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7435: Is Temporary Employment a Stepping Stone for Unemployed School Leavers?

Elsy Verhofstadt and Christian Goebel

7434: Innovation Success of Non-R&D-Performers: Substituting Technology by Management in SMEs

Alfred Spielkamp, Dirk Czarnitzki and Christian Rammer

7433: Clean and Productive? Evidence from the German Manufacturing Industry

Ulrich Oberndorfer, Ulf Moslener, Christoph Böhringer and Andreas Ziegler

7432: Language Usage, Participation, Employment and Earnings: Evidence for Foreigners in West Germany with Multiple Sources of Selection

Stephan Thomsen, Johannes Gernandt and Alisher Aldashev

7431: The Immigrant Wage Gap in Germany

Stephan Thomsen, Johannes Gernandt and Alisher Aldashev

7430: Impact of Service Station Networks on Purchase Decisions of Alternative-fuel Vehicles

Martin Achtnicht, Georg Bühler and Claudia Hermeling

7429: Inkrementelle versus radikale Innovationen am Beispiel der Kraftwerkstechnik

Klaus Rennings, Peter Markewitz and Stefan Vögele

7428: Does EU Cohesion Policy Promote Growth? Evidence from Regional Data and Alternative Econometric Approaches

Philipp Mohl and Tobias Hagen

7427: Exports and Profitability: First Evidence for German Manufacturing Firms

Helmut Fryges and Joachim Wagner

7426: The Effects of Experience on Selecting Innovation Projects: Better the Devil You Know

Tobias Schmidt, Franz Schwiebacher and Wolfgang Sofka

7425: Wissensvermittlung versus Legitimationsfunktion: Warum engagieren Unternehmen IT-Berater?

Irene Bertschek

7424: International Scientist Mobility and the Locus of Technology Transfer

Jakob Edler, Heide Fier and Christoph Grimpe

7423: Auctioning of CO2 Emission Allowances in Phase 3 of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme

Eva Benz, Andreas Löschel and Bodo Sturm

7422: Formal and Informal Technology Transfer from Academia to Industry: Complementarity Effects and Innovation Performance

Christoph Grimpe and Katrin Hussinger

7421: The Effect of Entry on R&D Investment of Leaders: Theory and Empirical Evidence

Dirk Czarnitzki, Federico Etro and Kornelius Kraft

7420: Institutional Childcare: An Overview on the German Market

Grit Muehler

7419: The Determinants of Merger Waves: An International Perspective

Klaus Gugler, Dennis C. Mueller and Michael Weichselbaumer

7418: Managing Search Strategies for Open Innovation: The Role of Environmental Munificence as well as Internal and External R&D

Wolfgang Sofka and Christoph Grimpe

7417: Labor Pooling in R&D Intensive Industries

Heiko A. Gerlach, Thomas Rønde and Konrad O. Stahl

7416: The Intergenerational Transmission of Health in Early Childhood

Katja Coneus and Katharina Spiess

7415: A Test of the Quality of Concentration Indices

Diana Heger and Kornelius Kraft

7414: Barriers to Entry and Profitability

Diana Heger and Kornelius Kraft

7393: Grade Inflation, Social Background, and Labour Market Matching

Robert Schwager

7392: Commercializing Academic Research: The Quality of Faculty Patenting

Cédric Schneider, Katrin Hussinger and Dirk Czarnitzki

7391: Sensitivity Analysis in Economic Simulations: A Systematic Approach

Claudia Hermeling and Tim Mennel

7390: Self-Productivity and Complementarities in Human Development: Evidence from MARS

Manfred Laucht, Katja Coneus, Dorothea Blomeyer and Friedhelm Pfeiffer

7389: CO2 Emission Reduction in Freight Transports How to Stimulate Environmental Friendly Behaviour?

Georg Bühler and Patrick Jochem

7388: A Critical Note on the Forecast Error Variance Decomposition

Atılım Seymen

7387: Knowledge Production in Nanomaterials: An Application of Spatial Filtering to Regional Systems of Innovation

Roberto Patuelli and Christoph Grimpe

7386: Individual Determinants of Social Fairness Assessments: The Case of Germany

Tanja Hennighausen, Friedrich Heinemann and Ivo Bischoff

7385: Explaining the Employability Gap of Short-term and Long-term Unemployed Persons

Stephan Thomsen

7384: Climate Policy and the Problem of Competitiveness: Border Tax Adjustments or Integrated Emission Trading?

