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[February 02, 2012]

You will find the latest news about EconStor, Open Access and Scholarly Communication in Economics in general in our new Blog.

[January 04, 2012]

The following series have been added to EconStor in December 2011:

[January 04, 2012]

Top Downloads in December 2011 (number of PDF downloads):

1.)
Bouza, Carlos; Juárez, Octaviano; Santiago, Agustín:
„Un estudio de las potencialidades del mercado para el consumo de agua purificada de la fuente de Azinyahualco“
(1068)
2.)
Yadav, Pradeep K.; Megginson, William L.; Chakrabarti, Rajesh:
„Corporate governance in India“
(934)
3.)
Bauer, Thomas K.:
„High Performance Workplace Practices and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Europe“
(761)
4.)
Auria, Laura; Moro, Rouslan A.:
„Support Vector Machines (SVM) as a technique for solvency analysis“
(587)
5.)
Frank, Björn; Herr, Annika; Haucap, Justus:
„In vino veritas: Theory and evidence on social drinking“
(520)

[December 05, 2011]

Top Downloads in November 2011 (number of PDF downloads):

1.)
Bouza, Carlos; Juárez, Octaviano; Santiago, Agustín:
„Un estudio de las potencialidades del mercado para el consumo de agua purificada de la fuente de Azinyahualco“
(2120)
2.)
Yadav, Pradeep K.; Megginson, William L.; Chakrabarti, Rajesh:
„Corporate governance in India“
(953)
3.)
Traben, Lioba; Ragnitz, Joachim; Müller, Ralf; Komar, Walter; Bergemann, Annette; Beer, Siegfried; Schmidt, Klaus-Dieter; Sander, Birgit; Gerling, Katja; Postlep, Rolf-Dieter; Alexander; Eickelpasch; Brenke, Karl:
„Gesamtwirtschaftliche und unternehmerische Anpassungsfortschritte in Ostdeutschland ; Neunzehnter Bericht“
(946)
4.)
Bauer, Thomas K.:
„High Performance Workplace Practices and Job Satisfaction : Evidence from Europe“
(936)
5.)
Schmidtchen, Dieter; Kirstein, Roland:
„Wie die "unsichtbare Hand" funktioniert: Gewinnmaximierung als Triebfeder der Effizienz. Ein "classroom-experiment"“
(657)

[December 05, 2011]

The following series have been added to EconStor in November 2011:

[November 25, 2011]

EconStor is now among the TOP 20 RePEc archives, climbing 13 places within
one year. See also our press release and the list of largest contributing archives at repec.org.

[November 02, 2011]

The following series have been added to EconStor in October 2011:

[November 02, 2011]

Top Downloads in October 2011 (number of PDF downloads):

1.)
Bouza, Carlos; Juárez, Octaviano; Santiago, Agustín:
„Un estudio de las potencialidades del mercado para el consumo de agua purificada de la fuente de Azinyahualco“
(1772)
2.)
Bauer, Thomas K.:
„High Performance Workplace Practices and Job Satisfaction : Evidence from Europe“
(837)
3.)
Yadav, Pradeep K.; Megginson, William L.; Chakrabarti, Rajesh:
„Corporate governance in India“
(559)
4.)
Gottschalk, Jan:
„An Introduction into the SVAR Methodology: Identification, Interpretation and Limitations of SVAR models“
(486)
5.)
Sánchez Aké, Oyuki; Muñoz, Ileana Lara; Leyva Morales, Carlos E.; Alvarado Yah, Samuel:
„Oferta, demanda, balanza comercial y competitividad del pescado de México en el mundo“
(419)

[October 10, 2011]

The following journals and series have been added to EconStor in September 2011:

[October 07, 2011]

Top Downloads in September 2011 (number of PDF downloads):

1.)
Bouza, Carlos; Juárez, Octaviano; Santiago, Agustín:
„Un estudio de las potencialidades del mercado para el consumo de agua purificada de la fuente de Azinyahualco“
(982)
2.)
Bauer, Thomas K.:
„High Performance Workplace Practices and Job Satisfaction : Evidence from Europe“
(433)
3.)
Gottschalk, Jan:
„An Introduction into the SVAR Methodology: Identification, Interpretation and Limitations of SVAR models“
(373)
4.)
Muck, Johannes; Haucap, Justus; Bräuninger, Michael:
„Was lesen und schätzen Ökonomen im Jahr 2011?“
(372)
5.)
Mueller, Gerrit; Plug, Erik:
„Estimating the Effect of Personality on Male-Female Earnings“
(351)

[September 16, 2011]

For the RePEc-Blog we have written an EconStor-Entry, which focuses on it's function as national RePEc-Input-Service for German Economics Research Institutions : "EconStor: A RePEc Archive for Research from Germany"..

