[PDF] Top 20 Trübswetter, Parvati (2005): Essays in Empirical Population Economics. Dissertation, LMU München: Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät

... The second paper is concerned about the migration decision of East Ger- man workers to move to West Germany. Cumulative net migration from East to West Germany amounts to 1.3 million persons or 7.5 per cent of the ... See full document

... This financial motive is also at the core of a model about mortgage refinancing by Angelini and Simmons (2005). Households are assumed to pay an interest rate on mortgage borrowings that differs from the one ... See full document

... in population density, separately measured within inhabited areas and across the entire municipality (“Density”), the shares of the female population, the working age population, the ... See full document

... (2000; 2005) looks at the question whether or not incentive contracts can make collusion harder to sustain while abstracting from the effect a given incentive has on the agent’s choice of ... See full document

... However, it is questionable whether Ghana’s ethnic setup features the necessary precon- ditions for large-scale redistribution towards the respective president’s co-ethnics because none of the two politically invested ... See full document

... Hypothetical health insurance choices. Individual preferences across different products can be inferred either from their actual choices (“revealed preferences”) or using “stated preference” methods (see Kesternich et ... See full document

... Recent studies stress the importance of teachers for student learning. However, the question what actually determines teacher quality, i.e. what makes one teacher more successful in enhancing her students’ performance ... See full document

... Moreover, there is an increase in patenting activity in complex technologies, such as electronics or semiconductors, where products consist of several different technologies which are protected by even more patents. In ... See full document

... al., 2005; Boz, 2011; Corsetti, Guimarães, and Roubini, 2006; Steinkamp and Westermann, ...our empirical analysis, both with respect to the occurrence and severity of arrears and the relative size of ... See full document

... is Standard & Poor’s with a market share of 40%, followed closely by Moody’s with 39% and Fitch with 16%. While Moody’s is an independent joint stock company, Standard & Poor’s is a subsidiary of McGraw Hill ... See full document

... The theory of asymmetric information is well understood for a long time. The phenomenon of “adverse selection”was first analyzed by Akerlof (1970). Rothschild and Stiglitz (1976) introduced the notion of adverse ... See full document

... 2002, 2005; Rodrik, Subramanian, and Trebbi, 2002) versus geography ...the empirical growth literature and include a so-called policy conditioning ... See full document

... Our work is related to a number of earlier contributions. Abramson and Aldrich (1995) and Rosenstone, Behr, and Lazarus (1996), for example, study the relevance of third party and independent candidates in the history of ... See full document

... finds empirical evidence for the heterogeneity in the subscriber switching costs and concludes that consumers with high switching costs end up paying higher ... See full document

... invented and explained by Van Leeuwen and Maas (2011) builds upon HISCO, assigns each occupational code one out of 12 social classes, and defines a social class as "a set of individuals with the same life ... See full document

... Class Scheme (HISCLASS) invented and explained by Van Leeuwen and Maas (2011) builds upon HISCO, assigns each occupational code one out of 12 social classes, and defines a social class as "a set of individuals with ... See full document

... political economics, that politicians are not necessarily interested in what is best for their constituency but rather in what they can get out of it for ... See full document

... I especially thank my colleagues at the Department of Business Cycle Analy- ses and Surveys at the Ifo for the pleasant working atmosphere and the ongo- ing support I experienced from them. I am grateful to my fellow ... See full document

... There is a great deal of evidence in the empirical literature that bargaining plays a role in household decision making. All major contributions in this field rely on assignability assumptions, i.e., they assume ... See full document

... albeit not exclusive, area where economic activity is concentrated. Even though an analysis at the county level would give more regional variation and hence more statistical power, the main advantage of our approach is ... See full document