meyer

6088: Inequity Aversion and Individual Behavior in Public Good Games: An Experimental Investigation

Bodo Sturm, Thomas Riechmann, Astrid Dannenberg and Carsten Vogt

6087: Earnings Prospects for People with Migration Background in Germany

Stephan Thomsen, Johannes Gernandt and Alisher Aldashev

6086: Rising Wage Inequality in Germany

Johannes Gernandt and Friedhelm Pfeiffer

6085: Application of a simple nonparametric conditional quantile function estimator in unemployment duration analysis

Ralf Wilke and Laura Wichert

5875: Bounds Analysis of Competing Risks: A Nonparametric Evaluation of the Effect of Unemployment Benefits on Imigration in Germany

Ralf Wilke, Simon Lo and Melanie Arntz

5874: The Returns to Continuous Training in Germany: New Evidence from Propensity Score Matching Estimators

Grit Muehler, Michael Beckmann and Bernd Schauenberg

5873: On the Role of Entrepreneurial Experience for Start-up Financing: An Empirical Investigation for Germany

Georg Metzger

5872: Personal experience: a most vicious and limited circle!? On the role of entrepreneurial experience for firm survival

Georg Metzger

5871: Internationalizing R&D Co-opetition: Dress for the Dance with the Devil

Anja Schmiele and Wolfgang Sofka

5870: Independence and Accountability of Monetary and Fiscal Policy Committees

Alexander Mihailov and Katrin Ullrich

5869: Harmonisierung der Konzernbesteuerung innerhalb und an den Außengrenzen der Europäischen Union

Christoph Spengel and Carsten Wendt

5868: Which Program for Whom? Evidence on the Comparative Effectiveness of Public Sponsored Training Programs in Germany

Martin Biewen, Bernd Fitzenberger, Aderonke Osikominu and Marie Waller

5867: On the Definition of Unemployment and its Implementation in Register Data: The Case of Germany

Thomas Kruppe, Eva Müller, Laura Wichert and Ralf Wilke

572: Continuous Training and Firm Productivity in Germany

Thomas Zwick

571: European schemes of social assistance: an empirical analysis of set-ups and distributive impacts

Margit Kraus and Katja Hölsch

570: Inwieweit eignen sich die International Accounting Standards für die steuerliche Gewinnermittlung?

Christoph Spengel

5699: Computers as Pedagogical Tools in Brazil: A Pseudo-panel Analysis

Maresa Sprietsma

5698: Implications of Network Convergence on Local Access Regulation in the U.S. and the EU

Margit Vanberg

5697: Developing Supra-European Emissions Trading Schemes: An Efficiency and International Trade Analysis

Victoria Alexeeva-Talebi and Niels Anger

5696: The Effect of Relative Age in the First Grade of Primary School on Long-Term Scholastic Results: International Comparative Evidence using PISA 2003

Maresa Sprietsma

5695: Local Governments in the Wake of Demographic Change: Efficiency and Economies of Scale in German Municipalities

Benny Geys, Friedrich Heinemann and Alexander Kalb

5694: Tax Harmonisation in Europe: The Determination of Corporate Taxable Income in the EU Member States

Andreas Oestreicher and Christoph Spengel

5693: Inequity Aversion and Individual Behavior in Public Good Games: An Experimental Investigation

Astrid Dannenberg, Thomas Riechmann, Bodo Sturm and Carsten Vogt

5692: Explaining Women's Success: Technological Change and the Skill Content of Women's Work

Sandra Black and Alexandra Spitz-Oener

5691: Exports and Productivity Growth: First Evidence from a Continuous Treatment Approach

Helmut Fryges and Joachim Wagner

5690: Earnings Prospects for People with Migration Background in Germany

Alisher Aldashev, Johannes Gernandt and Stephan Thomsen

569: Allokationseffekte der Besteuerung im Rahmen des Fremdvergleichsgrundsatzes und des Einheitsprinzips

André Schröer

5689: Lost in Transmission? Stock Market Impacts of the 2006 European Gas Crisis

Ulrich Oberndorfer and Dirk Ulbricht

5688: Is the Welfare State Self-destructive? A Study of Government Benefit Morale

Friedrich Heinemann

5687: Heterogeneity of Patenting Activity and Its Implications for Scientific Research

Dirk Czarnitzki, Wolfgang Glänzel and Katrin Hussinger

568: Optimal Cover Prices and the Effects of Website Provision on Advertising and Magazine Demand

Ulrich Kaiser

567: What Determines Relative Sectoral Investment Patterns in EU Regions?