Andreas Löschel, Victoria Alexeeva-Talebi and Tim Mennel

7383: The Economic Impact of Olympic Games: Evidence from Stock Markets

Christian Dick and Qingwei Wang

7382: EU Emission Allowances and the Stock Market: Evidence from the Electricity Industry

Ulrich Oberndorfer

7381: A Lead Market Approach Towards the Emergence and Diffusion of Coal-fired Power Plant Technology

Klaus Rennings and Wilko Smidt

7380: Unemployment Persistence: Is There Evidence for Stigma Effects?

Martin Biewen and Susanne Steffes

7379: Wirkung und Effizienz von Strafrecht: "Was geht?" - bei jungen Gewalttätern?

Horst Entorf

7378: Wie kann die durchschnittliche Ausbildungsquote in Deutschland korrekt gemessen werden?

Peter Jacobebbinghaus, Jens Mohrenweiser and Thomas Zwick

7377: Linking CGE and Microsimulation Models: A Comparison of Different Approaches

Giulia Colombo

7376: The Impact of Trust on Reforms

Friedrich Heinemann and Benjamin Tanz

7375: Innovation on Demand: Can Public Procurement Drive Market Success of Innovations

Birgit Aschhoff and Wolfgang Sofka

7361: The Impact of Intergovernmental Grants on Cost Efficiency: Theory and Evidence from German Municipalities

Alexander Kalb

7360: Technological Uncertainty and Cost-effectiveness of CO2 Emission Trading Schemes

Vincent M. Otto and Andreas Löschel

7359: Employment Impacts of EU Biofuels Policy: Combining Bottom-up Technology Information and Sectoral Market Simulations in an Input-output Framework

Ignazio Mongelli, Andreas Löschel, Frederik Neuwahl and Luis Delgado

7358: International Stock Return Predictability Under Model Uncertainty

Andreas Schrimpf

7357: R&D Investment and Financing Constraints of Small and Medium-Sized Firm

Dirk Czarnitzki and Hanna L. Binz

7356: The Knowledge Production of 'R' and 'D'

Susanne Thorwarth, Kornelius Kraft and Dirk Czarnitzki

7355: The Adoption of New Technologies and the Age Structure of the Workforce

Jenny Meyer

7354: Noncognitive Skills, Internet Use and Educational Dropout

Katja Coneus, Johannes Gernandt and Marianne Saam

7353: Heterogeneous Labour Markets in a Microsimulation-AGE Model: Application to Welfare Reform in Germany

Stefan Boeters and Michael Feil

7352: Building and Blocking: The Two Faces of Technology Acquisition

Christoph Grimpe and Katrin Hussinger

7351: Earnings Losses After Non-employment Increase With Age

Thomas Zwick

7346: Asymmetric Price Transmission in Supply Function Equilibrium, Carbon Prices and the German Electricity Spot Market

Nikolas Wölfing

7313: Nach der Reform ist vor der Reform? Eine arbeitsökonomische Analyse ausgewählter Aspekte der Hartz-Reformen

Bernd Fitzenberger

7311: The Employment Consequences of Seniority Wages

Thomas Zwick

7310: Déjà Vu? Short-Term Training in Germany 1980-1992 and 2000-2003

Aderonke Osikominu, Olga Orlyanskaya, Bernd Fitzenberger and Marie Waller

7309: Market and Technology Access Through Firm Acquisitions: Beyond One Size Fits All

Katrin Hussinger and Christoph Grimpe

7308: Aufsichtsratsverflechtungen und ihr Einfluss auf die Vorstandsbezüge von DAX-Unternehmen

Jochen Möbert, Florian Gattung, Horst Entorf and Immanuel Pahlke

7307: Drivers and Effects of Internationalising Innovation by SMEs

Anja Schmiele and Christian Rammer

7306: University Spin-Off's Transfer Speed: Analyzing the Time from Leaving University to Venture

Kathrin Müller

7305: Successful Patterns of Scientific Knowledge Sourcing: Mix and Match

Wolfgang Sofka and Birgit Aschhoff

7304: Die Auswirkungen des demografischen Wandels auf das Gründungsgeschehen in Deutschland

