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Simply a Matter of Luck & Looks? Predicting Elections when Both the World Economy and the Psychology of Faces Count

Garretsen, Harry; Stoker, Janka I.; Alessie, Rob; … - CESifo - 2014

Economic research shows that candidates have a higher chance of getting (re-)elected when they have the luck that the world economy does well even though this is beyond their control and unrelated to their competence. Psychological research demonstrates that candidates increase their chances if...

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Input Demand and the Short- and Long-Run Employment Thresholds. An Empirical Analysis for the German Manufacturing Sector

Flaig, Gebhard; Rottmann, Horst - CESifo - 2000

continuous rise in labour productivity. It is related to the Okun coefficient which describes the relationship between the …

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Asset Ownership and Foreign-Market Entry

Raff, Horst; Ryan, Michael; Stähler, Frank - CESifo - 2006

This paper examines the link between a firm’s ownership of productive assets and its choice of foreign-market entry strategy. We find that, controlling for industry- and country-specific characteristics, the most productive firms (i.e., those owning the most assets) will enter through...

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International Outsourcing and the Supply Side Productivity Determinants

Grover, Arti - CESifo - 2007

, rent, energy consumption cannot appropriately determine a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) firm’s productivity. Academic …

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Real Exchange Rates in Small Open OECD and Transition Economies: Comparing Apples with Oranges?

Egert, Balazs; Lommatzsch, Kirsten; Lahrèche-Révil, Amina - CESifo - 2007

We find that productivity gains in tradables cause an appreciation of the real exchange rate via both tradable and …

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Real Wage Chronologies

Christofides, Louis; Peng, Amy Chen - CESifo - 2007

explore the influence of productivity growth, the industrial relations record of the pair, the influence of industry and …

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What Do We Know about Recent Exchange Rate Models? In-Sample Fit and Out-of-Sample Performance Evaluated

Cheung, Yin-Wong; Chinn, Menzie D.; Pascual, Antonio I. … - CESifo - 2003

Previous assessments of nominal exchange rate determination have focused upon a narrow set of models typically of the 1970’s vintage, including monetary and portfolio balance models. In this paper we re-assess the in-sample fit and out-of-sample prediction of a wider set of models that have...

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Intra- and Inter-Industry Productivity Spillovers in OECD Manufacturing: A Spatial Econometric Perspective

Badinger, Harald; Egger, Peter - CESifo - 2008

We adopt a spatial econometric approach to estimate intra- and inter-industry productivity spillovers in total factor … productivity transmitted through input-output relations in a sample of 13 OECD countries and 15 manufacturing industries. Both R …

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Maskus, Keith E.; Nishioka, Shuichiro - CESifo - 2008

resuscitate HOV by introducing a simple Hicks-neutral (HN) factor-productivity adjustment, an approach that was heavily criticized …. In this paper, we re-examine the productivity question by estimating factor-specific productivities from the individual …-augmenting technological differences. In particular, the factor-productivity adjustment works well for developed members of the OECD. Further …

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Employment Protection and the Market for Innovations

Bastgen, Andreas; Holzner, Christian - CESifo - 2015

in order to restore their productivity. To do so we develop an equilibrium matching model with an imperfect labor and … estimated negative impact of wrongful dismissal laws in the US on productivity and the positive effect on the number of …

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