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Incentive Effects of Fiscal Equalization: Has Russian Style Improved?
Freinkman, Lev; Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Thießen, Ulrich - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
The effects of inter-government fiscal arrangements on variation in regional economic growth are analyzed for Russia, a country with large cross-regional differences and considerable fiscal redistribution. Moreover, fiscal reforms implemented in the first half of 2000s, which followed to some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068649
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Internet-Based Hedonic Indices of Rents and Prices for Flats: Example of Berlin
Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Mense, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
In this paper, we suggest to estimate the home rents and prices in German regions/cities using the data from Internet ads offering the housing for rent and sale. Given the richness of information contained in the ads, we are able to construct the quality-adjusted rent and price indices using the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651335
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Can Internet Ads Serve as an Indicator of Homeownership Rates?
Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Mense, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
In this paper, we propose an indicator of the homeownership rate based on Internet ads offering the housing for rent and sale. We constructed the HOR estimate using the number of ads in four different markets (flats for rent, flats for sale, houses for rent, and houses for sale). Our HOR...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360168
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Measuring Regional Inequality by Internet Car Price Advertisements: Evidence for Germany
Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Siliverstovs, Boriss - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
We suggest to use Internet car sale price advertisements for measuring economic inequality between and within German regions. Our estimates of regional income levels and Gini indices based on advertisements are highly, positively correlated with the official figures. This implies that the...
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Are Geese Flying by Themselves inside China? An LSTR-SEM Approach to Income Convergence of Chinese Counties
Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Girardin, Eric - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
In this paper, we examine beta-convergence of real per-capita income of Chinese counties. We account for both the … spatial dependences between counties and the possibility of different convergence regimes. The first feature is captured by … model the estimated convergence rate is 0.8% for unconditional regression and 1.7% for condtional regression, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021613
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Do Regions with Entrepreneurial Neighbors Perform Better?: A Spatial Econometric Approach for German Regions
Pijnenburg, Katharina; Kholodilin, Konstantin A. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
We use a neoclassical production function to analyze the effects of knowledge spillovers via entrepreneurship on economic performance of 337 German districts. To take the spatial dependence structure of the data into account, we estimate a spatial Durbin model. We highlight the importance of the...
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