Claudia Stirböck

566: Forecasting economic activity in Germany: how useful are sentiment indicators?

Michael Schröder and Felix P. Hüfner

5590: Pre-empting Technology Competition Through Firm Acquisitions

Christoph Grimpe and Katrin Hussinger

5589: Macroeconomic Impacts of the Clean Development Mechanism: The Role of Investment Barriers and Regulations

Niels Anger, Christoph Böhringer and Ulf Moslener

5588: On the Self-serving Use of Equity Principles in International Climate Negotiations

Andreas Lange, Andreas Löschel, Carsten Vogt and Andreas Ziegler

5587: Would you Marry me? The Effects of Marriage on German Couples? Allocation of Time

AbdelRahmen El Lahga and Nicolas Moreau

5586: Apprenticeship Training in Germany? Investment or Productivity Driven?

Thomas Zwick

557: The Prospects of Capital Markets in Central and Eastern Europe

Michael Schröder and Jens Köke

556: Zur Rolle von Beteiligungskapitalgebern in ihren Portfoliounternehmen: Eine ökonometrische Analyse

Dirk Engel

553: Backwardation and Normal Backwardation in Energy Futures Markets: With an Application to Metallgesellschaft's Short-Dated Rollover Hedging of Long-Term Contracts

Richard Deaves and Narat Charupat

5514: Verteilungseffekte der öffentlichen Finanzierung der Hochschulbildung in Deutschland: Eine Längsschnittbetrachtung auf der Basis des sozioökonomischen Panels

Sarah Borgloh, Frank Kupferschmidt and Berthold Wigger

5513: Research Cooperation and Research Expenditures with Endogenous Absorptive Capacity: Theory and Microeconometric Evidence for the German Service Sector

Ulrich Kaiser

5512: Measuring Knowledge Spillovers in Manufacturing and Services: An Empirical Assessment of Alternative Approaches

Ulrich Kaiser

5511: Regional Stabilization by Fiscal Equalization? Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence from Germany

Thiess Büttner

5510: Towards a Theory and Policy of Eco-Innovation - Neoclassical and (Co-)Evolutionary Perspectives

Klaus Rennings

551: The Rationale for Wage Rigidity: Survey Evidence from German and US Firms

Friedhelm Pfeiffer and Wolfgang Franz

5509: Dynamik von akademischen Spinoff-Gründungen in Österreich

Jürgen Egeln, Helmut Fryges, Sandra Gottschalk and Christian Rammer

5508: The Returns to Pencil Use Revisited

Alexandra Spitz-Oener

5507: What Does Europe Pay for Clean Energy? Review of Macroeconomic Simulation Studies

Astrid Dannenberg, Tim Mennel and Ulf Moslener

5506: Motives for Innovation Co-operation? Evidence from the Canadian Survey of Innovation

Tobias Schmidt

5505: Sinkende Bildungsrenditen durch Bildungsreformen? Evidenz aus Mikrozensus und SOEP

Kathrin Göggel

5504: Double Standards in Educational Standards: Are Disadvantaged Students Being Graded More Leniently?

Oliver Himmler and Robert Schwager

5503: Age-dependent Skill Formation and Returns to Education

Friedhelm Pfeiffer and Karsten Reuß

5502: Seniority and Job Stability: A Quantile Regression Approach Using Matched Employer-Employee Data

Bernhard Boockmann and Susanne Steffes

5501: The Influence of Strategic Patenting on Companies' Patent Portfolios

Knut Blind, Katrin Cremers and Elisabeth Mueller