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Measuring the Extent of European State Aid Control : An Econometric Analysis of the European Commission Decisions

Brouwer, Erik; Ozbugday, F.C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011

This paper provides an analysis of the European Commission (EC) decisions on state aid control using data on 550 state aid cases approved by the EC between 1998 and 2009. More specifically, we measure the determinants of the duration of state aid, total budget of state aid and daily budget of...

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Heterogeneity in Wage Setting Behavior in a New-Keynesian Model

Eijffinger, Sylvester; Uras, Burak R.; Grajales Olarte, A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2015

In this paper we estimate a New-Keynesian DSGE model with heterogeneity in price and wage setting behavior. In a recent …) framework by incorporating heterogeneity in nominal wage setting behavior among households. We solve this DSGE model and … heterogeneity in wage rigidity, such as the persistence in price and the wage inflation, which a standard New Keynesian model with …

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Environmental Kuznets Curves for CO2 : Heterogeneity Versus Homogeneity

Melenberg, Bertrand; Vollebergh, H.R.J.; Dijkgraaf, E. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005

relatively homogeneous sample, we find that the inverted-U-shaped curve is quite sensitive to the degree of heterogeneity … allowing for enough heterogeneity is essential to prevent spurious correlation from reduced-form panel estimations …

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Heterogeneous Treatment Effects : Instrumental Variables Without Monotonicity?

Klein, Tobias J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2008

A fundamental identification problem in program evaluation arises when idiosyncratic gains from participation and the treatment decision depend on each other. Imbens and Angrist (1994) were the first to exploit a monotonicity condition in order to identify a local average treatment effect...

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On Heterogeneous Covert Networks

Borm, Peter; Lindelauf, R.; Hamers, H.J.M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2008

Covert organizations are constantly faced with a tradeoff between secrecy and operational efficiency. Lindelauf, Borm and Hamers (2008) developed a theoretical framework to deter- mine optimal homogeneous networks taking the above mentioned considerations explicitly into account. In this paper...

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Voting on Punishment Systems Within a Heterogeneous Group

Noussair, Charles; Tan, F. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2009

We consider a voluntary contributions game, in which players may punish others after contributions are made and observed. The productivity of contributions, as captured in the marginal-per-capita return, differs among individuals, so that there are two types: high and low productivity. Every two...

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Accounting for Heterogeneous Returns in Sequential Schooling Decisions

Zamarro, G. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

.A test for heterogeneity in returns from sequential schooling decisions is developed and expressions for Marginal Treatment …

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