[September 06, 2011]

Some papers which have been submitted to the Annual Congress 2011 of the German Economic Association in Frankfurt (Main) (“The order of the world economy: Lessons from the crisis”) are now available here. Many thanks to the German Economic Association and the authors for providing their papers.

[September 02, 2011]

The following journals and series have been added to EconStor in August 2011:

[September 02, 2011]

Top Downloads in August 2011 (number of PDF downloads):

1.)
Bouza, Carlos; Juárez, Octaviano; Santiago, Agustín:
„Un estudio de las potencialidades del mercado para el consumo de agua purificada de la fuente de Azinyahualco“
(483)
2.)
Gottschalk, Jan:
„An Introduction into the SVAR Methodology: Identification, Interpretation and Limitations of SVAR models“
(318)
3.)
Bauer, Thomas K.:
„High Performance Workplace Practices and Job Satisfaction : Evidence from Europe“
(304)
4.)
Mueller, Gerrit; Plug, Erik:
„Estimating the Effect of Personality on Male-Female Earnings“
(251)
5.)
Auria, Laura; Moro, Rouslan A.:
„Support Vector Machines (SVM) as a technique for solvency analysis“
(230)

[August 17, 2011]

EconStor is pleased to announce that the milestone of 30000 fulltext documents has been reached with the publication of A pluralistic approach to ecosystem services evaluation by Kerry Turner, CSERGE, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich.

[August 04, 2011]

The following series have been added to EconStor in July 2011:

[August 04, 2011]

Top Downloads in July 2011 (number of PDF downloads):

1.)
Mueller, Gerrit; Plug, Erik:
„Estimating the Effect of Personality on Male-Female Earnings“
(446)
2.)
Gottschalk, Jan:
„An Introduction into the SVAR Methodology: Identification, Interpretation and Limitations of SVAR models“
(348)
3.)
Bauer, Thomas K.:
„High Performance Workplace Practices and Job Satisfaction : Evidence from Europe“
(288)
4.)
Auria, Laura; Moro, Rouslan A.:
„Support Vector Machines (SVM) as a technique for solvency analysis“
(264)
5.)
Bouza, Carlos; Juárez, Octaviano; Santiago, Agustín:
„Un estudio de las potencialidades del mercado para el consumo de agua purificada de la fuente de Azinyahualco“
(237)

[July 11, 2011]

The following series have been added to EconStor in June 2011:

[July 08, 2011]

1.)
Gottschalk, Jan:
„An Introduction into the SVAR Methodology: Identification, Interpretation and Limitations of SVAR models“
(381)
2.)
Bouza, Carlos; Juárez, Octaviano; Santiago, Agustín:
„Un estudio de las potencialidades del mercado para el consumo de agua purificada de la fuente de Azinyahualco“
(333)
3.)
Bauer, Thomas K.:
„High Performance Workplace Practices and Job Satisfaction : Evidence from Europe“
(321)
4.)
Auria, Laura; Moro, Rouslan A.:
„Support Vector Machines (SVM) as a technique for solvency analysis“
(316)
5.)
LaFontaine, Paul A.; Heckman, James Joseph:
„The American high school graduation rate: trends and levels“
(285)

[June 14, 2011]

The following series have been added to EconStor in May 2011:

[June 10, 2011]

Top Downloads in May 2011 (number of PDF downloads):

1.)
Mueller, Gerrit; Plug, Erik:
„Estimating the Effect of Personality on Male-Female Earnings“
(450)
2.)
Gottschalk, Jan:
„An Introduction into the SVAR Methodology: Identification, Interpretation and Limitations of SVAR models“
(413)
3.)
Schmidtchen, Dieter; Kirstein, Roland:
„Wie die "unsichtbare Hand" funktioniert: Gewinnmaximierung als Triebfeder der Effizienz. Ein "classroom-experiment"“
(411)
4.)
Bauer, Thomas K.:
„High Performance Workplace Practices and Job Satisfaction : Evidence from Europe“
(402)
5.)
LaFontaine, Paul A.; Heckman, James J.:
„The American high school graduation rate: trends and levels“
(385)

[May 23, 2011]

The following series have been added to EconStor over the past weeks:

[May 10, 2011]

Top Downloads in April 2011 (number of PDF downloads):

