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Banks and Innovation: Microeconometric Evidence on Italian Firms

Benfratello, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; Sembenelli, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In this paper we investigate the effect of local banking development on firms’ innovative activities, using a rich data set on innovation for a large number of Italian firms over the 1990’s. There is evidence that banking development affects the probability of process innovation,...

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Pregibit: A Family of Discrete Choice Models

Vijverberg, Chu-Ping C.; Vijverberg, Wim P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

The pregibit discrete choice model is built on a distribution that allows symmetry or asymmetry and thick tails, thin tails or no tails. Thus the model is much richer than the traditional models that are typically used to study behavior that generates discrete choice outcomes. Pregibit nests...

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Financial Markets, Banks' Cost of Funding, and Firms' Decisions: Lessons from Two Crises

Balduzzi, Pierluigi; Brancati, Emanuele; Schiantarelli, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We test whether financial fluctuations affect firms' decisions, through their impact on banks' cost of funding. We …-2012 sovereign debt crisis. Using newly available data linking over 3,000, mostly privately-held, non-financial firms to their bank(s …), we find that increases in Italian banks' CDS spreads and decreases in their equity valuations lead younger and smaller …

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The (Hidden) Financial Flows of Terrorist and Organized Crime Organizations: A Literature Review and Some Preliminary Empirical Results

Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

The financial means of international terror and organized crime organizations are analysed. First, some short remarks about the organization of international terror organizations are made. Second and in a much more detailed way a literature review is provided about the financing of terrorist and...

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A Balancing Act at Times of Austerity: Matching the Supply and Demand for Skills in the Greek Labour Market

Pouliakas, Konstantinos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper provides an evidence-based assessment of the current situation prevailing in the Greek market for skills and jobs. The synthesis of available skills intelligence for Greece, the country most severely affected by the global economic crisis of 2008, is crucial as it is currently faced...

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Steady-State Labor Supply Elasticities: A Survey

Bargain, Olivier; Peichl, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Previous reviews of static labor supply estimations concentrate mainly on the evidence from the 1980s and 1990s, Anglo-Saxon countries and early generations of labor supply modeling. This paper provides a fresh characterization of steady-state labor supply elasticities for Western Europe and the...

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Structural Labor Supply Models and Wage Exogeneity

Loeffler, Max; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

There is still considerable dispute about the magnitude of labor supply elasticities. While differences in micro and macro estimates are recently attributed to frictions and adjustment costs, we show that relatively low labor supply elasticities derived from microeconometric models can also be...

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Policy Discontinuity and Duration Outcomes

den Berg, Gerard J. van; Bozio, Antoine; Costa Dias, Monica - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Causal effects of a policy change on hazard rates of a duration outcome variable are not identified from a comparison of spells before and after the policy change, if there is unobserved heterogeneity in the effects and no model structure is imposed. We develop a discontinuity approach that...

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Tax and Transfer Policies and the Female Labor Supply in the EU

Kaliskova, Klara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This study contributes to the female labor supply responsiveness literature by measuring the effect of tax-benefit policies on female labor supply based on a broad sample of 26 European countries in 2005-2010. The tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD is used to calculate a measure of work...

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Bayesian Procedures as a Numerical Tool for the Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models

Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Uhlendorff, Arne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Dynamic discrete choice models usually require a general specification of unobserved heterogeneity. In this paper, we apply Bayesian procedures as a numerical tool for the estimation of a female labor supply model based on a sample size which is typical for common household panels. We provide...

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