Sebastian Theuer and Sandra Gottschalk

7303: Conditional Grants, Grant-Seeking and Welfare when there is Government Failure on the Subordinate Level

Ivo Bischoff

7302: Formal and Strategic Appropriability Strategies of Multinational Firms: A Cross Country Comparison

Pedro de Faria and Wolfgang Sofka

7301: Does Mandatory Labeling of Genetically Modified Food Grant Consumers the Right to Know? Evidence from an Economic Experiment

Astrid Dannenberg, Sara Scatasta and Bodo Sturm

7300: Rate Cutting Tax Reforms and Corporate Tax Competition in Europe

Friedrich Heinemann, Michael Overesch and Johannes Rincke

7299: Who's afraid of an EU tax and why? Revenue system preferences in the European Parliament

Philipp Mohl, Friedrich Heinemann and Steffen Osterloh

7298: A European Perspective on Recent Trends in U.S. Climate Policy

Ulf Moslener and Bodo Sturm

7297: Monetary Policy Implementation and the Federal Funds Rate

Dieter Nautz and Sandra Schmidt

7296: Voter Involvement, Fiscal Autonomy and Public Sector Efficiency: Evidence from German Municipalities

Benny Geys, Friedrich Heinemann and Alexander Kalb

7295: Public Interest vs. Interest Groups: Allowance Allocation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme

Niels Anger, Christoph Böhringer and Ulrich Oberndorfer

7294: Wage Convergence and Inequality after Unification: (East) Germany in Transition

Johannes Gernandt and Friedhelm Pfeiffer

7255: Union Density and Varieties of Coverage: The Anatomy of Union Wage Effects in Germany

Alexander Lembcke, Karsten Kohn and Bernd Fitzenberger

7230: IT Training and Employability of Older Workers

Katrin Schleife

7229: The Impact of Personal and Corporate Taxation on Capital Structure Choices

Dennis Voeller and Michael Overesch

7228: Why Do Firms Train Apprentices? The Net Cost Puzzle Reconsidered

Jens Mohrenweiser and Thomas Zwick

7227: Who Gets the Money? The Dynamics of R&D Project Subsidies in Germany

Birgit Aschhoff

7226: Returns and Volatility of Eurozone Energy Stocks

Ulrich Oberndorfer

7225: Reducing Deforestation and Trading Emissions: Economic Implications for the post-Kyoto Carbon Market

Jayant A. Sathaye and Niels Anger

7224: The Determinants of Capital Structure: Some Evidence from Banks

Florian Heider and Reint Gropp

7223: Assessing Intergenerational Earnings Persistence Among German Workers

Friedhelm Pfeiffer and Philipp Eisenhauer

7194: Regional Versus Individual Aspects of the Digital Divide in Germany

Katrin Schleife

7193: The Effect of Firm- and Industry-Level Contracts on Wages: Evidence from Longitudinal Linked Employer-Employee Data

Nicole Gürtzgen

7191: Patent Protection, Market Uncertainty, and R&D Investment

Andrew A. Toole and Dirk Czarnitzki

7190: Detecting Behavioural Additionality: An Empirical Study on the Impact of Public R&D Funding on Firms' Cooperative Behaviour in Germany

Andreas Fier, Birgit Aschhoff and Heide Löhlein

7189: Asset Pricing with a Reference Level of Consumption: New Evidence from the Cross-Section of Stock Returns

Andreas Schrimpf and Joachim Grammig

7188: Beschäftigung und Arbeitslosigkeit älterer Arbeitnehmer: Eine mikroökonometrische Evaluation der Arbeitslosengeldreform von 1997

Philipp Zahn, Ralf Wilke and Eva Müller

7187: Rising Wage Inequality in Germany

Friedhelm Pfeiffer and Johannes Gernandt

7186: The Importance of Equity Finance for R&D Activity: Are There Differences Between Young and OldCompanies?

Volker Zimmermann and Elisabeth Mueller

7185: Rent-Sharing and Collective Bargaining Coverage: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Nicole Gürtzgen

7184: How Does Owners' Exposure to Idiosyncratic Risk Influence the Capital Structure of Private Companies?