1.)
Bauer, Thomas K.:
„High Performance Workplace Practices and Job Satisfaction : Evidence from Europe“
(473)
2.)
Gottschalk, Jan:
„An Introduction into the SVAR Methodology: Identification, Interpretation and Limitations of SVAR models“
(362)
3.)
MacDonald, Ronald :
„Concepts to Calculate Equilibrium Exchange Rates: An Overview“
(310)
4.)
Schmidtchen, Dieter; Kirstein, Roland:
„Wie die "unsichtbare Hand" funktioniert: Gewinnmaximierung als Triebfeder der Effizienz. Ein "classroom-experiment"“
(300)
5.)
Auria, Laura; Moro, Rouslan A.:
„Support Vector Machines (SVM) as a technique for solvency analysis“
(280)

[April 08, 2011]

Top Downloads in March 2011 (number of PDF downloads):

1.)
Schmidtchen, Dieter; Kirstein, Roland:
„Wie die "unsichtbare Hand" funktioniert: Gewinnmaximierung als Triebfeder der Effizienz. Ein "classroom-experiment"“
(460)
2.)
Bauer, Thomas K.:
„High Performance Workplace Practices and Job Satisfaction : Evidence from Europe“
(370)
3.)
Gottschalk, Jan:
„An Introduction into the SVAR Methodology: Identification, Interpretation and Limitations of SVAR models“
(354)
4.)
Auria, Laura; Moro, Rouslan A.:
„Support Vector Machines (SVM) as a technique for solvency analysis“
(326)
5.)
MacDonald, Ronald :
„Concepts to Calculate Equilibrium Exchange Rates: An Overview“
(298)

[March 07, 2011]

Top Downloads in February 2011 (number of PDF downloads):

1.)
Schmidtchen, Dieter; Kirstein, Roland:
„Wie die "unsichtbare Hand" funktioniert: Gewinnmaximierung als Triebfeder der Effizienz. Ein "classroom-experiment"“
(461)
2.)
Görg, Holger:
„Analysing foreign market entry: the choice between greenfield investment and acquisitions“
(378)
3.)
Gottschalk, Jan:
„An Introduction into the SVAR Methodology: Identification, Interpretation and Limitations of SVAR models“
(357)
4.)
MacDonald, Ronald :
„Concepts to Calculate Equilibrium Exchange Rates: An Overview“
(223)
5.)
Borak, Szymon; Härdle, Wolfgang; Weron, Rafal:
„Stable distributions“
(202)

[February 04, 2011]

Top Downloads in January 2011 (number of PDF downloads):

1.)
Schmidtchen, Dieter; Kirstein, Roland:
„Wie die "unsichtbare Hand" funktioniert: Gewinnmaximierung als Triebfeder der Effizienz. Ein "classroom-experiment"“
(469)
2.)
Görg, Holger:
„Analysing foreign market entry: the choice between greenfield investment and acquisitions“
(352)
3.)
Jürges, Hendrik:
„Health Insurance Status and Physician-Induced Demand for Medical Services in Germany: New Evidence from Combined District and Individual Level Data“
(328)
4.)
Wolf, Cornelia; Körnert, Jan:
„Theoretisch-konzeptionelle Grundlagen zur Balanced Scorecard“
(293)
5.)
Gottschalk, Jan:
„An Introduction into the SVAR Methodology: Identification, Interpretation and Limitations of SVAR models“
(276)

[January 11, 2011]

EconStor is pleased to announce that the milestone of 25,000 pdf full text documents has been passed with the publication of Katinka Barysch, Friedrich Heinemann and Max Steiger (1997):  Bond markets in advanced transition: A synopsis of the Visegrád bond markets, Centre of European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim.

In addition, there are currently 159 working paper series covered by EconStor. 60 of these are integrated into the RePEc database. Download figures have developed particularly well. In the course of 2010 we have registered 728,652 downloads of fulltext documents from EconStor.

Great thanks to all our authors, contributors and partners.

[January 04, 2011]

The German Initiative for Network Information (DINI) has granted its DINI Certificate 2010 for Document and Publication Servers to EconStor. According to DINI's experts "EconStor is a well-featured service. The website offers fast access to any information needed. All the requirements requested by DINI have been fulfilled."

