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The Spatial Organization of Multinational Firms
Defever, Fabrice - 2021
Using six years of firm-level data covering 224 regions of the enlarged European Union, we evaluate the importance to a firm of locating its activities (production, headquarters, R&D, logistics and sales) close together. We find that, after controlling for regional characteristics, being closely...
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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 … allows allocating investments by asset type to each industry, using an investment flow matrix. The database enables … investments. We describe the structure and methodology of the database and illustrate its variety and strengths by looking at some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084902
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Residential Mobility of the European Elderly
Angelini, Viola; Laferrère, Anne - 2021
With the ageing of the European population, the housing choices of the elderly will have consequences on the whole housing market. In this paper we use data from the first two waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to analyse the residential mobility decisions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316118
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Regulation, Institutions and Aggregate Investment : New Evidence from OECD Countries
Egert, Balazs - 2017
and labour market regulation on the capital stock. Several alternative testing methods show that the negative influence of … product and labour market regulation is considerably stronger at higher levels. The paper uncovers important policy …
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Trade Union Membership and Dismissals
Goerke, Laszlo - 2010
In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage. Therefore, prima facie, there are strong incentives to free-ride on the benefits of trade unionism. We establish empirical evidence for a private gain from trade union...
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Spatial and Temporal Diffusion of House Prices in the UK
Holly, Sean - 2013
This paper provides a method for the analysis of the spatial and temporal diffusion of shocks in a dynamic system. We use changes in real house prices within the UK economy at the level of regions to illustrate its use. Adjustment to shocks involves both a region specific and a spatial effect....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095156
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Short and Long-Run Behaviour of Long-Term Sovereign Bond Yields
Afonso, António - 2010
This study assesses the short and long-run behaviour of long-term sovereign bond yields in OECD countries, for the period 1973-2008. We employ a dynamic panel approach to reflect financial and economic integration, and to increase the performance and accuracy of the tests. Given the existence of...
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Spend-and-Tax : A Panel Data Investigation for the EU
Afonso, António - 2009
Using bootstrap panel analysis, allowing for cross-country correlation, without the need of pre-testing for unit roots, we study the causality between government spending and revenue for the EU in the period 1960-2006. We find spend-and-tax causality for Italy, France, Spain, Greece, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158140
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Financial Stability in Europe : Banking and Sovereign Risk
Bruha, Jan - 2017
We analyze the link between banking sector quality and sovereign risk in the whole European Union over 1999–2014. We employ four different indicators of sovereign risk (including market- and opinion-based assessments), a rich set of theoretically and empirically motivated banking sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955275
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3-Step Analysis of Public Finances Sustainability : The Case of the European Union
Afonso, António - 2008
We use a 3-step analysis to assess the sustainability of public finances in the EU27. Firstly, we perform the SURADF specific panel unit root test to investigate the mean-reverting behaviour of general government expenditures and revenues ratios. Secondly, we apply the bootstrap panel...
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