Elisabeth Müller

7183: Employment Effects of Different Innovation Activities: Microeconometric Evidence

Bettina Peters

7182: Computer Use and the Employment Status of Older Workers: An analysis Based on Individual Data

Katrin Schleife

7181: A Note on Implementing Box-Cox Quantile Regression

Ralf Wilke, Bernd Fitzenberger and Xuan Zhang

7180: Censored Quantile Regressions and the Length of Unemployment Periods in West Germany

Zhang Xuan, Ralf Wilke and Elke Lüdemann

7179: Semiparametric Estimation of Consumption Based Equivalence Scales: The Case of Germany

Ralf Wilke

7178: The Relationship between R&D Collaboration, Subsidies and Patenting Activity: Empirical Evidence from Finland and Germany

Andreas Fier, Bernd Ebersberger and Dirk Czarnitzki

7177: Returns to Private Equity: Idiosyncratic Risk Does Matter!

Elisabeth Müller

7176: Modeling Asset Returns: A Comparison of Theoretical and Empirical Models

Michael Schröder and Erik Lüders

7134: Price Indexes for PC Database Software and the Value of Code Compatibility

Dietmar Harhoff and Dietmar Moch

7133: A Regulatory Framework for a Policy of Sustainability: Lessons from the Neo-Liberal School

Klaus Rennings, Henrike Koschel, Karl Ludwig Brockmann and Isabel Kühn

7132: Linking Weak and Strong Sustainability Indicators: The Case of Global Warming

Klaus Rennings and Olav Hohmeyer

7131: Estimation of Household Demand Systems Using Unit Value Data

Ian Preston, Francois Laisney and Ian Crawford

7130: Employment and Wage Effects of Social Security Financing: An Empirical Analysis of the West German Experience and some Policy Simulations

Viktor Steiner

7122: The R&D Investment-Uncertainty Relationship: Do Competition and Firm Size Matter?

Andrew A. Toole and Dirk Czarnitzki

7120: Nach der Reform ist vor der Reform? Eine arbeitsökonomische Analyse ausgewählter Aspekte der Hartz-Reformen

Bernd Fitzenberger

7119: Intra- und intergenerationale Umverteilungseffekte in der bundesdeutschen Alterssicherung auf Basis humankapital - theoretischer Überlegungen

Friedhelm Pfeiffer and Karsten Reuß

7098: Ungleichheit und die differentiellen Erträge frühkindlicher Bildungsinvestitionen im Lebenszyklus

Friedhelm Pfeiffer and Karsten Reuß

7097: Reformen im Niedriglohnsektor: Eine integrierte CGE-Mikrosimulationsstudie der Arbeitsangebots- und Beschäftigungseffekte

Wolfgang Franz, Nicole Guertzgen, Stefanie Schubert and Markus Clauss

7020: Transparency of Regulation and Cross-Border Bank Mergers

Matthias Köhler

7019: Are Local Milieus the Key to Innovation Performance?

Dirk Czarnitzki and Hanna L. Binz

7018: A Comparative Study on the Role of Stochastic Trends in U.S. Macroeconomic Fluctuations, 1954-1988

Atılım Seymen

7017: Distributional and Behavioural Effects of the German Labour Market Reform

Markus Clauss and Reinhold Schnabel

7016: Financial Constraints: Routine Versus Cutting Edge R&D Investment

Hanna L. Binz and Dirk Czarnitzki

7015: Energieeffizienz: Eine neue Aufgabe für staatliche Regulierung?

Bodo Sturm and Tim Mennel

7014: Hybridkapital. Eine Marktübersicht

Jakub Kaczmarczyk and Wojtek Piaskowski

7013: Gains and Pains from Contract Research: A Transaction and Firm-level Perspective

Ulrich Kaiser and Christoph Grimpe

7011: Does IT Outsourcing Increase Firm Success? An Empirical Assessment using Firm-Level Data

Jörg Ohnemus

7010: Durable Goods, Innovation and Network Externalities

Daniel Cerquera Dussán

7008: Job and Worker Reallocation in German Establishments: The Role of Employers? Wage Policies and Labour Market Institutions

Nicole Guertzgen

7007: Entry Deterrence in Postal Service Markets

Patrick Frank Ernst Beschorner

7006: Merger Control as Barrier to EU Banking Market Integration

Matthias Koehler

7005: The Impact of Fiscal Equalization on Local Expenditure Policies: Theory and Evidence from Germany

Sebastian Hauptmeier

7004: Latin versus European Power: A Tale of Two Market Reforms

Tim Mennel and María Viecens