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Public Universities, Tuition and Competition: A Tiebout Model

Schwager, Robert - 2007

A simple Tiebout model is presented where states provide university education to both immobile and mobile students. State governments choose the quality of public universities by trading off the value of education for the local immobile student population and the costs, net of tuition revenues,...

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Generationen- oder Parteienkonflikt? Eine empirische Analyse der deutschen Hochschulausgaben

Oberndorfer, Ulrich; Steiner, Viktor - 2006

In diesem Beitrag wird auf der Basis von Paneldaten für die westdeutschen Bundesländer untersucht, ob und in welchem Maße der demographische Wandel sowie die unterschiedlichen politischen Parteienkonstellationen die Hochschulausgaben auf Länderebene beeinflussen. Wir finden empirische...

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Generationen- oder Parteienkonflikt? Eine empirische Analyse der deutschen Hochschulausgaben

Oberndorfer, Ulrich; Steiner, Viktor - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

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The big sell: Privatizing East Germany's economy

Hennicke, Moritz; Lubczyk, Moritz; Mergele, Lukas - 2020

The end of communism in the 1990s probably is the most fundamental restructuring of institutions witnessed in recent history. At its core was the large-scale redistribution of previously state-owned companies. We construct a unique firm-level dataset to study this redistribution in East Germany...

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Transparency and policy competition: Experimental evidence from German citizens and politicians

Blesse, Sebastian; Lergetporer, Philipp; Nover, Justus; … - 2023

A lack of transparency about policy performance can pose a major obstacle to welfare-enhancing policy competition across jurisdictions. In parallel surveys with German citizens and state parliamentarians, we document that both groups misperceive the performance of their state's education system....

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What do economists tell us about venture capital contracts?

Tykvová, Tereza - 2000

Venture capital markets are characterized by multiple incentive problems and asymmetric information in an uncertain environment. All kinds of agency problems are present: moral hazard, adverse selection, hold-up problems, window dressing, etc. Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists enter into...

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Strategic pricing, market entry and competition: Evidence from German electricity submarkets

Nikogosian, Vigen; Veith, Tobias - 2011

more costly option for customers who have not switched to an alternative contract yet. As most German households are served … with this contract type we follow the Limit Pricing theory and show that standard contract price could be used as an … contract price could increases the incumbent's profit. We then analyze our theoretical findings employing data for German …

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Mobilizing credit for clean energy: De-risking and public loan provision under learning spillovers

Waidelich, Paul; Krug, Joscha; Steffen, Bjarne - 2023

Policymakers regularly rely on public financial institutions and government bodies to provide loans to clean energy projects. However, the market failures that public loan provision addresses and the role it can play in a policy strategy that also features de-risking measures, such as interest...

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GPD-linked Bonds as a Financing Tool for Developing Countries and Emerging Markets

Schröder, Michael; Heinemann, Friedrich; Kruse, Susanne; … - 2004

The paper examines the applicability of GDP-linked bonds for the financing of developing countries and emerging markets. GDP-linked bonds are bonds of which the coupon and/or redemption payments are tied to the GDP of the issuing country. The study encompasses a detailed empirical analysis of...

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Dispelling the shadow of fiscal dominance? Fiscal and monetary announcement effects for euro area sovereign spreads in the corona pandemic

Havlik, Annika; Heinemann, Friedrich; Helbig, Samuel; … - 2021

We use event study regressions to compare the impact of EU monetary versus fiscal policy announcements on government bond spreads of ten euro member countries. Our motivation is to evaluate which of the two players - the ECB or the EU fiscal level - has been more crucial for the stabilization of...

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