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Privatisation of network industries in Germany : a disaggregated approach

Knieps, Günter - 2004

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of market-oriented institutional reforms in German network industries. A disaggregated approach is chosen, which differentiates between network services, infrastructure management and network infrastructure. The gradual opening of network...

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Bunching on the Autobahn? : speeding responses to a "notched" penalty scheme

Traxler, Christian; Westermaier, Franz; Wohlschlegel, Ansgar - 2017

discontinuously increasing in speed. We present survey evidence suggesting that drivers in Germany are well aware of the notched …

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Outside employment and parliamentary priorities

Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas; Wochner, Timo - 2025

Many democracies allow their legislators to engage in private employment, but the consequences for parliamentary priorities are still poorly understood. We collect large-scale longitudinal data on outside employment and biographic characteristics for all members of the 18th German Bundestag, and...

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Work norms and the welfare state

Corneo, Giacomo - 2011

Many European countries still provide their citizens with social insurance programs of unprecedented generosity. A cultural critique of the welfare state contends that generous social insurance has detrimental effects on work norms. This paper revisits the model of endogenous work ethic...

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Is Prescott right? : welfare state policies and the incentives to work, learn and retire

Jacobs, Bas (contributor) - 2008

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Returns to citizenship? : Evidence from Germany's recent immigration reforms

Gathmann, Christina; Keller, Nicolas - 2014

reforms in Germany, a country with a weak record of immigrant assimilation. For identification, we exploit discontinuities in …

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Privatization in Italy 1993-2002 : goals, institutions, outcomes, and outstanding issues

Goldstein, Andrea - 2003

This paper describes the privatization program in Italy during the 1990s and puts that policy in the context of … macroeconomic adjustment, general market deregulation, and promotion of private investment in the provision of public infrastructure … attempts at privatization of the 1980s, delaying until 1992 the start of largescale privatizations. These were imposed on …

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Why Germany's "gas price brake" encourages moral hazard and raises gas prices

Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Wey, Christian - 2022

To help German households and firms with exploding energy costs, the German government is about to implement a new transfer scheme called "gas price brake." A unique feature of this energy price relief measure is that both households and the industry receive a transfer that increases in one's...

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A fair price for energy? : ownership versus market opening in the EU15

Fiorio, Carlo V.; Florio, Massimo - 2010

In the past two decades privatisation and liberalisation of network industries providing services of general economic interest (SGEI), have been particularly significant in the European Union. Wide variations around a common policy trend can, however, be observed across countries and sectors. We...

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Privatisation policy in Spain : stuck between liberalisation and the protection of nationals interests

Arocena, Pablo - 2004

This paper carries out an overview of the recent history of privatisation in Spain. At this point, the paper focuses on the analysis of the economic, financial and political objectives pursued by successive Spanish Administrations. It is argued that privatisation policy has been inconsistent...

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