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U.S. shale gas production is generally expected to continue its fast rise of the last years. However, a cautious evaluation is needed. Shale gas resources are potentially overestimated and it is uncertain to what extent they can be economically produced. The adverse environmental effects of ever more wells being drilled may lead to a fall in public acceptance and the strengthening of U.S. regulation. ...
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Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy
4 (2015), 1, S. 131-151
| Philipp M. Richter
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We propose that a comprehensive understanding of age differences in affective responses to emotional situations requires the distinction of 2 components of affect dynamics: reactivity, the deviation from a person’s baseline, and recovery, the return to this baseline. The present study demonstrates the utility of this approach with a focus on age differences inresponses of negative affect and heart ...
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Psychology and Aging
29 (2014), 3, S. 563-576
| Cornelia Wrzus, Viktor Müller, Gert G. Wagner, Ulman Lindenberger, Michaela Riediger
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We analyze the effect of the receipt of remittances on the education and health of children in Kyrgyzstan during a volatile period of their recent history, 2005–2009. The country experienced revolution in 2005 and the global financial crisis beginning in 2008. Both events impact human capital investment, and the changes vary by region of the country. We use fixed effects estimation and fixed effects, ...
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Journal of Comparative Economics
42 (2014), 3, S. 770-785
| Antje Kröger, Kathryn H. Anderson
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We analyze various regulatory regimes for electricity transmission investment in the context of a power system transformation toward renewable energy. Distinctive developments of the generation mix are studied, assuming that a shift toward renewables may have temporary or permanent impacts on network congestion. We specifically analyze the relative performance of a combined merchant-regulatory price-cap ...
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The Energy Journal
36 (2015), 4, S. 105-128
| Jonas Egerer, Juan Rosellón, Wolf-Peter Schill
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We propose a merchant-regulatory framework to promote investment in the European natural gas network infrastructure based on a price cap over two-part tariffs. As suggested by Vogelsang (J Regul Econ 20:141–165, 2001) and Hogan et al. (J Regul Econ38:113–143, 2010), a profit maximizing network operator facing this regulatory constraint will intertemporally rebalance the variable and fixed part of its ...
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Networks and Spatial Economics
15 (2015), 1, 149-181
| Anne Neumann, Juan Rosellón, Hannes Weigt
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Care for people with chronic conditions is an issue of increasing importance in industrialized countries. This article examines three recent efforts at care coordination that have been evaluated but not yet included in systematic reviews. The first is Germany'sGesundes Kinzigtal, a population-based approach that organizes care across all health service sectors and indications in a targeted region. ...
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Health Affairs
33 (2014), 9, S. 1549-1558
| Reinhard Busse, Juliane Stahl
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Economic disparity between ethnic groups is sometimes supposed to be the main driver of ethnic conflict. Understanding the extent and the sources of such disparity is then important to help formulate policies that aim at avoiding further conflict. This paper analyzes economic disparity between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in southern Kyrgyzstan. These groups were involved in violent clashes in the recent past. ...
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Journal of Comparative Economics
42 (2014), Iss. 4, S. 970-982
| Damir Esenaliev, Susan Steiner
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We investigate how prenatal economic fluctuations affected birth weight in Argentina during the period from January 2000 to December 2005 and document its procyclicality. We find evidence that the birth weight of children born to low-educated (less than high school) mothers is sensitive to macroeconomic fluctuations during both the first and third trimesters of pregnancy, while those of high-educated ...
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The Review of Economics and Statistics
96 (2014), 3, S. 550-562
| Carlos Bozzoli, Climent Quintana-Domeque
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We study how international migration changes the private transfers made between households in the migrant sending communities of developing countries. A priori, it is indeterminate whether migration and remittances strengthen or weaken the degree of private transfers in these communities. From a policy perspective, public income redistribution programs would have an important role to play if migration ...
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Journal of Comparative Economics
43 (2015), S. 690-705
| Tanika Chakraborty, Bakhrom Mirkasimov, Susan Steiner
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Other-regarding preferences in adults have been examined in depth in the literature. Research has shown that spiteful preferences play a crucial role in the development of human large-scale cooperation. However, there is little evidence of the factors explaining spiteful behavior in children. We investigate the relationship between children’s cognitive skills and spiteful behavior in a sample of 214 ...
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Journal of Economic Psychology
45 (2014), S. 154-167
| Elisabeth Bügelmayer, C. Katharina Spieß
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Based on data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the Socio-economic Panel, we study the class mobility of three concurrent generations in the U.S. and Germany. We find that, in both countries, the grandfathers’ class is directly associated with their grandchildren's social position. We propose three possible mechanisms which could explain the observed multigenerational mobility patterns. First, ...
