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Reducing vehicle cold start emissions through carbon pricing : evidence from Germany
Frondel, Manuel; Marggraf, Clemens; Sommer, Stephan; … - 2021
A large proportion of local pollutants originating from the road transport sector is generated during the so-called cold-start phase of driving, that is, the first few minutes of driving after a car has stood inactive for several hours. Drawing on data from the German Mobility Panel (MOP), this...
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Drive less, drive better, or both? : behavioral adjustments to fuel price changes in Germany
Alberini, Anna; Horvath, Marco; Vance, Colin - 2021
Wenn der Preis von Treibstoff steigt, sollte die Nachfrage sinken, doch wie genau geschieht das? Fahren Menschen …
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Is the German retail gas market competitive? a spatial-temporal analysis using quantile regression
Kihm, Alex; Ritter, Nolan; Vance, Colin - 2014
We explore whether non-competitive pricing prevails in Germany’s retail gasoline market by examining the influence of the crude oil price on the retail gasoline price, focusing specifically on how this influence varies according to the brand and to the degree of competition in the vicinity of...
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Performance-related funding of universities : does more competition lead to grade inflation?
Bauer, Thomas K.; Grave, Barbara S. - 2011
Im Vergleich zu Universitäten in anderen europäischen Ländern und in den USA werden deutsche Universitäten als … Deutschland Reformen zur Verbesserung dieser Situation durchgeführt. Ein wichtiger Teil dieser Reformen war die Einführung … indikatorenbasierter Finanzierungsmodelle. Diese Finanzierungsysteme sollten den Wettbewerb zwischen den Universitäten fördern, indem Teile …
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US-euro area monetary policy interdependence : new evidence from Taylor Rule based VECMs
Belke, Ansgar (contributor); Cui, Yuhua (contributor) - 2009
This paper analyses the monetary policy interdependence between the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Federal Reserve (Fed) for the period 1999-2006. Two models are specified: a partial Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) and a general VECM. In the partial VECM, we look for a long-run...
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Inflation forecasting with inflation sentiment indicators
Döhrn, Roland (contributor);  … - 2008
In this paper we argue that future inflation in an economy depends on the way people perceive current inflation, their inflation sentiment. We construct some simple measures of inflation sentiment which capture whether price acceleration is shared by many components of the CPI basket. In a...
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The costs of Babylon : linguistic distance in applied economics
Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Otten, Sebastian - 2012
Effekt einer ansteigenden linguistischen Distanz auf den Spracherwerb von Immigranten in Spanien, den USA und Deutschland …
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Nonlinear adjustment, purchasing power parity and the role of nominal exchange rates and prices
Beckmann, Joscha - 2011
close scrutiny. Using monthly data from 1973:01 to 2009:12 from the USA, UK, Germany, France and Japan, this paper as a …
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Sticky prices vs. sticky information : a cross-country study of inflation dynamics
Bredemeier, Christian; Goecke, Henry - 2011
betrachtet dazu die Inflationsdynamiken in sechs verschiedenen Ländern (USA, Großbritannien, Deutschland, Frankreich, Kanada und … beider Modelle dort, wo die Inflationsdynamik substantiell von der der USA abweicht. …
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How stable are monetary models of the dollar-euro exchange rate? : a time-varying coefficient approach
Beckmann, Joscha; Belke, Ansgar; Kühl, Michael - 2009
This paper examines the significance of different fundamental regimes by applying various monetary models of the exchange rate to one of the politically most important exchange rates, the exchange rate of the US dollar vis-à-vis the euro (the DM). We use monthly data from 1975:01 to 2007:12....
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