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In theory, individual producer responsibility (IPR) creates incentives for "design-for-recycling". Yet in practice, implementing IPR is challenging, particularly if applied to waste electric and electronic equipment. This article discusses different options for implementing IPR schemes and producers' under German WEEE legislation. In addition, practical aspects of a German "return share" brand sampling ...
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Waste Management & Research
29 (2011), 9, S. 931-944
| Vera Susanne Rotter, Perrine Chancerel, Wolf-Peter Schill
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We use a game-theoretic model to analyze the impacts of a hypothetical fleet of plug-in electric vehicles on the imperfectly competitive German electricity market. Electric vehicles bring both additional demand and additional storage capacity to the market. We determine the effects on prices, welfare, and electricity generation for various cases with different players in charge of vehicle operations. ...
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Energy Policy
39 (2011), 10, S. 6178-6189
| Wolf-Peter Schill
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We analyse the effect of mass violent conflict on individual expectations in Northern Uganda. We find that the expectations of the future economic situation are negatively affected by recent conflict while the effect on broadly defined welfare is less robust.
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Economics Letters
113 (2011), 3, S. 288-291
| Carlos Bozzoli, Tilman Brück, Tony Muhumuza
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The paper investigates the extent to which parental unemployment affects young people's far right-wing party affinity. Cross-sectional estimates from the German Socio-Economic Panel show a positive relationship between growing up with unemployed parents and support for the extreme right. The paper uses differences in parental unemployment experience during childhood across siblings to investigate a ...
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Journal of the Royal Statistical Society / Series A
174 (2011), 3, S. 737-758
| Thomas Siedler
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Since 1996 regional rail passenger services in Germany have been subject to franchising. The franchising framework is characterised by a strong decentralisation of responsibilities, a considerable degree of freedom for the responsible authorities regarding contract design, a sound financial basis for awarding contracts, and the free choice of authorities between tendering procedures and direct awarding ...
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International Journal of Transport Economics
38 (2011), 2, S. 173-200
| Heike Link, Rico Merkert
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Germany's water supply industry is characterized by a multitude of utilities and widely diverging prices, possibly resulting from structural differences beyond the control of firms' management, but also from inefficiencies. In this article, we use Data Envelopment Analysis and Stochastic Frontier Analysis to determine the utilities' Technical Efficiency (TE) scores based on cross-sectional data from ...
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Applied Economics
44 (2012), 29, S. 3749-3764
| Michael Zschille, Matthias Walter
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We employ covariance structure models to decompose the cross-sectional variance of male wages in Germany into its permanent and transitory parts. We find that the steep growth of cross-sectional inequality during the early 2000s is predominantly driven by transitory factors.
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Economics Letters
113 (2011), 2, S. 143-146
| Michal Myck, Richard Ochmann, Salmai Qari
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The objective of making it easier for parents to successfully balance career and family has recently taken on heightened importance for German family policy. In the last few years, reforms have been implemented in German care policies. In this contribution, we systematically review and evaluate German care policies before and after the implementation of these reforms. We start by discussing international ...
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Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik
12 (2011), S1, S. 4-27
| C. Katharina Spieß
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Transnational terrorism in Western countries has raised questions about security measures that constrain civil liberties. This is the first paper that uses a terrorist attack, that in the London 7/7/2005, as an exogenous source of variation to study the dynamics of risk perception and the effect on the readiness to trade off civil liberties for enhanced security. In this framework we show that willingness ...
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European Journal of Political Economy
27 (2011), Supplement 1, S. S89-S106
| Carlos Bozzoli, Cathérine Müller
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In this article, we estimate the total costs of the German participation in the Afghanistan war, both past and future. This is a hugely complex and uncertain calculation, which depends on several important assumptions. These assumptions pertain to the different cost channels and the shares of these channels that can be attributed to the German participation in the war. By calculating the costs of the ...
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Journal of Peace Research
48 (2011), 6, S. 793-805
| Tilman Brück, Olaf J. de Groot, Fritz Schneider
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Hedonism, or wanting to feel good, is central to human motivation. At times, however, people also seek to maintain or enhance negative affect or to dampen positive affect, and this can be instrumental for the later attainment of their goals. Here, we investigate the assumption that such contra-hedonic orientation is cognitively more demanding than prohedonic orientation, above and beyond the effects ...
