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Internet-Based Hedonic Indices of Rents and Prices for Flats: Example of Berlin
Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Mense, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
In this paper, we suggest to estimate the home rents and prices in German regions/cities using the data from Internet ads offering the housing for rent and sale. Given the richness of information contained in the ads, we are able to construct the quality-adjusted rent and price indices using the...
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Can Internet Ads Serve as an Indicator of Homeownership Rates?
Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Mense, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
In this paper, we propose an indicator of the homeownership rate based on Internet ads offering the housing for rent and sale. We constructed the HOR estimate using the number of ads in four different markets (flats for rent, flats for sale, houses for rent, and houses for sale). Our HOR...
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Self-Employment and Economic Performance: A Geographically Weighted Regression Approach for European Regions
Pijnenburg, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
The self-employment rate includes entrepreneurs out of opportunity and entrepreneurs out of necessity. While the effect of opportunity entrepreneurs on economic development should be positive, there should be no or a negative effect of necessity entrepreneurship. We use a geographically weighted...
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European Regional Convergence in a Human Capital Augmented Solow Model
Eckey, Hans-Friedrich; Dreger, Christian; Türck, Matthias - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
In this paper, the process of productivity convergence is investigated for the enlarged European Union using regional (NUTS-2) data. The Solow model extended by human capital is employed as a workhorse. Alternative strategies are proposed to control for spatial effects. All specifications...
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Measuring Regional Inequality by Internet Car Price Advertisements: Evidence for Germany
Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Siliverstovs, Boriss - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
We suggest to use Internet car sale price advertisements for measuring economic inequality between and within German regions. Our estimates of regional income levels and Gini indices based on advertisements are highly, positively correlated with the official figures. This implies that the...
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Incentive Effects of Fiscal Equalization: Has Russian Style Improved?
Freinkman, Lev; Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Thießen, Ulrich - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
The effects of inter-government fiscal arrangements on variation in regional economic growth are analyzed for Russia, a … distortions. We found no negative association between federal transfers and regional growth. Furthermore, there are no major … differences between donor and recipient regions in the way how inter-governmental fiscal arrangements influence regional growth …
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Are Geese Flying by Themselves inside China? An LSTR-SEM Approach to Income Convergence of Chinese Counties
Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Girardin, Eric - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
In this paper, we examine beta-convergence of real per-capita income of Chinese counties. We account for both the spatial dependences between counties and the possibility of different convergence regimes. The first feature is captured by the spatial error term, whereas the second one is modeled...
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Do Regions with Entrepreneurial Neighbors Perform Better?: A Spatial Econometric Approach for German Regions
Pijnenburg, Katharina; Kholodilin, Konstantin A. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
We use a neoclassical production function to analyze the effects of knowledge spillovers via entrepreneurship on economic performance of 337 German districts. To take the spatial dependence structure of the data into account, we estimate a spatial Durbin model. We highlight the importance of the...
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Does Quality Make a Difference?: Employment Effects of High- and Low-Quality Start-Ups
Fritsch, Michael; Schroeter, Alexandra - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
generate larger direct and overall growth effects than those in services. Moreover, new businesses in innovative manufacturing … growth is not statistically significant, which may be mainly due to their rather small share in all start-ups and because …
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Determinants of Trade with Solar Energy Technology Components: Evidence on the Porter Hypothesis?
Groba, Felix - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
Studies analyzing renewable energy market development usually investigate additional capacity or investment. Characteristics, roles and determinants of cross border trade with renewable energy system components remain blurred. Environmental regulation and renewable energy policies are important...
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