DICE Report 2009

CESifo DICE Report 4/2009
Forum:
Institutional Failures and the Life Course (Lans Bovenberg)
Securing Long-term Care in the EU: Some Key Issues (Helmuth Cremer and Pierre Pestieau)
Time for Change? US Work-Family Policy in the Age of Obama (Eileen Appelbaum and Ruth Milkman)
Defined Contribution Accounts - Still an Indispensable Idea (Jacob Kirkegaard)
Human Capital Formation in Childhood and Adolescence (Flávio Cunha and James Heckman)
Research Report:
Public Debt and Demography - An International Comparison Using Generational Accounting (Christian Hagist, Stefan Moog, Bernd Raffelhüschen and Johannes Vatter)
Women's Empowerment: Gender-related Indices as a Guide for Policy (Ulrike Jäger and Anja Rohwer)
Reform Model:
East Germany Today: Successes and Failures (Joachim Ragnitz)
Database:
Worldwide Governance Indicators: Government Effectiveness, 2008
Providing Evidence for Evidence-Based Health Policies: Comparative Effectiveness Research in Four Countries
Small Firms Exemptions from Employment Protection
The Elusive European Electricity Market
Developments in OECD Product Market Regulations
Class Size and Student-Teacher Ratio
News:
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CESifo DICE Report 3/2009
Forum:
Methods for Restructuring Banks (Marc Quintyn)
Banking System Bailout- Scandinavian Style (B. Espen Eckbo)
Overcoming the Global Financial Crisis: Some Lessons from Japan's "Lost Decade" (Kenneth Kang and Murtaza Syed)
Resolving Nonperforming Assets in the Czech Republic: Theory and Practice(Jan Cimburek, Miroslav Kollár, Lubos Komárek and Pavel Rezábek)
Sales to Foreign Banks in Emerging Asia (Ramkishen S. Rajan and Sasidaran Gopalan)
Research Report:
How much Redistribution do Welfare States Achieve? The Role of Cash Transfers and Household Taxes (Michael Förster and Peter Whiteford)
Measuring Corruption: A Comparison between the Transparency International's Corruption Peceptions Index and the World Bank's Worldwide Governance Indicators (Anja Rohwer)
Reform Model:
Germany goes ahead with Health Vouchers (Wolfram F. Richter)
Database:
Investment in High Speed Internet in the Course of Economic Stimulus Packages
Trends in R&D Expenditures and Government Intervention
Stabilizing the Banking Sector in the Face of the Financial Crisis
Business Regulations in International Comparison: Getting Credit
Measurement of Performance in Environmental Policy Making
Flexible Working Arrangements
News:
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CESifo DICE Report 2/2009
Forum:
How to Draw up a Credible International Rule System for Financial Stabilility (Horst Siebert)
Optimal Structures for Financial Regulation and Supervision (David G. Mayes)
Multinational Banking and Regulatory Challenges: Lessons from the US Experience with AIG (Robert A. Eisenbeis)
Lessons from the Banking Crisis: A Return to Narrow Banking (Paul De Grauwe)
Research Report:
Institutions and Growth in OECD Countries (Theo Eicher, Wolfgang Ochel, Oliver Röhn and Anja Rohwer)
Employment Protection: Concepts and Measurement (Wolfgang Ochel)
Reform Model:
Governance in Australian Universities: Where Next? (James Swansson and Deborah Blackman)
Parental Leave in the Netherlands (Janneke Plantenga and Chantal Remery)
Database:
Worldwide Governance Indicators: Rule of Law, 2007
R&D Subsidies: Large Firms and SMEs
Do Fathers Still Play a Peripheral Role in Daily Family Life?
Tackling Undeclared Work
Pharmaceutical Sector Regulation in OECD Countries
Fiscal Incentives for R&D
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CESifo DICE Report 1/2009
Forum:
Women, Culture and Economics (Raquel Fernández)
The Intergenerational Transmission of Attitudes (Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman and Uwe Sunde)
The Effect of Culture on the Functioning of Institutions: Evidence from European Regions (Mariaflavia Harari and Guido Tabellini)
Cultural Ecomomics (Bruno S. Frey)
Research Report:
International Evidence on School Tracking: A Review (Ludger Woessmann)
Regulatory Framework for Next-Generation Access Networks Across Europe (Nina Czernich, Florian Engl, Oliver Falck, Thomas Kiessl and Tobias Kretschmer)
Reform Model:
US Experience with Federal Budget Rules (Alan J. Auerbach)
Database:
Pension Reforms in OECD Countries
International Mobility of the Highly Skilled
Manning of the Bank Supervisory Authority
Authority and Liability of Bank Supervisors
On Europe’s Gas (In-)Security
Evaluation of Pesticide Regulation
News:
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