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Bilateral investment treaties (BITs) have proliferated over the past 50 years such that the number of pairs of countries with BITs is roughly as large as the number of country-pairs that belong to bilateral or regional preferential trade agreements (PTAs). The purpose of this study is to provide...
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a rich panel data-set of 25,360 firms observed over the period 2004-2007. This industry is characterized by its …
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panel econometric generic structure. The issues covered range from the estimation of double-indexed versus higher …One of the oldest and largest literatures in empirical economics is concerned with the estimation of demand and supply … across pairs or regional units or even across cross-sectional units and time inevitably leads to a panel data structure of …
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chemical industry. We use a rich panel data-set of 12,552 firms observed over the period 2004 - 2006 and model output by the …, that our estimation procedure performs well in small samples. We find evidence of positive spillovers across chemical …
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This paper proposes a Bayesian estimation framework for panel-data sets with binary dependent variables where a large … micro-, meso-, and macroeconomic levels. The paper outlines the estimation approach, illustrates its suitability by …
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This paper analyses the long-memory properties of US and European stock indices, as well as their linkages, using fractional integration and fractional cointegration techniques. These methods are more general and have higher power than the standard ones usually employed in the literature. The...
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This paper investigates the statistical features and the macroeconomic determinants of youth unemployment in a number of European countries. First, it explores its short and long memory properties by estimating both autoregressive and fractional integration models. This type of analysis sheds...
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The European Union (EU) provides grants to disadvantaged regions of member states to allow them to catch up with the EU average. Under the Objective 1 scheme, NUTS2 regions with a GDP per capita level below 75% of the EU average qualify for structural funds transfers from the central EU budget....
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