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The Political Economy of Financial Systems : Evidence from Suffrage Reforms in the Last Two Centuries

Degryse, Hans; Lambert, T.; Schwienbacher, A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2013

Abstract: Initially, voting rights were limited to wealthy elites providing political support for stock markets. The franchise expansion induces the median voter to provide political support for banking development as this new electorate has lower financial holdings and benefits less from the...

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Separations at the Firm Level

van Ours, Jan; Gautier, P.A.; van den Berg, G.; Ridder, G. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1999

-off policy of firms can explain the relatively high level of unemployment amongst lower educated workers and the relatively … strong sensitivity of their unemployment rate to the business cycle. We find that lay-off rates decrease with education but … with a higher level of education can not explain the stronger cyclicality of the unemployment rate for lower educated …

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Central Bank Reform, Liberalization and Inflation in Transition Economies : An International Perspective

Cukierman, A.; Miller, G.P.; Neyapti, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2000

This paper develops extensive new data on the legal independence of new central banks in 26 former socialist economies (FSE).This data is constructed using the codification system for measuring legal independence developed in Cukierman, Webb and Neyapti (1992) and in chapter 19 of Cukierman...

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Economic Freedom and Life Satisfaction : A Cross Country Analysis

Graafland, Johan; Compen, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2012

Abstract: This paper estimates the relationship between various sub-indicators of economic freedom and life satisfaction for 122 countries. The estimation results show that life satisfaction is positively related to the quality of the legal system and protection of property rights. For poor...

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Social Capital, Institutions and Trust

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

This paper analyzes the relations between social capital, institutions and trust.These concepts are full of ambiguity and confusion.This paper attempts to dissolve some of the confusion, by distinguishing trust and control, and analyzing institutional and relational conditions of trust.It...

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Estimating Dynamic Models from Repeated Cross-Sections

Verbeek, M.J.C.M.; Vella, F. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2000

A major attraction of panel data is the ability to estimate dynamic models on an individual level. Moffitt (1993) and Collado (1998) have argued that such models can also be identified from repeated cross-section data. In this paper we reconsider this issue. We review the identification...

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Two-step estimation of simultaneous equation panel data models with censored endogenous variables

Vella, F.; Verbeek, M.J.C.M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1994

This paper presents some two-step estimators for a wide range of parametric panel data models with censored endogenous variables and sample selection bias. Our approach is to derive estimates of the unobserved heterogeneity responsible for the endogeneity/selection bias to include as additional...

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Dynamic Panel Data Models Featuring Endogenous Interaction and Spatially Correlated Errors

Jacobs, J.P.A.M.; Ligthart, J.E.; Vrijburg, H. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2009

We extend the three-step generalized methods of moments (GMM) approach of Kapoor, Kelejian, and Prucha (2007), which corrects for spatially correlated errors in static panel data models, by introducing a spatial lag and a one-period lag of the dependent variable as additional explanatory...

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Separating Moral Hazard from Adverse Selection in Automobile Insurance : Longitudinal Evidence from France

Dionne, G.; Michaud, P.C.; Dahchour, M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2004

This paper uses longitudinal data to perform tests of asymmetric information in the French automobile insurance market for the 1995-1997 period.This market is characterized by the presence of a regulated experience-rating scheme (bonusmalus).We demonstrate that the result of the test depends...

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One-Step Robust Estimation of Fixed-Effects Panel Data Models

Cizek, Pavel; Aquaro, M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2010

The panel-data regression models are frequently applied to micro-level data, which often suffer from data contamination, erroneous observations, or unobserved heterogeneity. Despite the adverse effects of outliers on classical estimation methods, there are only a few robust estimation methods...

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