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Digit Ratio Measurement Guide
Homepage, Levent Neyse; Brañas-Garza, Pablo - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
Literature on Digit Ratio is rapidly growing in Economics. Quite surprisingly we observe that there is no consensus about how to make an accurate measurement in such a delicate task. Along this brief document we offer some concise guidance of how to scan the hands using digital scanners and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886933
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On the size of sheepskin effects: A meta-analysis
Rodríguez, Mora; James, Jhon; Muro, Juan - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015
The authors use information gathered from 122 studies on the effects of high school diplomas on wages in different countries worldwide to carry out a meta-analysis that shows high school diplomas have a statistically significant effect on wages of nearly 8 percent. This effect varies whether the...
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Service Trade Liberalization as a Handmaiden of Competitiveness in Manufacturing: An Industrialized or Developing Country Issue?
Langhammer, Rolf J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006
intermediate services against market entry of new suppliers. By scanning the empirical literature on effective rates of protection … important intermediate services like banking and telecom and thus these industries can be instrumental to help downstream … services will further rise due to various EU-policy rooted factors. As a result, protection rates of services in individual EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755146
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Assessing the Effects of the Terrorist Attacks on the U.S. Economy
Strauß, Hubert - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2001
combined with economic reasoning (on the non storability of services, the role of air transports and on the complementarity … between services). As to the indirect effects, I assume that the downturn in sentiment will be severe but short-lived. Under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818792
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Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce: How Services Facilitate Firms' International Sourcing
Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of … international sourcing of materials depends on a firm's productivity and the availability of local services. These predictions are … materials to sales. In addition, we find evidence that services grease the wheels of international commerce: A greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543244
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Assessing EU Concessions for Service Trade Liberalization in the Doha Round. What Frequency Indices Suggest
Langhammer, Rolf J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2003
While the EU is a customs union in merchandise trade (goods), it has not yet reached this stage of integration in service trade. How far the EU is from a customs union in service trade is very difficult to assess because of the nonquantitative nature of trade restrictions in this sector. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566214
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Greasing the wheels of international commerce: how services facilitate firms' international sourcing
Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of … international sourcing of materials depends on a firm's productivity and the availability of local services. These predictions are … materials to sales. In addition, we find evidence that services grease the wheels of international commerce: A greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010982444