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African Leaders: Their Education Abroad and FDI Flows
Constant, Amelie; Tien, Bienvenue N. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
essential for a country's economic growth. Our hypothesis is that foreign-educated leaders attract more FDI to their country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765848
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Local Banking and Local Economic Growth in Italy: Some Panel Evidence
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Colli, Stefano Di; Salvo, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
This paper provides new evidence on the contribution of local banking to local economic growth (i.e. at county level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896183
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Intertemporal Labor Supply Effects of Tax Reforms
Haan, Peter - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
In the year 2000, the German government passed the most ambitious tax reform in post-war German history aiming at a significant tax relief for households. One central aim of this tax reform was to improve work incentives and, thereby, foster employment. In this paper, I estimate an intertemporal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963732
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Back on Track?: Savings Puzzles in EU-Accession Countries
Schrooten, Mechthild; Stephan, Sabine - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002
. Central findings: saving is highly persistent; income, growth and institutional reforms cause saving to increase, whereas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068851
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State Dependence and Female Labor Supply in Germany: The Extensive and the Intensive Margin
Haan, Peter - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005
In this paper I develop an intertemporal discrete choice model of labor supply. The framework incorporates the nonlinearities in the household budget set and accounts for state dependence in labor supply. Based on panel data for Germany (SOEP), I estimate this model using a dynamic conditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068907
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Outward FDI and Domestic Investment
Herzer, Dierk; Schrooten, Mechthild - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
This paper examines the impact of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) on domestic investment by applying co-integration techniques to macroeconomic time series data for the United Sates and Germany. We show that the two countries differ: In the case of the US, OFDI has positive long-run...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963610
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Spillovers from Foreign Firms through Worker Mobility: An Empirical Investigation
Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from multinationals this literature treats the channels through which these spillover effects work as a black box. The innovation of this paper is to investigate whether spillovers occur via worker mobility. We use data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068692
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Unemployment and Productivity Growth: An Empirical Analysis within the Augmented Solow Model
Bräuninger, Michael; Pannenberg, Markus - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2000
Does a country's level of unemployment have an impact on the long-run growth rate? Incorporating unemployment into a … generalised Solow-type growth model, yields some answers. In the traditional Solow model, unemployment has no long-run influence … on the growth rate and the level of productivity. The long-run level of productivity is reduced if higher unemployment …
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An Early Warning System to Predict the House Price Bubbles
Dreger, Christian; Kholodilin, Konstantin A. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
In this paper, we construct the country-specific chronologies of the house price bubbles for 12 OECD countries over the period 1969:Q1- 2010:Q2. These chronologies are obtained using a combination of a fundamental and a filter approaches. The resulting speculative bubble chronology is the one...
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Quoted Spreads and Trade Imbalance Dynamics in the European Treasury Bond Market
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Girardi, Alessandro; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
Using high-frequency transaction data for the three largest European markets (France, Germany and Italy), this paper documents the existence of an asymmetric relationship between market liquidity and trading imbalances: when quoted spreads rise (fall) and liquidity falls (increases) buy (sell)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008742946