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German works councils and productivity : first evidence from a nonparametric test

Wagner, Joachim - In: Applied economics letters 15 (2008) 7/9, pp. 727-730

This article presents the first nonparametric test whether German works councils go hand-in-hand with higher labour productivity or not. It distinguishes between establishments that are covered by collective bargaining or not. Results from a Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for first-order stochastic...

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Exports, foreign direct investment, and productivity : evidence from German level data

Wagner, Joachim - In: Applied economics letters 13 (2006) 6, pp. 347-349

This study presents the first empirical test with German establishment level data of a hypothesis derived by Helpman et al. (2004) in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to serve foreign markets either through exports of foreign direct investment: only the more productive...

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Dynamic Panel Data Approach to the Forecasting of the GDP of German Länder

Cholodilin, Konstantin Arkadʹevič (contributor); … - 2007

In this paper we forecast the annual growth rates of the real GDP for each of the 16 German Länder (States) simultaneously. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt in the literature that addresses this question for all German Länder as most of the studies try to forecast the...

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What affects the remittances of Turkish workers : Turkish or German output?

Akkoyunlu, Sule (contributor); … - 2006

In this paper we examine the interactions between the remittances of the Turkish workers in Germany and the output both in Turkey and in Germany. In our analysis we use the new data set provided by the German monetary authorities, which was never before employed in the literature and which we...

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Forecasting the prices and rents for flats in large German cities

Cholodilin, Konstantin Arkadʹevič; Mense, Andreas - 2012

In this paper, we make multi-step forecasts of the monthly growth rates of the prices and rents for flats in 26 largest … models that account for spatial dependence between the growth rates of housing prices and rents. Using a quasi out …-of-sample forecasting of the growth rates of flats' prices and rents for the next six months is done. It shows that in most cities both …

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Can internet ads serve as an indicator of homeownership rates?

Cholodilin, Konstantin Arkadʹevič; Mense, Andreas - 2011

In this paper, we propose an indicator of the homeownership rate based on Internet ads offering the housing for rent and sale. We constructed the HOR estimate using the number of ads in four different markets (flats for rent, flats for sale, houses for rent, and houses for sale). Our HOR...

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Do regions with entrepreneurial neighbors perform better? : A spatial econometric approach for German regions

Pijnenburg, Katharina; Cholodilin, Konstantin Arkadʹevič - 2011

We use a neoclassical production function to analyze the effects of knowledge spillovers via entrepreneurship on economic performance of 337 German districts. To take the spatial dependence structure of the data into account, we estimate a spatial Durbin model. We highlight the importance of the...

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A note on firm age and the margins of imports : first evidence from Germany

Wagner, Joachim - In: Applied economics letters 22 (2015) 7/9, pp. 679-682

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A market screening model for price inconstancies : empirical evidence from German electricity markets

Blanckenburg, Korbinian von; Hanfeld, Marc; Cholodilin, … - 2013

In this paper, we develop a market screening model to detect inconstancies in price changes. Although there is a long history of industrial organization research of collusion, price setting behavior, and conduct - a robust model to detect structural changes in market structure was missing so...

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Business confidence and forecasting of housing prices and rents in large German cities

Cholodilin, Konstantin Arkadʹevič; Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2014

In this paper, we evaluate the forecasting ability of 115 indicators to predict the housing prices and rents in 71 …

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