Does Membership in International Organizations Increase Governments’ Credibility? Testing the Effects of Delegating Powers [PDF]
This paper analyzes whether nation-state governments can increase their credibility by becoming members of international organizations. Credibility is an important asset because it determines the real interest rate and is expected to have an important ...
Axel Dreher, Stefan Voigt
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Horizontal Mergers, Involuntary Unemployment, and Welfare [PDF]
Standard welfare analysis of horizontal mergers usually refers to two effects: the anticompetitive market power effect reduces welfare by enabling firms to charge prices above marginal costs, whereas the procompetitive efficiency effect increases welfare
Jürgen-Peter Kretschmer +1 more
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[Conceptualizing and Measuring the Quality of Adaptive Learning Support in Kindergarten Using Mathematical Board Games. A Study in Germany and Switzerland]. [PDF]
J Math Didakt, 2022 Meier-Wyder A +6 more
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Livelihood and Care of the Elderly: Determinants of Public Attitudes in Japan [PDF]
This study analyses public attitudes towards the degree of government involvement in ensuring the livelihood and care of the elderly in Japan. Using four waves of individual-level annual data from the Japanese General Social Survey collected over the ...
Bernd Hayo, Hiroyuki Ono
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[Definition of hip dysplasia in 2023 : Signs of macro and micro instability]. [PDF]
Orthopadie (Heidelb), 2023 Heimann AF +5 more
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Market Access, Regional Price Level and Wage Disparities: The German Case [PDF]
In this paper we use the NEG framework of the Helpman model to investigate the spatial distribution of wages across German labour market regions under different assumptions.
Hans-Friedrich Eckey, Reinhold Kosfeld
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[Structural discrimination and racism in hospital care: the role of the economic conditions in intercultural openness]. [PDF]
Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz, 2022 Schödwell S +6 more
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Multinational Capital Structure and Tax Competition [PDF]
This paper analyzes tax competition when welfare maximizing jurisdictions levy source-based corporate taxes and multinational enterprises choose tax-efficient capital-to-debt ratios.
Matthias Wrede
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Contracting still matters! Or: How to design a letter of intent [PDF]
Any cooperation that profits from relation-specific investments suffers from the well-known hold-up problem. If investments are not enforceable by an outside authority, the gains fall prey to individual opportunism caused by a free-rider problem.
Evelyn Korn, Stephan Meisenzahl
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[Atypical atrial fibrillation : Diagnostics and therapy]. [PDF]
Herzschrittmacherther Elektrophysiol, 2022 Kottmaier M +19 more
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