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Harmonisation of old-age security within the European Union
Übelmesser, Silke - 2003
Not sufficiently harmonised national pension systems within the European Union distort the allocation of labour and endanger redistributive activities. This paper identifies the most decentralised level of harmonisation which guarantees efficient allocation and enables redistribution. For this,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404310
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Policy deviations, uncertainty, and the European Court of Justice
Hefeker, Carsten; Neugart, Michael - 2013
The implementation of European Union directives into national law is at the discretion of member states. We analyze incentives for member states to deviate from these directives when the European Commission may sue a defecting member state and rulings at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) are...
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What actually happens to EU directives in the member states? : A cross-country cross-sector view on national transposition instruments
Treutlein, Daniela (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003599283
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Promise not fulfilled : FinTech, data privacy, and the GDPR
Dorfleitner, Gregor; Hornuf, Lars; Kreppmeier, Julia - 2021
This article analyzes how the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has affected the privacy practices of FinTech firms. We study the content of 308 privacy statements respectively before and after the GDPR became binding. Using textual analysis methods, we find that the readability of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012649756
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For better or for worse? : state-level marital formation and risk sharing
Chami, Ralph; Hess, Gregory D. - 2002
Why do some U.S. states have higher levels of marital formation than others? This paper introduces an economic model wherin a state s representative individual may choose to marry in order to diversify his or her idiosyncratic income risk. The paper demonstrates that such a diversification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409730
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An equilibrium analysis of marriage, divorce and risk-sharing
Anderberg, Dan - 2001
This paper considers family formation and reciprocity-based cooperation in the form of sharing of earnings-risk. While risk sharing is one benefit to marriage it is also limited by divorce risk. With search in the marriage market there may be multiple equilibria diering not only in divorce rates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399734
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Gender and racial biases : evidence from child adoption
Baccara, Mariagiovanna; Collard-Wexler, Allan; Felli, … - 2010
This paper uses a new data set on domestic child adoption to document the preferences of potential adoptive parents over born and unborn babies relinquished for adoption by their birth mothers. We show that adoptive parents exhibit significant biases in favor of girls and against...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003935222
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The child adoption marketplace : parental preferences and adoption outcomes
Skidmore, Mark; Anderson, Gary R.; Eiswerth, Mark - 2011
In the United States child adoption costs vary considerably, ranging from no out-of-pocket expense to $50,000 or more. What are the underlying causes for the variability in child adoption expenses? While cost variability is widely acknowledged, the sources of the differentials have not been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009388358
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Is marriage as good as a contract?
Cigno, Alessandro - 2013
Neither marriage nor a legally enforceable contract serves any useful purpose if the parties have access to a perfect credit market. In the presence of credit rationing, efficiency and utility equalization are guaranteed only by a legally enforceable contract. Separate-property marriage may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010227229
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On the many ways Europeanization matters : the implementation of the water reform in Italy (1994-2006)
Asquer, Alberto - 2009
'horizontal' interaction between domestic actors and how these actors make use of stimuli originating from the EU. This paper aims … the period between 1994 and 2006. The analysis shows the role played by the use of monetary incentives provided by EU … funding sources, by changes in the institutional context partially originating from EU factors, and by the rulings of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922685