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Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel. Effects of Religiosity , Ethnicity, and War

Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Romanov, Dmitri; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for Israeli citizens of Jewish and Arab descent. Our data set is the Israeli Social Survey (2006). We are especially interested in the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and...

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The Use of Spatial Filtering Techniques: The Spatial and Space-time Structure of German Unemployment Data

Patuelli, Roberto; Griffith, Daniel A.; Tiefelsdorf, Michael - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

Socio-economic interrelationships among regions can be measured in terms of economic flows, migration, or physical geographically-based measures, such as distance or length of shared areal unit boundaries. In general, proximity and openness tend to favour a similar economic performance among...

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Immigration and Innovation in European Regions

Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

The concentration of people with diverse socio-cultural backgrounds in particular geographic areas may boost the creation of new ideas, knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. In this paper we measure the impact of the size, skills, and diversity of immigration on the...

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The Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities in Italy

Dominicis, Laura de; Arbia, Giuseppe; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

Existing indices measuring the spatial distribution of economic activity such as the Krugman Specialisation Index, the Hirschmann-Herfindahl index and the Ellison-Glaeser index typically do not take into account the spatial structure of the data. In this paper, we first consider traditional...

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Misspecification in Linear Spatial Regression Models

Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

Spatial effects are endemic in models based on spatially referenced data. The increased awareness of the relevance of spatial interactions, spatial externalities and networking effects among actors, evoked the area of spatial econometrics. Spatial econometrics focuses on the specification and...

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Geographical Distribution of Unemployment: An Analysis of Provincial Differences in Italy

Cracolici, Maria Francesca; Cuffaro, Miranda; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

Unemployment rates appear to vary widely at a subregional (e.g., local or provincial) level. Using spatial econometric models for spatial autocorrelation, this paper focuses attention on the spatial structure of regional unemployment disparities of Italian provinces. On the basis of findings...

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Risk Diversification by European Financial Conglomerates

Slijkerman, Jan Frederik; Schoenmaker, Dirk; Vries, … - Tinbergen Institute

We study the dependence between the downside risk of European banks and insurers. Since the downside risk of banks and insurers differs, an interesting question from a supervisory point of view is the risk reduction that derives from diversification within large banks and financial...

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Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Fiscal Policies on Long-Run Growth

Nijkamp, Peter; Jacques Poot, Victoria - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

The issue of whether the public sector enhances or retards long-run economic growth has been debated passionately in recent years. In this paper we use meta-analysis to shed light on the issue. A sample of 93 published studies, yielding 123 meta-observations, is used to examine the robustness of...

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Asset Market Linkages in Crisis Periods

Hartmann, P.; Straetmans, S.; Vries, C.G. de - Tinbergen Institute - 2001

We characterize asset return linkages during periods of stress by an extremal dependence measure. Contrary to correlation analysis, this nonparametric measure is not predisposed toward the normal distribution and can allow for nonlinear relationships. Our estimates for the G-5 countries suggest...

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The Bicausal Relation between Religion and Income

Bettendorf, Leon; Dijkgraaf, Elbert - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

In this paper the relation between religion and income is investigated using a micro-dataset for the Netherlands …. Religiosity is measured by religious membership and by participation. Instead of estimating separately a religion and an income … approach, both religious measures are found to decrease significantly income and income is found to affect negatively religion …

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