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The effects of school competition on academic achievement and grading standards
Himmler, Oliver - 2009
outside option to public and other schools, this paper considers the effect of catholic competition on non-catholic school … performance in pre-university education. Employing data from central exit exams, a positive link between competition intensity and … academic achievement is found. In addition to raising achievement, higher levels of competition are not associated with a …
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Identifying State Dependence in Brand Choice : Evidence from Hurricanes
Levine, Julia; Seiler, Stephan - 2022
We analyze structural state dependence in brand choice using variation from brand switching during stock-outs caused by … brand switching due to stock-outs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014078199
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Droughts and Farms' Financial Performance in New Zealand : A Micro Farm-Level Study
Pourzand, Farnaz - 2019
We quantify the impacts of droughts in New Zealand on the profitability of dairy, and sheep and beef farms. Using a comprehensive administrative database of all businesses in New Zealand, we investigate the impact of droughts on farm revenue, profits, return on capital, business equity, debt to...
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Impacts of Droughts and Floods on Agricultural Productivity in New Zealand as Measured from Space
Blanc, Élodie; Noy, Ilan - 2022
This study estimates the impact of excess precipitation (or the absence of rainfall) on productivity of agricultural land parcels in New Zealand. This type of post-disaster damage assessments aims to allow for quantification of disaster damage when on-the-ground assessment of damage is too...
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Insurance Retreat in Residential Properties from Future Sea Level Rise in Aotearoa New Zealand
Storey, Belinda; Zammit, Christian; Owen, Sally; Noy, Ilan - 2022
How will the increased frequency of coastal inundation events induced by sea level rise impact residential insurance premiums, and when would insurance contracts be withdrawn? We model the contribution of localised sea level rise to the increased frequency of coastal inundation events. Examining...
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Dynamics and Endogeneity of Firms' Recruitment Behaviour
Ehrenfried, Felix - 2019
Models of random search, directed search, or stock-ow matching differ substantially in the way they assume that job seekers and firms behave during the recruitment process. In this paper we identify new patterns about the recruitment behaviour of firms using the entropy balancing technique and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892289
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What Kind of EU Fiscal Capacity? Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment in Five European Countries in Times of Corona
Beetsma, Roel - 2020
Based on a conjoint survey experiment we explore the support among European citizens for a European Union (EU) budgetary assistance instrument to combat adverse temporary or permanent economic shocks hitting Member States. Suitably designed, there is quite substantial support for such an EU...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825998
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Are Dutch Old-Age Pensions Taxed Fairly and Efficiently?
Genser, Bernd - 2020
these problems, as well as other minor problems in Dutch pension taxation, could be solved by replacing the Netherlands …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827115
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FDI and the Relevance of Spatial Linkages : Do Third Country Effects Matter for Dutch FDI?
Garretsen, Harry - 2013
The aim of this paper is to test for the relevance of spatial linkages for Dutch (outbound) FDI. To do so, and based on recent FDI theories, we estimate a spatial lag model to assess the importance of spatial linkages for Dutch FDI to 18 host countries. As a determinant of FDI, space or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753723
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The Comparative Advantage of Dutch Cities
Brakman, Steven; Hendrich, Tijl; Marrewijk, Charles van; … - 2021
advantage patterns for 22 cities and 4 regions for (a selection of) 83 sectors within The Netherlands. Our findings are as … the Netherlands also have a strong comparative (dis-) advantage relative to the world. Only a few locations house sectors …
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