[Conceptualizing and Measuring the Quality of Adaptive Learning Support in Kindergarten Using Mathematical Board Games. A Study in Germany and Switzerland]. [PDF]
Meier-Wyder A +6 more
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Identification Through Heteroscedasticity in a Multicountry and Multimarket Framework [PDF]
This paper formally proves that Rigobon and Sack (2004)'s approach of identifying monetary policy shocks through heteroscedasticity can be extended to a multimarket and multicountry framework.
Bernd Hayo, Britta Niehof
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Women and Work: What Role Do Social Norms Play? [PDF]
Against the background of the current economic research which concentrates particularly on individual and structural factors, this paper examines if and to what extent social norms (in terms of attitudes towards gender roles and work commitment) can make
Andreia Tolciu, Ulrich Zierahn
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A Historical Note on the Beauty Contest [PDF]
Alain Ledoux, who was one of over 6,000 chess players taking part in Bühren and Frank´s (2012) online Beauty Contest experiment, turned out to be the forgotten inventor of that game. We reconstruct the birth of the Beauty Contest.
Björn Frank +2 more
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Does Arbitration Blossom when State Courts are Bad? [PDF]
It is often conjectured that non-state dispute resolution blossoms when state courts are not independent or are perceived as low-quality courts. This conjecture implies a substitutive relationship between state and non-state dispute resolution.
Stefan Voigt
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[Atypical atrial fibrillation : Diagnostics and therapy]. [PDF]
Kottmaier M +19 more
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Participation and Decision Making: A Three-person Power-to-take Experiment [PDF]
It is often conjectured that participatory decision making may increase acceptance even of unfavorable decisions. The present paper tests this conjecture in a three-person power-to-take game.
Max Albert, Vanessa Mertins
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Inefficient but Effective? A field experiment on the effectiveness of direct and indirect transfer mechanisms [PDF]
We conduct a field experiment on direct and indirect transfer mechanisms. It shows that people are willing to donate significantly more if the donation is indirect, i.e., it is tied to the purchase of a good with a price premium, rather than made ...
Günther G. Schulze, Hannes Koppel
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The Oracle/PeopleSoft Case: Unilateral Effects, Simulation Models and Econometrics in Contemporary Merger Control [PDF]
An increasingly important part of contemporary merger control both in the US and the EU is unilateral effects analysis, particularly with regard to oligopolistic mergers. In practice, this requires econometric analyses of past market data and, above all,
Arndt Christiansen, Oliver Budzinski
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Coexistence of Service- and Facility-Based Competition: The Relevance of Access Prices for "Make-or-Buy"-Decisions [PDF]
This paper models competition between two firms, which provide broadband Internet access in regional markets with different population densities. The firms, an incumbent and an entrant, differ in two ways.
Christian M. Bender, Georg Götz
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