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The Extension of Clusters: Difference-in-Differences Evidence from the Bavarian State-Wide Cluster Policy

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Kipar, Stefan - CESifo - 2008

If one cluster increases local competitiveness, can politicians, by interlinking clusters, achieve an even better effect at the state level? To answer this question, the paper analyzes the “Cluster Initiative” introduced in 1999 by the Bavarian State Government. The purpose of the initiative...

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Empirical Evidence on the Effectiveness of Social Public Procurement Policy: The Case of the Swiss Apprenticeship Training System

Leiser, Mirjam Strupler; Wolter, Stefan C. - CESifo - 2014

This paper assesses the effectiveness of a social public procurement policy in Switzerland that gives firms that train apprentices’ a preferential treatment. We estimate the effectiveness of this social procurement policy on a firm’s training participation, training intensity, and training...

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The Effect of Central Exit Examinations on Student Achievement: Quasi-experimental Evidence from TIMSS Germany

Jürges, Hendrik; Schneider, Kerstin; Büchel, Felix - CESifo - 2003

This paper makes use of the regional variation in schooling legislation within the German secondary education system to estimate the causal effect of central exit examinations on student performance. We propose a difference-in-differences framework that exploits the quasi-experimental nature of...

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Trade Union Membership and Sickness Absence: Evidence from a Sick Pay Reform

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - CESifo - 2012

In 1996, statutory sick pay was reduced for private sector workers in Germany. Using the empirical observation that trade union members are dismissed less often than non-members, we construct a model to predict how absence behaviour will respond to the sick pay reform. We show that union members...

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Childcare Costs and the Demand for Children - Evidence from a Nationwide Reform

Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - CESifo - 2010

Exploiting the exogenous variation in childcare costs caused by a Swedish childcare reform, we are able to identify the causal effect of childcare costs on fertility in a context in which childcare enrollment is almost universal, user fees are low, and the labor force participation of mothers is...

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The Euro-Dollar Exchange Rate: Is it Fundamental?

Camarero, Mariam; Ordóñez, Javier; Tamarit, Cecilio - CESifo - 2002

-area currencies. First, using dynamic panel techniques, we estimate an error correction model for the dollar real exchange rate versus …

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Stock Market Integration in Asia : Global or Regional? Evidence from Industry Level Panel Convergence Tests

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2017

(industry) level by applying the Phillips-Sul (2007) tests for panel and club convergence. The main findings can be summarised … Telecommunication, both in a turn-around phase, and Gas & Oil and Technology, for which there is no panel convergence. Club convergence … tests reveal the existence of convergence clubs and divergent economies within the full panel, which explains why panel …

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Accuracy and Efficiency of Various GMM Inference Techniques in Dynamic Micro Panel Data Models

Kiviet, Jan F. - 2015

-Bond GMM estimation techniques for single dynamic panel data models with possibly endogenous regressors and cross …

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Racial Group Affinity and Religious Giving : Evidence from Congregation-Level Panel Data

Dimitrova-Grajzl, Valentina P. - 2015

of the determinants of religious giving is a vital policy concern. Drawing on a novel congregation-level panel dataset …

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Aggregation in Large Dynamic Panels

Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2015

This paper considers the problem of aggregation in the case of large linear dynamic panels, where each micro unit is potentially related to all other micro units, and where micro innovations are allowed to be cross sectionally dependent. Following Pesaran (2003), an optimal aggregate function is...

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