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Emotion
11 (2011), 3, S. 656-665
| Michaela Riediger, Cornelia Wrzus, Florian Schmiedek, Gert G. Wagner, Ulman Lindenberger
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We develop a duopoly model with advertising supported platforms and analyze incentives of a superior firm to license its advanced technologies to an inferior rival. We highlight the role of two technologies characteristic for media platforms: the technology to produce content and to place advertisements. Licensing incentives are driven solely by indirect network effects arising from the aversion of ...
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The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
11 (2011), 1, S. 1-49
| Geza Sapi, Irina Suleymanova
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In this paper, we compare different policy incentives for overcoming investment uncertainties that are typical for low-carbon technologies prior to their commercialisation, some of which may be attributable to market failures. The paper focuses on the particular case of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies and conducts a qualitative multi-criteria analysis of different public policy support ...
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Global Environmental Change
21 (2011), 2, S. 346-357
| Christoph von Stechow, Jim Watson, Barbara Praetorius
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What determines the direction of spread of currency crises? We examine data on waves of currency crises in 1992, 1994, 1997, and 1998 to evaluate several hypotheseson the determinants of contagion. We simultaneously consider trade competition, financial links, and institutional similarity to the "ground zero" country as potential drivers of contagion. To overcome data limitations and account for model ...
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Journal of International Money and Finance
30 (2011), 5, S. 831-848
| Amil Dasgupta, Roberto Leon-Gonzalez, Anja Shortland
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Wir berichten über die Evaluation des Pilotprojektes eines Berliner Sozialamts zur Integration junger Sozialhilfeempfänger in das Erwerbsleben. Dem Workfare-Prinzip folgend war dieTeilnahme an dem Programm für die ausgewählten Personen verpflichtend. Wer die Teilnahme verweigerte, erhielt keine Unterstützungszahlungen. Um die Wirkung des Programmsuntersuchen zu können, sollten Engpässe bei der Programmkapazität ...
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Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung
44 (2011), 1-2, S. 197-203
| Hilmar Schneider, Arne Uhlendorff, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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In diesem Beitrag werden die Beschäftigungswirkungen von Lohnsubventionen und eines Mindestlohnes für Deutschland analysiert. Studien zum Mindestlohn im Baugewerbe und Simulationen zu einem allgemeinen Mindestlohn weisen einhellig auf Beschäftigungsverluste durch einen gesetzlichen Mindestlohn für die Bundesrepublik hin. Die Größenordnung hängt vom Mindestlohnniveau, Gütermarktreaktionen und der Reichweite ...
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Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung
44 (2011), 1-2, S. 181-195
| Kai-Uwe Müller, Viktor Steiner
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Das ökonomische Potenzial ethnischer und kultureller Vielfalt wird häufig verkannt. Die Ergebnisse neuerer Studien, diein diesem Beitrag zusammengefasst werden, zeigen jedoch, dass sich "weiche" Faktoren wie etwa Einstellungen, Wahrnehmungen und Identitäten, hier insbesondere ethnische Identitäten, wesentlich auf ökonomische Ergebnisse auswirken können. Dies geht sowohl aus Analysen des Prozesses kultureller ...
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Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung
44 (2011), 1-2, S. 81-89
| Ulf Rinne, Simone Schüller, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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We discuss potential developments of the world natural gas industry through 2030. We use the World Gas Model (WGM), a multi-period strategic representation of the global natural gas sector, between 2005 and 2030. We specify a 'base case' and then analyse the sensitivity of the world natural gas system with scenarios, including various supply scenarios (e.g., emergence of large volumes of unconventional ...
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International Journal of Global Energy Issues
35 (2011), 1, S. 64-84
| Daniel Huppmann, Ruud Egging, Franziska Holz, Christian von Hirschhausen, Sophia Rüster
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Average market prices for intermittent generation technologies are lower than for conventional generation. This has a technical reason but can be exaggerated in the presence of market power. When there is much wind smaller amounts of conventional generation technologies are required, and prices are lower, while at times of little wind prices are higher. This effect reflects the value of different generation ...
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Energy Policy
38 (2010), 7, S. 3198-3210
| Paul Twomey, Karsten Neuhoff
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This study analyzes real wage cyclicality for male full-time workers within employer-employee matches in Germany over the period 1984-2004. Five different wage measures are compared: the standard hourly wage rate; hourly wage earnings including overtime and bonus pay; the effective wage, which takes into account unpaid overtime; and monthly earnings, with and without additional pay. None of the hourly ...
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Labour Economics
18 (2011), 6, S. 786-797
| Silke Anger