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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
35 (2014), S. 35-42
| Florian R. Hertel, Olaf Groh-Samberg
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One of the central debates surrounding the design of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme is the approach to address carbon leakage concerns. Correctly identifying the economic activities exposed to the risk of carbon leakage represents the first step in mitigating the risk effectively. This paper assesses the robustness of the quantitative assessment criteria used by the European Commission ...
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Environmental & Resource Economics
60 (2015), 1, S. 99-124
| Misato Sato, Karsten Neuhoff, Verena Graichen, Katja Schumacher, Felix Matthes
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According to the literature on traditional banking, lenders often discriminate against female borrowers. However, studies of Peer-to-Peer lending in the United States find that female borrowers have better chances of obtaining funds than do males. We provide evidence on the success of female borrowers at a large German peer-to-peer lending platform. Our results show that there is no effect of gender ...
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German Economic Review
15 (2014), 4, S. 436-452
| Nataliya Barasinska, Dorothea Schäfer
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Will die Politik evidenzbasierte Entscheidungen über die Steuerung gesamtgesellschaftlicher Wohlfahrt und Lebensqualität treffen, so bedarf sie statistisch abgesicherter Informationen über die vergangene, aktuelle und auch künftige Entwicklung relevanter Phänomene. Vor dem Diktum einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung sind in den letzten Jahrzehnten zahlreiche neue Ansätze der Wohlfahrtsmessung entstanden. ...
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Schmollers Jahrbuch
134 (2014), 1, S. 107-128
| Beate Jochimsen, Christian Raffer
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This paper evaluates the price effects of the merger of two major U.K. book retailers. We use a dataset containing monthly scanner data on a sample of 200 books in 50 local markets for four years around the merger. We compare the price changes after the merger in shops located in areas where both chains were present before the merger and in areas where only one chain was present. We also investigate ...
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The Journal of Industrial Economics
64 (2016),1, S. 170-200
| Luca Aguzzoni, Elena Argentesi, Lorenzo Ciari, Tomaso Duso, Massimo Tognoni
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Der Beitrag ordnet die Bereitstellung von Forschungsinfrastruktur in den Sozial-, Verhaltens- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften in die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer forschungsbasierten Evaluation und Beratung von Politik ein. Entsprechend werden einige Hinweise für die Weiterentwicklung der einschlägigen Forschungsinfrastruktur in Deutschland und im internationalen Kontext gegeben.
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Schmollers Jahrbuch
134 (2014), 1, S. 89-96
| Gert G. Wagner
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We here present the earliest input–output table of Germany: It covers forty economic branches, five final demand categories, and five primary inputs. The symmetric table for 1936 is completely based on original statistical data and does not rely on separate supply and use tables. The core of our endeavor is based on the German industrial census of 1936. The input–output table offers a new benchmark ...
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European Review of Economic History
18 (2014), 4, S. 371-397
| Rainer Fremdling, Reiner Stäglin
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Nach der Privatisierung entwickelte sich der Bankensektor in Osteuropa dynamisch. Dazu trugen massive Investitionen hauptsächlich westeuropäischer Kreditinstitute bei. Das änderte sich mit der Finanzkrise 2008/2009. Heute halten sich die Banken mit der Kreditvergabe zurück. Das Wachstumspotential in Osteuropa wird nicht ausgeschöpft. Voraussetzung für eine Ankurbelung der Kreditvergabe wäre, die Bankbilanzen ...
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Osteuropa
64 (2014), 7, S. 85-103
| Hella Engerer
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Early literacy and numeracy activities in family and preschool are considered important for promoting children’s early literacy and numeracy skills. However, little research exists, especially in Germany, on the frequency of such activities in different contexts. The current study identified patterns of literacy and numeracy activities in preschools and their relation to structural preschool characteristics ...
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Research Papers in Education
29 (2014), 5, S. 577-597
| Simone Lehrl, Wilfried Smidt, Christiane Grosse, David Richter
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Adequate extension of electricity transmission networks is required for integrating fluctuating renewable energy sources, such as wind power, into electricity systems. We study the performance of different regulatory approaches for network expansion in the context of realistic demand patterns and fluctuating wind power. In particular, we are interested in the relative performance of a combined merchant-regulatory ...
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Journal of Regulatory Economics
47 (2015) 1, S. 1-28
| Wolf-Peter Schill, Jonas Egerer, Juan Rosellón