DICE Report 2009

CESifo DICE Report 4/2009 (Winter)

Forum: Life-Course Persprective and Social Policies - 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 (Fl�vio Cunha and James Heckman); Research Reports: Public Debt and Demography - An International Comparison Using Generational Accounting (Christian Hagist, Stefan Moog, Bernd Raffelh�schen and Johannes Vatter) - Women's Empowerment: Gender-related Indices as a Guide for Policy (Ulrike J�ger and Anja Rohwer); Reform Models: 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: New at DICE Database, Conferences, Books

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Publisher: Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich 2009

Language of publication English

Article number 11112009004000

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CESifo DICE Report 3/2009 (Autumn)

Forum: Past Experiences with Bank Restructuring - 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 Koll�r, Lubos Kom�rek and Pavel Rez�bek) - Sales to Foreign Banks in Emerging Asia (Ramkishen S. Rajan and Sasidaran Gopalan); Research Reports: How much Redistribution do Welfare States Achieve? The Role of Cash Transfers and Household Taxes (Michael F�rster 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 Models: 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: New at DICE Database, Conferences, Books

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Publisher: Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich 2009

Language of publication English

Article number 11112009003000

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CESifo DICE Report 2/2009 (Summer)

Forum: International Financial Architecture - 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 Reports: Institutions and Growth in OECD Countries (Theo Eicher, Wolfgang Ochel, Oliver R�hn and Anja Rohwer) - Employment Protection: Concepts and Measurement (Wolfgang Ochel); Reform Models: 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; News: New at DICE Database, Conferences, Books

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Publisher: Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich 2009

Language of publication English

Article number 11112009002000

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CESifo DICE Report 1/2009 (Spring)

Forum: Women, Culture and Economics (Raquel Fern�ndez) - 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: New at DICE Database, Conferences, Books

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Publisher: Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich 2009

Language of publication English

Article number 11112009001000

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