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Prediction and Identification in Two-Sided Markets
Boik, Andre - 2018
answers and can be used to estimate market power and pass through rates. I show that even a naive one-sided model that ignores …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012924452
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The Economics of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism : A Survey (Part II)
Schneider, Friedrich - 2010
This survey provides an in-depth analysis of existing research on the economic analysis of terrorism and counter-terrorist measures. First the existing evidence on the causes of terrorism is analyzed, then we consider the evidence of the consequences of terrorism and we demonstrate why it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144782
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The Economics of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism : A Survey (Part I)
Schneider, Friedrich - 2010
This survey provides an in-depth analysis of existing research on the economic analysis of terrorism and counter-terrorist measures. First the existing evidence on the causes of terrorism is analyzed, then we consider the evidence of the consequences of terrorism and we demonstrate why it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144785
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A General Approach to Recovering Market Expectations from Futures Prices with an Application to Crude Oil
Baumeister, Christiane - 2016
Futures markets are a potentially valuable source of information about price expectations. Exploiting this information has proved difficult in practice, because time-varying risk premia often render the futures price a poor measure of the market expectation of the price of the underlying asset....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996209
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Forecasting Imports with Information from Abroad
Grimme, Christian - 2018
experiment, the Import Climate outperforms standard business cycle indicators at short horizons for France, Germany, Italy, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012914684
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The Economics of Temporary Migrations
Dustmann, Christian - 2015
Many migrations are temporary – a fact that has often been ignored in the economic literature on migration. Such omission may be serious in that expected migration temporariness can impart a distinct dynamic element to immigrants' economic behavior, generating possible consequences for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028790
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Going Deep : The Trade and Welfare Effects of TTIP
Aichele, Rahel - 2015
and Investment Partnership (TTIP). We use a multi-country, multi-industry Ricardian trade model with national and … rest of the world relative to the status quo. However, there is substantial heterogeneity across the 134 geographical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030303
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Instrumental Variables and Causal Mechanisms : Unpacking the Effect of Trade on Workers and Voters
Dippel, Christian - 2018
This paper shows that import exposure affects voting behavior because it affects local labor markets. We develop a new framework for mediation analysis where one instrumental variable is sufficient to identify three causal effects. Using German data from 1987–2009, we find that import exposure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927102
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The Employment Effects of Low-Wage Subsidies
Huttunen, Kristiina - 2010
Low-wage subsidies are often proposed as a solution to the unemployment problem among the low skilled. Yet the empirical evidence on the effects of low-wage subsidies is surprisingly scarce. This paper examines the employment effects of a Finnish payroll tax subsidy scheme, which is targeted at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143569
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Forecastability and Statistical Characteristics of Aggregate Oil and Gas Investments on the Norwegian Continental Shelf
Lorentzen, Sindre - 2016
We investigate the potential for statistical forecasting of aggregate oil and gas investment on the Norwegian … random walk benchmark in an out-of-sample environment. Second, lags of investment growth, crude oil price growth and realized … volatility is found to be adequate predictors for the investment growth. Finally, there is a clear benefit from re-estimating the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979540