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Randomization in Online Experiments
Most scientists consider randomized experiments to be the best method available to establish causality. On the Internet, during the past twenty-five years, randomized... -
Interregional Migration of Human Capital and Unemployment Dynamics: Evidence ...
Since the mid-90s interregional migration flows in Italy have dramatically increased, especially from the South to the North. These flows are characterized by a strong component... -
Analyzing the Efficiency of County Road Production– Evidence from Eastern Ger...
This study analyzes the efficiency of the road production by local governments using data envelopment analysis. The production of roads is a costly public service, which makes... -
Saving Behavior and Housing Wealth - Evidence from German Micro Data (replica...
Housing property is the most important position in a household’s wealth portfolio. Even though there is strong evidence that house price cycles and saving patterns behave... -
Minimum Wage Data Access and Estimates
This details the series we used and how to access them. The second document describes how teh estimates were obtained. -
Public Investment Subsidies and Firm Performance – Evidence from Germany – re...
This paper assesses firm-level effects of the single largest investment subsidy programme in Germany. The analysis considers grants allocated to firms in East German regions... -
Thoughts on a Fiscal Union in EMU
Using an estimated large-scale New-Keynesian model, we assess the consequences of introducing a fiscal union within EMU. We differentiate between three different scenarios:... -
The incidence of agricultural subsidies on rental rates for grassland (replic...
This paper examines the impact of agricultural subsidies on rental rates for grassland. In theory, the capitalization of subsidies into grassland rents has become increasingly... -
Active on many foreign markets (replication code)
These are the do-files used to compute the results reported in: Joachim Wagner, Active on many foreign markets: A portrait of German multi-market exporters and importers from... -
Inflation and Broadband Revisited: Evidence from an OECD Panel. A replication...
This note revisits the conjecture that the use of broadband internet lowers transaction costs and thereby inflation. Using a macro-economic panel of OECD countries, it roughly... -
Data set for Roodman replication of Bleakley 2007
Data and code for Roodman replication and reanalysis of Bleakley (2007), "Disease and Development: Evidence from Hookworm Eradication in the American South." -
Is there a Glass Ceiling over Germany?
This paper analyzes the gender wage gap across the wage distribution using 2010 data from the German Statistical Agency. I investigate East and West Germany and the public... -
Slow and Steady Wins the Race: Approximating Nash Equilibria in Nonlinear Qua...
OPTGAME DE Version 1.0 03/2018 for the article titled "Slow and Steady Wins the Race: Approximating Nash Equilibria in Nonlinear Quadratic Tracking Games" -
Credit Demand and Supply in Greece
Contains data used in the paper "Measuring Credit Demand and Supply: A Bayesian Model with an Application to Greece (2003–2011)" (published in the Jahrbücher für... -
Worker Personality: Another Skill Bias beyond Education in the Digital Age
We present empirical evidence suggesting that technological progress in the digital age will be biased not only with respect to skills acquired through education but... -
The Effect of Fiscal Decentralization on Corruption: A Non-linear Hypothesis
This study advances the literature on the effect of decentralization on corruption by proposing a theoretical motivation for the hypothesis that the corruption-minimizing... -
Wage Performance of Immigrants in Germany
This paper updates and deepens our understanding of the wage performance of immigrants in Germany. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel, it documents that immigrant workers... -
Should forecasters use real-time data to evaluate leading indicator models fo...
In this paper we investigate whether differences exist among forecasts using real-time or latest-available data to predict gross domestic product (GDP). We employ... -
Source Code for Spaeth Schmid - Distribution of Household Savings
This contribution contains source code for the statistical analyses executed in Jochen Späth, Kai Daniel Schmid, "The Distribution of Household Savings in Germany", Journal of...
