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Empirical studies on public debt and fiscal transfers

Reischmann, Markus Josef - 2016

This volume includes five self-contained chapters in the fields of public debt and fiscal transfer schemes. After an introduction to the topic, chapter 2 shows that the institutional setting of fiscal policy making needs to be considered when assessing the sustainability of fiscal policy. Using...

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Essays on international trade and development

Heid, Benedikt - 2014

gravity models for developed countries to include unemployment (chapter 2) and for Latin American and Caribbean developing … migration and trade and their effects on unemployment (chapter 5), and the dynamics of democracy and income chapter 6). …

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The rents of banking : a public choice approach to bank regulation

Buck, Florian Christopher - 2015

The rise of a crisis-prone banking sector and its political power has received significant attention following the most recent financial crisis. The crisis sparked a growing interest in understanding how and why we have created a world of large, unstable banks. Excessive banking activity arose...

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Essays on the behavior of firms and politicians

Riem, Marina - 2017

This dissertation consists of six self-contained chapters that are related to the behavior of firms and politicians in a broader sense. After an introduction to the topic, the first part of the dissertation elaborates on how institutional and political framework conditions influence the behavior...

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Gravity model applications and macroeconomic perspectives

Gröschl, Jasmin Katrin - 2013

This dissertation was prepared by Jasmin Gröschl and is a collection of five self-contained empirical essays. They aim at contributing to the understanding of non-standard determinants of trade and migration: historical and cultural characteristics in the United States (Chapter 1),...

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Effectiveness of climate policies : empirical methods and evidence

Dieler, Julian - 2016

This volume was prepared by Julian Dieler while he was working with the Center for Energy, Climate and exhaustible Resources at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. At the latest since the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 climate policies are permanently on the international policy...

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Studies on issues in political economy since the Global Financial Crisis

Jäger, Kai - 2016

The dissertation includes four studies broadly connected to the causes and consequences of the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-8 from a political economy perspective. Following the intro-duction, Chapter 2 analyzes the political roots of massive foreign reserves accumulation, which has...

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Wealth and politics : studies on inter vivos transfers and partisan effects

Schinke, Christoph - 2016

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Lohnrisiko und Altersarmut im Sozialstaat

Nagl, Wolfgang - 2014

unemployment risks on individual wages are analyzed in chapter 2. Building on a portfolio model for the labor market, the effects … unemployment risk is negative. Chapter 3 focuses on the effects of the reduction of unemployment benefits in the course of the … German Hartz reforms. For men and women in East and West Germany we find that the reform-induced decrease in unemployment …

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