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Cross-country heterogeneity and endogeneity bias in life satisfaction estimations - macro- and micro-level evidence for advanced, developing and transition countries
Krenz, Astrid - 2013
The past literature found evidence for the presence of endogeneity issues due to individuals' heterogeneity and omitted time-varying variables in the relationship between income and life satisfaction on the micro-level for the UK (Powdthavee (2010)). The aim of the present contribution is to put...
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Services sectors' concentration : the European Union, Greece, and the New Economic Geography
Krenz, Astrid - 2013
The aim of this article is to investigate services sectors' concentration in the European Union based on employment data and to disentangle the sector-specific developments and influential factors over time. We find that only the financial intermediation, retail trade and water transport sectors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009744592
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Modeling services sectors' agglomeration within a new economic geography model
Krenz, Astrid - 2012
This study investigates whether services sectors’ agglomeration can be explained within a common New Economic Geography model by Krugman and Venables (1996). Special feature of this modeling is to account for the lower importance of intermediate goods received for the services sector, a fact...
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A panel co-integration analysis of industrial and services sectors' agglomeration in the European Union
Krenz, Astrid - 2012
Geography in explaining industrial and services sectors' agglomeration in the European Union. Therefore, new dynamic panel data … estimation techniques will be employed. Static panel data analysis reveals that assumptions of New Trade Theory and New Economic … Geography can explain industrial concentration in the EU best. Results from dynamic panel OLS show that intermediate goods …
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Political institutions and trade-evidence for the long-run relationship and causality
Krenz, Astrid - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223099
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Agglomeration of knowledge : a regional economic analysis for the German economy
Krenz, Astrid - 2014
We investigate the effects of job-specific knowledge for individual labor earnings of workers in the German economy. The results indicate a positive effect for earnings stemming in particular from high-knowledge in the areas of sales and marketing, computers and electronics, mathematics, biology...
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Do political institutions influence international trade? : measurement of institutions and the Long-Run effects
Krenz, Astrid - 2016
examine the long-run effects of the political institutional framework on trade for a panel of 87 countries for the period from … 1990 to 2007. We employ recent panel econometric methods for testing and estimating in the presence of non …-stationarity, investigate panel causality and use methods that are robust to slope heterogeneity. Our results imply that an improved political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436785
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Agglomeration of knowledge in the German regional economy
Krenz, Astrid - 2016
economy. Our analysis takes individual-level data from the German socioeconomic panel (GSOEP) and combines them with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436802
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What drives the location choice of new manufacturing plants in Germany?
Krenz, Astrid - 2019
About 30 years after German reunification a persistent gap in different firm performance measures exists between East and West Germany. In this paper I focus on the differences in new German manufacturing plants' location choices across the German district-free cities and districts and...
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Firm structure and the location decision of German manufacturing firms : evidence from official firm-level data
Krenz, Astrid - 2016
This paper uses a comprehensive, official firm-level dataset for German manufacturing firms to investigate the location decision of new firm activity in the German regional economy, differentiated by firm structure. The rich regional dimension of this dataset is investigated for the first time...
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