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Seasonality in Smoking Behaviour: Re-evaluating the Effects of the 2005 Public Smoking Ban in Italy

Bono, Emilia Del; Grünberger, Klaus; Vuri, Daniela - CESifo - 2014

This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on individual smoking behaviour. Current empirical evidence supports the existence of a negative effect of the Italian ban on smoking prevalence and consumption in the general population....

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Grade Retention and Unobserved Heterogeneity

Gary-Bobo, Robert J.; Gousse, Marion; Robin, Jean-Marc - CESifo - 2014

We study the treatment effect of grade retention, using a panel of French junior highschool students, taking unobserved heterogeneity and the endogeneity of grade repetitions into account. We specify a multi-stage model of human-capital accumulation with a finite number of types representing...

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Mitigating Liquidity Constraints: Public Export Credit Guarantees in Germany

Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Heiland, Inga; Yalcin, Erdal - CESifo - 2012

Reportedly, firms often find it impossible to finance large and long-term projects despite positive net present values. Should governments step in and can their assistance be effective? This paper studies the case of public export credit guarantees in Germany. Covering the default risk of...

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Endogenous Borders? The Effects of New Borders on Trade in Central Europe 1885-1933

Heinemeyer, Hans-Christian; Schulze, Max-Stephan; Wolf, … - CESifo - 2008

A large literature on “border effects” in the wake of McCallum (1995) documents the massive impact of borders on trade. However, all these studies suffer from an identification problem. “Border effects” are usually identified from cross-sectional variation alone. We do not know how trade...

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Program Evaluation and Random Program Starts

Fredriksson, Peter; Johansson, Per - CESifo - 2003

This paper discusses the evaluation problem using observational data when the timing of treatment is an outcome of a stochastic process. We show that, without additional assumptions, it is not possible to estimate the average treatment effect and treatment on the treated. It is, however,...

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The Effect of Firms' Partial Retirement Policies on the Labour Market Outcomes of their Employees

Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - CESifo - 2013

In this paper, we assess the impact of firms introducing part-time work schemes for gradual labour market exit of elderly workers on their employees’ labour market outcomes. The analysis is based on unique linked employer-employee data that combine high-quality survey and administrative data....

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The Politics of IMF Forecasts

Dreher, Axel; Marchesi, Silvia; Vreeland, James Raymond - CESifo - 2007

Using panel data for 157 countries over the period 1999-2005 we empirically investigate the politics involved in IMF … find inflation forecasts are systematically biased downwards for countries with greater IMF loans outstanding relative to … GDP, indicating that the IMF engages in “defensive forecasting.” Countries with a fixed exchange rate regime also receive …

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Does Membership on the UN Security Council Influence IMF Decisions? Evidence from Panel Data

Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Vreeland, James Raymond - CESifo - 2006

We investigate whether temporary members of the UN Security Council receive favorable treatment from the IMF, using … temporary UN Security Council membership and participation in IMF programs, even after accounting for economic and political … the number of conditions included in IMF programs. The size of the loan, however, is not affected by UNSC membership. …

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Politics and IMF Conditionality

Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Vreeland, James Raymond - CESifo - 2013

Bailouts sponsored by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are famous for their conditionality: in return for … finding a measure of political importance that is not plagued by endogeneity and obtaining data on IMF conditionality. We … available dataset on the level of conditionality attached to (a maximum of) 314 IMF arrangements with 101 countries over the …

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The Golden Hello and Political Transitions

Aidt, Toke S.; Albornoz, Facundo; Gassebner, Martin - CESifo - 2012

We analyze the influence of IMF and World Bank programs on political regime transitions. We develop an extended version …

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