[January 03, 2011]

Top Downloads in December 2010 (number of PDF downloads):

1.)
Spinanger, Dean; Heinrich, Ralph P.; Eckel, Carsten; Schäfer, Clarissa; Schrader, Klaus; Lücke, Matthias; Laaser, Claus-Friedrich; Koop, Michael J.; Hiemenz, Ulrich; Buch, Claudia M.:
„Die wirtschaftliche Lage Rußlands: Systemtransformation auf dem Rückzug? Zweiter Bericht“
(408)
2.)
Wezel, Torsten :
„Determinants of German Foreign Direct Investment in Latin American and Asian Emerging Markets in the 1990s“
(407)
3.)
Kirstein, Roland; Schmidtchen, Dieter:
„Wie die "unsichtbare Hand" funktioniert: Gewinnmaximierung als Triebfeder der Effizienz; ein "classroom-experiment"“
(336)
4.)
Mueller, Gerrit; Plug, Erik:
„Estimating the Effect of Personality on Male-Female Earnings“
(326)
5.)
Gottschalk, Jan:
„An Introduction into the SVAR Methodology: Identification, Interpretation and Limitations of SVAR models“
(312)

[December 03, 2010]

The following series have been added to EconStor in November 2010:

[December 02, 2010]

Top Downloads in November 2010 (number of PDF downloads):

1.)
Pütz, Alexander; Kempf, Alexander; Cici, Gjergji:
„Caught in the act: How hedge funds manipulate their equity positions“
(521)
2.)
Mueller, Gerrit; Plug, Erik:
„Estimating the Effect of Personality on Male-Female Earnings“
(490)
3.)
Kirstein, Roland; Schmidtchen, Dieter:
„Wie die "unsichtbare Hand" funktioniert: Gewinnmaximierung als Triebfeder der Effizienz; ein "classroom-experiment"“
(474)
4.)
Görg, Holger:
„Analysing foreign market entry : the choice between greenfield investment and acquisitions“
(345)
5.)
Kempf, Alexander; Bühler, Wolfgang:
„DAX Index Futures: Mispricing and Arbitrage in German Markets“
(319)

[November 09, 2010]

Due to maintenance work on Thursday the 11th of November 2010, the EconStor server will not be accessible from the net at all times on that day.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

[November 03, 2010]

Both series from "Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)" from the University of Düsseldorf have been added to EconStor and RePEc: 'Discussion Papers' and 'Ordnungspolitische Perspektiven'

[November 01, 2010]

Top Downloads in October 2010 (number of PDF downloads):

1.)
Mueller, Gerrit; Plug, Erik:
„Estimating the Effect of Personality on Male-Female Earnings“
(3927)
2.)
Zaghini, Andrea; Lamartina, Serena:
„Increasing public expenditures: Wagner's law in OECD countries“
(2176)
3.)
Porath, Daniel ; Kolari, James W. ; Kool, Clemens J. M. ; Heid, Frank ; Bos, Jaap W. B. ; Koetter, Michael :
„Accounting for distress in bank mergers“
(837)
4.)
Pencavel, John; Khor, Niny:
„Income mobility of individuals in China and the United States“
(535)
5.)
Kirstein, Roland; Schmidtchen, Dieter:
„Wie die "unsichtbare Hand" funktioniert: Gewinnmaximierung als Triebfeder der Effizienz; ein "classroom-experiment"“
(447)

[October 06, 2010]

EconStor has been added to the list of special RePEc input services and is from now on national data provider for German research institutions wishing to participate newly in the RePEc database, see: http://input.repec.org/

[October 01, 2010]

Top Downloads in September 2010 (number of PDF downloads):

1.)
Mueller, Gerrit; Plug, Erik:
„Estimating the Effect of Personality on Male-Female Earnings“
(3273)
2.)
Wagner, Joachim; Fryges, Helmut:
„Exports and profitability: first evidence for German manufacturing firms“
(664)
3.)
Guimaraes, Juliana; Portugal, Pedro; Machado, José A. F.:
„US unemployment duration: has long become longer or short become shorter?“
(432)
4.)
Kirstein, Roland; Schmidtchen, Dieter:
„Wie die "unsichtbare Hand" funktioniert: Gewinnmaximierung als Triebfeder der Effizienz; ein "classroom-experiment"“
(348)
5.)
Winkler, Adalbert; Vogel, Ursula:
„Foreign banks and financial stability in emerging markets: Evidence from the global financial crisis“
(293)

[August 23, 2010]

EconStor, now in the new ZBW design!
Along with the new design we have added some new features to the EconStor. On the EconStor homepage you do now find the top five of the most downloaded documents of the last month. Additionaly you find the downloadstatistics of each PDF on the viewpage of the corresponding item.