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The success of currency reforms to end great inflations : an empirical analysis of 34 high inflations

Bernholz, Peter (contributor); Kugler, Peter (contributor) - 2007

The estimation of an ordered probit model for currency reforms trying to end 31 hyperinflations and three big inflations of the 20th century shows that the introduction of an independent central bank and the adoption of a credibly fixed exchange rate are crucial for the success of a currency...

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The price revolution in the 16th century : empirical results from a structural vectorautoregression model

Bernholz, Peter (contributor); Kugler, Peter (contributor) - 2007

This paper provides empirical evidence in favor of the hypothesis that the secular price increase in the 16th century is mainly caused by money supply developments as the discovery of new mines in Latin America. First we review price developments for several European countries over the 16th...

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Knowledge and networks

Glückler, Johannes (ed.); Lazega, Emmanuel (ed.); … - Klaus Tschira Stiftung - 2017

for a long time: social network theory and the geography of knowledge. This book considers that relational thinking has … Li -- Studying Networks Geographically: World Political Regionalization in the United Nations General Assembly (1985 … Among Swedish Municipalities: Is Sweden a Small World?: Christopher Ansell, Martin Lundin, and Per Ola Öberg -- The …

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Time varying hierarchical archimedean copulae

Härdle, Wolfgang Karl; Okhrin, Ostap; Okhrin, Yarema - 2010

There is increasing demand for models of time-varying and non-Gaussian dependencies for mul- tivariate time-series. Available models suffer from the curse of dimensionality or restrictive assumptions on the parameters and the distribution. A promising class of models are the hierarchical...

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Testing the correlated random coefficient model

Heckman, James J.; Schmierer, Daniel; Urzua, Sergio - 2009

The recent literature on instrumental variables (IV) features models in which agents sort into treatment status on the basis of gains from treatment as well as on baseline-pretreatment levels. Components of the gains known to the agents and acted on by them may not be known by the observing...

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Estimating the technology of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation

Cunha, Flávio; Heckman, James J.; Schennach, Susanne M. - 2010

This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills. Skills are determined by parental environments and investments at different stages of childhood. We estimate the elasticity of substitution between investments in one period and...

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Estimating the technology of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation

Cunha, Flávio; Heckman, James J.; Schennach, Susanne M. - 2010

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Testing the correlated random coefficient model

Heckman, James J.; Schmierer, Daniel; Urzua, Sergio - 2010

The recent literature on instrumental variables (IV) features models in which agents sort into treatment status on the basis of gains from treatment as well as on baselinepretreatment levels. Components of the gains known to the agents and acted on by them may not be known by the observing...

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Essays on Portfolio- and Bank-Management

Graf, Ferdinand - 2011

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Heterogeneity in macroeconomics and its implications for monetary policy

Schnell, Fabian - 2015

Diese Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit den makroökonomischen Konsequenzen der Annahme heterogener Firmen. Die geldpolitischen Implikationen stehen dabei im Vordergrund. In den ersten beiden, theoretisch ausgerichteten Kapiteln liegt der Fokus auf der Tatsache, dass Firmen unterschiedlich...

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