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Why We Should Use High Values for the Smoothing Parameter of the Hodrick-Pres...
The HP filter is the most popular filter for extracting the unobserved trend and cycle components from a time series. Many researchers consider the smoothing parameter λ = 1600... -
Physical Activity of Adults: A Survey of Correlates, Determinants, and Effects
We survey the literature on the link of labour market related outcomes to individual physical activity and sports participation. The first part of the survey is devoted to the... -
Youth Unemployment in the OECD: The Role of Institutions
This paper analyses the risk of unemployment, unemployment duration, and the risk of longterm unemployment immediately after apprenticeship graduation. Unemployed apprenticeship... -
Intergenerational transmission of unemployment - evidence for German sons (re...
This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant... -
Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment (Replication Data)
The study uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) provided by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW). Data access will be granted after signing a... -
Group Decision Making in a Corruption Experiment: China and Germany Compared ...
This paper reports on an experimental investigation of individual versus group decision making in a corruption experiment. -
Religious Loyalty and Acceptance of Corruption (replication data)
This study investigates the relationship between religiously-induced internalized values of individuals and their specific attitudes regarding the acceptance of corruption. The... -
Determinants of Willingness to Bribe: Micro Evidence from the Educational Sec...
We use a unique dataset based on reported direct personal bribes paid by arts students in China at examinations and in the college admissions process to study willingness to... -
Bribing Behaviour and Sample Selection: Evidence from Post-Socialist Countrie...
The Life in Transition Survey II, conducted jointly by the EBRD and the World Bank in late 2010, surveyed almost 39,000 households in 34 countries, mainly in the former... -
Corruption and Productivity: Firm-level Evidence (replication data)
This paper uses the 2009 EBRD/World Bank Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) of firms in 28 transition and developed countries. The data set and... -
Family background and educational attainment - Are there birth order effects ...
This paper contributes to the literature on the determinants of children’s human capital by analyzing the effects of birth order in Germany. These effects are typically... -
Terrorism and International Tourism: The Case of Germany (replication data)
We analyse how German tourists react to unanticipated shocks that alter their risk perception of selected tourism destinations. Using a difference-in-difference strategy which... -
Averaging Across Asset Allocation Models (replication data)
Combination of asset allocation models is rewarding if (i) the applied risk function is concave and (ii) there is no dominating model. We show that most common risk... -
On the Rationality of Medium-Term Tax Revenue Forecasts: Evidence from German...
This paper examines tax revenue projections in Germany for the period 1968 to 2012 with a focus on forecasting rationality. It is shown that tax revenue forecasts for the... -
Inter-industrial Relations and Sectoral Employment Development in German Regi...
This paper analyses the impact of cluster structures on employment development in Germany according to the hypothesis of Porter (1998). It develops a new way of measuring the... -
Early Life Adversity and Children’s Competence Development: Evidence from the...
This paper investigates the role of early life adversity and home resources in terms of competence formation and school achievement based on data from an epidemiological cohort... -
Unemployment Compensation and Wages: Evidence from the German Hartz Reforms (...
Using the introduction of fixed unemployment assistance in Germany in 2005 as a unique natural experiment, we find strong evidence that decreased unemployment compensation has... -
Identifying free-riding in home-renovation programs using revealed preference...
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