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Regional Industrial Effects in Germany from a Potential Gas Deficit
We estimate potential regional industrial effects in case of a threatening gas deficit. For Germany, the reduction leads to a potential decrease in industrial value added by... -
Retained Earnings, Foreign Portfolio Ownership, and the German Current Accoun...
In some countries, a sizable fraction of savings is derived from corporate savings. Although larger, traded corporations are often co-owned by foreign portfolio investors,... -
Regional Supply and Demand Fundamentals in the German Housing Price Boom
Over the last decade, German housing prices have increased unprecedentedly. Drawing on quality-adjusted housing price data at the district level, we show that regional... -
Revisiting gender identity and relative income within households: A cautionar...
We show that Bertrand et al.'s (QJE, 2015, ) finding of a sharp drop in the relative income distribution within married couples at the point where wives start to earn more than... -
How does heterogeneity shape the socioeconomic gradient in health satisfactio...
Individual heterogeneity plays a key role in explaining variation in self-reported health and its socioeconomic gradient. It is hypothesised that the influence of this... -
How well do Markov switching models describe actual business cycles? The case...
The objective of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of using a Markov switching model to measure the synchronization of business cycles. We use a Bayesian, Gibbs... -
Monitoring structural change in dynamic econometric models (replication data)
The classical approach to testing for structural change employs retrospective tests using a historical data set of a given length. Here we consider a wide array of... -
Did the German minimum wage reform influence (un)employment growth in 2015? E...
Using the variation across space, age and sex and the variation across space and sectors, we analyze the relationship between the minimum wage and (un-)employment growth in... -
The Effects of Germany’s New Minimum Wage on Employment and Welfare Dependency
In January 2015, Germany introduced a federal, statutory minimum wage of 8.50 Euro per hour. This study evaluates the effects of this policy on regular and marginal employment...
