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Regional industrial effects in Germany from a potential gas deficit

Lehmann, Robert; Schult, Christoph - 2023 - This version: October 12, 2023

We estimate potential regional industrial effects in case of a threatening gas deficit. For Germany, the reduction leads to a potential decrease in industrial value added by 1.6%. The heterogeneity across German states is remarkable, ranging from 2.2% for Rhineland-Palatinate to 0.7% for...

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Nineteenth century US black and white physical activity and nutritional trends among the working class

Carson, Scott Alan - 2012

Much has been written about 19th century African American and white statures and body mass index values. However, little is known about their physical activity and calories required to sustain height and weight. This paper considers two alternative measures for biological conditions that address...

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Measuring the immeasurable : the evolution of the size of informal economy in the agricultural sector in the EU-15 up to 2019

Schneider, Friedrich; Morkunas, Mangirdas; Quendler, Erika - 2021

This study is the first scientific attempt to calculate the size of the informal economy in agriculture. The Multiple indicators multiple causes model (MIMIC) was developed for the estimation of levels of informal economy in 15 "Old" European Union Member States' agricultural sectors for the...

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Nineteenth and early 20th century physical activity and calories by gender and race

Carson, Scott Alan - 2022

When traditional measures for income and wealth are scarce or unreliable, alternative values are effective in measuring nutritional conditions during economic development. This study uses net nutrition and calories to illustrate that during the 19th and early 20th centuries that men required...

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Female and male calories across the 19th and early 20th century distributions using quantile regression

Carson, Scott Alan - 2022

Alternative measures for material conditions are frequently used to evaluate economic welfare during development. The basal metabolic rate and calories are two alternative net nutrition measures that vary by demographics, nativity, residence, and socioeconomic status. During the 19th and early...

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Investment policy for time-inconsistent discounters

Harstad, Bård - 2013

the current principal prefers her future self to save more, she can increase current investments complementary to future … savings and decrease investments in the strategic substitutes, for example. To characterize the principalś choices they are … benefits from subsidizing investments in "green" capital (complementary to future savings) and tax investments in substitute …

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Estimating fluctuations in oil and gas investment

Dahl, Roy Endré; Osmundsen, Petter - 2014

Governments in extraction countries are anxious to estimate expected investment in development projects, since they represent an essential element of the macro economy. The overall level of activity is also crucial to oil companies, since the macro picture affects cost levels, the supplies...

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Exit dynamics of start-up firms : does profit matter?

Golombek, Rolf; Raknerud, Arvid - 2015

We estimate by means of indirect inference a structural economic model where firms’ exit and investment decisions are the solution to a discrete-continuous dynamic programming problem. In the model the exit probability depends on the current capital stock and a measure of short-run...

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Evaluating market consolidation in mobile communications

Genakos, Christos; Valletti, Tommaso M.; Verboven, Frank - 2017

We study the dual relationship between market structure and prices and between market structure and investment in mobile telecommunications. Using a uniquely constructed panel of mobile operators’ prices and accounting information across 33 OECD countries between 2002 and 2014, we document...

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Identity and economic incentives

Donkor, Kwabena; Götte, Lorenz; Müller, Maximilian W.; … - 2023

This paper examines how beliefs and preferences drive identity-conforming consumption or investments. We introduce a …

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