The majority of industrial organizations literature on network externalities looks at firm behavior under given market characteristics. The present paper instead asks the question whether the presence of network…
In this paper, we study the effect of skill-biased technological change on unemployment when benefits are linked to the evolution of average income and when this is not the case. In the former case, an increase…
This paper uses Granger non{causality tests to analyze if channel competition exists between the companion websites of 93 German newspapers observed between I/1998 and II/2005. It provides econometric evidence…
Based on unique administrative data, which has only recently become available, this paper estimates the employment effects of the most important type of public sector sponsored training in Germany, namely the…
This paper analyses whether Taylor-type policy rules can be used to describe monetary policy in the U.S., Germany, and the euro area between 1992-2004, and if the interest rate setting in one currency area…
Analysis of the effective tax burden of companies in Europe based on an approach introduced by Devereux/Griffith. International comparison of effective tax burden of the analysed locations from 1996 to 2005.
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