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International Migration to Germany: Estimation of a Time-Series Model and Inference in Panel Cointegration
Brücker, Herbert; Siliverstovs, Boriss; Trübswetter, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003
In this paper we study the determinants of international migration to Germany, 1967-2000. The empirical literature on macro-economic migration functions usually explains migration flows by a set of explanatory variables such as the income differential, employment rates, and migrations stocks as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068948
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Hysteresis and Persistence in the Course of Unemployment: The EU and US Experience
Dreger, Christian; Reimers, Hans-Eggert - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
We investigate hysteresis and persistence behaviour in the course of unemployment in EU countries and US states by …. Hysteresis in EU unemployment is attributed to the idiosyncratic, but not to the common component. In contrast, idiosyncratic … components are stationary in the US. If hysteresis behaviour is also relevant here, it is more likely to arise in the common …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068810
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Does Government Ideology Matter in Monetary Policy?: A Panel Data Analysis for OECD Countries
Belke, Ansgar; Potrafke, Niklas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
This paper examines whether government ideology has influenced monetary policy in OECD countries. We use quarterly data in the 1980.1-2005.4 period and exclude EMU countries. Our Taylor-rule specification focuses on the interactions of a new time-variant index of central bank independence with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395418
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Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Firm Leverage
Baum, Christopher F.; Stephan, Andreas; Talavera, Oleksandr - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
This paper investigates the link between the optimal level of nonfinancial firms' leverage and macroeconomic uncertainty. We develop a structural model of a firm's value maximization problem that predicts that as macroeconomic un-certainty increases the firm will decrease its optimal level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963696
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Using Panel Data on Income Satisfaction to Estimate the Equivalence Scale Elasticity
Schwarze, Johannes - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2000
In this paper a new method to estimate the equivalence scale elasticity using individual panel data on income satisfaction will be developed. In contrast to other subjective approaches, the present one benefits from the fact that no direct cardinal individual welfare function has to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963911
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Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation around the World: Evidence from Panel Data
Léger, Andréanne - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
This article contributes to the literature on innovation and development by identifying the determinants of innovation, and the role of intellectual property rights, in industrialized and developing countries. Controlling for sample selection, I find that, in general, the level of intellectual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068675
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Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State?: Evidence from German Longitudinal Data on Life Satisfaction ; A Revised Version
Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre- and post-government income distribution at the regional level, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. Three different inequality measures are used. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068871
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Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State?: Evidence from German Longitudinal Data on Life Satisfaction
Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002
We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state increases individual well-being. We find that Germans are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068998
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Cross-Section Dependence and the Monetary Exchange Rate Model: A Panel Analysis
Beckmann, Joscha; Belke, Ansgar; Dobnik, Frauke - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
This paper tackles the issue of cross-section dependence for the monetary exchange rate model in the presence of unobserved common factors using panel data from 1973 until 2007 for 19 OECD countries. Applying a principal component analysis we distinguish between common factors and idiosyncratic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003457
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PanelWhiz - Efficient Data Extraction of Complex Panel Data Sets: An Example Using the German SOEP
Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Hahn, Markus H. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
This paper outlines a panel data retrieval program written for Stata/SE 10 or better, which allows easier accessing of complex panel data sets. Using a drop-down menu and mouse click system, the researcher selects variables from any and all available years of a panel study. The data is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764566