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Are There No Wage Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany? A Reassessment
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2021
This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and von Wachter (Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(3), 592-598), which is unusual in the literature yet widely cited and until now uncontradicted. I document that this finding...
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Knowledge Transfers from Multinational to Domestic Firms: Evidence from Worker Mobility – A Replication-Robustness Study of Poole (2013)
Haller, Stefanie A.; Flaherty, Eoin T.; Balsvik, Ragnhild; … - 2023
This paper replicates Poole (2013) using comprehensive Norwegian and Irish register data. Our results largely confirm the evidence documented in Poole for Brazil which suggests that when workers leave multinationals and are rehired at domestic establishments, the wages of their new coworkers who...
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A Journal-Based Replication of "Being Chosen to Lead"
Drazen, Allan; Dreber, Anna; Ozbay, Erkut Y.; Snowberg, Erik - 2019
: journal-based replication, in which the publishing journal contracts for a replication between acceptance and publication. We … discuss what we learned from a proof-of-concept journal-based replication at the Journal of Public Economics. Our experience … indicates that journal-based replication would be relatively straightforward to implement for laboratory experiments. …
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The Structure of Multinational Firms' International Activities
Davies, Ronald B.; Markusen, James R. - 2020
The structure of a multinational firm, that is how its affiliates relate to one another, is critical for understanding where multinationals locate, how policy affects them, and their resilience to localized shocks. Here, we review the two main structures: horizontal investments which replicate...
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Economists in the PITS?
Frey, Bruno S. - 2009
Academic economists today are caught in a Publication Impossibility Theorem System" or PITS. To further their careers, they are required to publish in A-journals, but this is impossible for the vast majority because there are few slots open in such journals. Such academic competition is held to...
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Econometrics: a bird's eye view
Geweke, John F.; Horowitz, Joel L.; Pesaran, Mohammad Hashem - 2006
As a unified discipline, econometrics is still relatively young and has been transforming and expanding very rapidly over the past few decades. Major advances have taken place in the analysis of cross sectional data by means of semi-parametric and non-parametric techniques. Heterogeneity of...
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Boosting and Regional Economic Forecasting: The Case of Germany
Lehmann, Robert; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2016
This paper applies component-wise boosting to the topic of regional economic forecasting. Component-wise boosting is a pre-selection algorithm of indicators for forecasting. By using unique quarterly real gross domestic product data for two German states (the Free State of Saxony and...
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Forecasting the Brent Oil Price: Addressing Time-Variation in Forecast Performance
Belu Manescu, Cristiana; Van Robays, Ine - 2016
This paper explores a range of different forecast methods for Brent oil prices and analyses their performance relative to oil futures and the random walk over the period 1995Q1 - 2015Q2, including periods of stable, upwardly trending and rapidly dropping oil prices. None of the individual...
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Asymptotic Variance of Brier (Skill) Score in the Presence of Serial Correlation
Lahiri, Kajal; Yang, Liu - 2015
We propose autocorrelation-robust asymptotic variances of the Brier score and Brier skill score, which are generally applicable in circumstances with weak serial correlation. An empirical application in macroeconomics underscores the importance of taking care of serial correlation. We find that...
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Nowcasting Regional GDP: The Case of the Free State of Saxony
Henzel, Steffen; Lehmann, Robert; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2015
We tackle the nowcasting problem at the regional level using a large set of indicators (regional, national and international) for the years 1998 to 2013. We explicitly use the ragged-edge data structure and consider the different information sets faced by a regional forecaster within each...
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