Search Results - Business Economics

The role of R&D-intensive clusters for regional competitiveness

Kosfeld, Reinhold; Mitze, Timo - 2020

Modern cluster theory provides reasons for positive external effects that accrue from the interaction of spatially proximate firms operating in common and related fields of economic activity. In this paper, we examine the impact of R&D-intensive clusters as a key factor of regional...

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Market design of regional flexibility markets: A classification metric for flexibility products and its application to German prototypical flexibility markets

Heilmann, Erik; Klempp, Nikolai; Wetzel, Heike - 2020

With a growing number of distributed energy resources, the electricity network is challenged with a higher quantity of technical problems such as capacity congestions and over- or under-voltages. One often-discussed approach to solve these problems, especially in the European zonal electricity...

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Protection and profit: Empirical evidence of governmental and market-based forest policies

Herzberg, Julika - 2019

In this paper, I study the effectiveness of privately managed FSC certified forests and public sustainability reserves distributed over the entire Brazilian Amazon from 2002-2015. The paper uses high-resolution data on forest cover derived from satellite images and organized in a grid of 1 km2...

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Estimating the monetary policy interest-rate-to-performance sensitivity of the European banking sector at the zero lower bound

Hayo, Bernd; Henseler, Kai; Rapp, Marc Steffen - 2019

Using an event-study design, we investigate monetary policy interest-rate-to-performance sensitivity of the European banking sector over the 07/2012-06/2017 period when interest rates were (close to) zero. We apply the Wordscores approach to introductory statements of ECB's Governing Council...

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Measuring redenomination risks in the Euro area: New evidence from survey data

Klose, Jens - 2019

This article introduces a new indicator to measure redenomination risks in Euro area countries. The measure is based on survey data. The influence of this indicator in determining sovereign bond yield spreads is tested using an ARDL-approach. The results for ten EMU countries in the period June...

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The role of global and domestic shocks for inflation dynamics: Evidence from Asia

Finck, David; Tillmann, Peter - 2019

This paper studies the determinants of business cycles in small open economies and adds to the discussion about the …

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Inter-municipal cooperation in administrative tasks - the role of population dynamics and elections

Bischoff, Ivo; Wolfschütz, Eva - 2019

We analyze the factors driving the emergence of inter-municipal cooperation (IMC) in tasks of internal administration in West-Germany between 2001 and 2014. In line with the Institutional Collective Action Approach, we find similarities in political ideology to foster cooperation. Cost pressure...

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Does tax competition drive cooperation in local economic development policies? Evidence on inter-local business parks in Germany

Bischoff, Ivo; Melch, Simon; Wolfschütz, Eva - 2019

specific instrument in this field, namely the development of joint business parks. We apply a hazard model to data from West …-German municipalities between 2000 and 2015. We find inter-local business parks to be more frequent among small municipalities and in … literature on international tax coordination supports the hypothesis that inter-local business parks are more likely in regions …

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Growing up in the Iran-Iraq war and preferences for strong defense

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Fereidouni, Hassan Gholipour - 2019

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of individuals' memories of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988) during early adulthood (18-25 years) on their preference for strong national defense forces and their willingness to fight for Iran (in the event of another war). Using the World Value...

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Voting on the threat of exclusion in a public goods experiment

Dannenberg, Astrid; Haita-Falah, Corina; Zitzelsberger, … - 2019

Ostracism is practiced by virtually all societies around the world as a means of enforcing cooperation and excluding members who show anti-social behaviors or attitudes. In this paper, we use a public goods experiment to study whether groups choose to implement an institution that allows for the...

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