62 search hits
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Soil-borne gaseous C- and N-isotopic fluxes in a Bavarian spruce forest ecosystem
(2011)
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Katja Kothieringer
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Regionale Lehrerfortbildung im Programm der Bamberger
Universitätsschulen : Verschmelzung von Studium und Referendariat
(2011)
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Detlef Sembill
Claus Bauer
Ewald Blum
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Fund managers: Why the best might be the worst – On the evolutionary vigor of risk-seeking behavior
(2011)
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Björn-Christopher Witte
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Parliamentary Questions as Instruments of Substantive Representation: Visible Minorities in the UK House of Commons, 2005-10
(2011)
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Thomas Saalfeld
- Does the growing descriptive representation of minority-ethnic legislators in the British House of Commons have any implications for the substantive representation of minority-related issues in the UK Parliament? This study is based on a data set of over 16,000 parliamentary questions tabled by 50 British backbench Members of Parliament (MPs) in the 2005-2010 Parliament, including the 16 immigrant-origin MPs with a ‘visible-minority’ background. Based on a series of multivariate models, it is found that all British MPs sampled for this study – irrespective of their ethnic status – respond to electoral incentives arising from the socio-demographic composition of their constituencies: Minority and non-minority MPs alike ask more questions relating to minority concerns, if they represent constituencies with a high share of non-White residents. Controlling for that general effect, however, MPs with a visible-minority status do tend to ask significantly more questions about ethnic diversity and equality issues.
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A Seemingly Boring Election amidst Economic Turmoil
(2011)
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Thomas Saalfeld
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A Robust Model of the Convenience Yield in the Natural Gas Market
(2011)
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Thomas Volmer
- This study advances the research on the convenience yield of natural gas. Econometric models confirm that air temperature is an important explanatory variable in addition to storage levels. Furthermore, an extended linear model shows that one has to account for a changing cost of physical storage in the spirit of Brennan (1958). Besides this, an alternative regime-switching model for the convenience yield helps to put in perspective a prominent finding by Fama, and French (1987). That is, given binding capacity constraints for gas storage, the variance of the futures' basis will increase rather than decrease with the storage levels. Finally and most importantly, robustness tests demonstrate that the extended linear model produces the most viable forecasts and that these forecasts can help to amend the performance of reduced-form models for the gas spot price.
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Two indicators, one conclusion: on the public salience of foreign affairs in pre- and post-unification Germany
(2011)
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Harald Schoen
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Does ticket-splitting decrease the accuracy of recalled previous voting? Evidence from three German panel surveys.
(2011)
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Harald Schoen
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Merely a referendum on Chancellor Merkel? Parties, issues and candidates in the 2009 German federal election.
(2011)
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Harald Schoen
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Verschiedene Ebenen, verschiedene Wirkungen? Eine vergleichende Analyse von Wirkungen der Europa- und Bundestagswahlkampagnen 2009.
(2011)
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Harald Schoen
Rebecca Teusch
- Im Jahr 2009 erlebten die Deutschen zwei nationale Wahlkämpfe, einen zur Europawahl, einen zur Bundestagswahl. Beide scheinen den Geschmack der Bürger nicht allzu gut getroffen zu haben. Für ihre Kampagnen zur Europawahl mussten sich die Parteien zum Teil herbe Kritik gefallen lassen. So wurde die Plakatwerbung als „krampfhaft originell“ (Brössler/Höll 2009) kritisiert, bei der stellenweise nicht einmal einfachste Werberegeln beachtet worden wären (vgl. Wölk 2009). Insgesamt sollten sich die Parteien etwas Neues einfallen lassen (vgl. Spiegel-online 2009). Wenige Wochen später folgte der Bundestagswahlkampf, der allerdings auch nur wenige Bürger ansprach. In Bevölkerungsumfragen gaben viele an, sie fänden den Wahlkampf weder interessant noch spannend (vgl. Süddeutsche.de 2009). Akademische Beobachter teilten diesen Befund und deuteten ihn als eine Konsequenz des politischen Wettbewerbs unter den Bedingungen einer Großen Koalition (vgl. Korte 2009).