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Mitigating Extortive Corruption? Experimental Evidence
Extortive petty corruption takes place when a public official elicits small bribes from citizens for providing public services that the citizens are legally entitled to receive.... -
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... -
Coaching Disadvantaged Young People: Evidence from Firm Level Data (replicati...
In Germany, apprenticeship training firms currently face a shrinking number of qualified schoolleavers because of smaller birth cohorts and an increasing proportion of school... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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. -
Determinants of Business Fixed Investment: Evidence from German Firm-Level Da...
Data and program routines for the paper "Determinants of Business Fixed Investment: Evidence from German Firm-Level Data" accepted for publication in Journal of Economics and... -
Migration and Regional Wage Disparities in Germany (replication data)
The study provides an analysis of the effect of migration and commuting on regional wage disparities. For the analysis most variables are taken from the INKAR dataset... -
Matching as a stochastic process (replication data)
Results of multi-party bargaining are usually described by concepts from cooperative game theory, in particular by the core. In one-on-one matching, core allocations are... -
Forward or Backward Looking? The Economic Discourse and the Observed Reality ...
Replication data for the analysis in the article. A description is provided in the file Documentation.pdf. -
Flexible Link Function for Duration Models (Replication Data)
This folder contains the data and software codes used in the article "A flexible link function for discrete-time duration models". The R and Stata codes are provided in separate... -
On the Predictive Content of Nonlinear Transformations of Lagged Autoregressi...
This folder contains the data set used in "On the predictive content of nonlinear transformations of lagged autoregression residuals and time series observations". The data set... -
Characteristics of Banking Crises (replication data)
This paper compares determinants of banking sector crises using an early warning system approach in a diverse cross-country panel. We cover 152 countries using annual data from... -
Life satisfaction in Germany after reunification: Additional insights on the ...
The authors update previous findings and add new insights on the East-West gap in overall life satisfaction and its trend by using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel...