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Personality Traits and the Evaluation of Start-Up Subsidies
Caliendo, Marco - 2016
. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional independence assumption (CIA), allowing a causal … success, these variables were neglected in evaluation studies so far due to data limitations. In this paper, we evaluate a new … start-up subsidy for unemployed individuals in Germany using propensity score matching under the CIA. Having access to rich …
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Who Is the 'Journal Grand Master'? A New Ranking Based on the Elo Rating System
Lehmann, Robert - 2017
In this paper we transfer the Elo rating system, which is widely accepted in chess, sports and other disciplines, to rank scientific journals. The advantage of the Elo system is the explicit consideration of the factor time or the history of a journal's performance. Most other rankings that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964185
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The Ifo Investment Database
Strobel, Thomas - 2013
In this paper we present the Ifo Investment Database, which provides annual investment data for 12 investment assets in 50 German industries from 1991 onward. The data is consistent with national accounts statistics provided by the German Federal Statistical Office and is based on investments in...
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Assessing the Macroeconomic Forecasting Performance of Boosting - Evidence for the United States, the Euro Area, and Germany
Buchen, Teresa - 2013
to the fit. Using data for the United States, the euro area and Germany, we assess the performance of boosting when …
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Which Factors Drive the Decision to Boycott and Opt Out of Research Rankings?
Berlemann, Michael - 2012
the best known research ranking of business scholars, initiated and published by Germany's largest business daily …
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Boosting and Regional Economic Forecasting : The Case of Germany
Lehmann, Robert; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2021
German states (the Free State of Saxony and Baden-Wuerttemberg) and Eastern Germany for the period from 1997 to 2013, in …
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Forecasting GDP at the Regional Level with Many Predictors
Lehmann, Robert; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2021
-Württemberg) and Eastern Germany. We overcome the problem of a ’data-poor environment’ at the sub-national level by including more than …
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