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International capital market integration, educational choice and economic growth

Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Falkinger, Josef; … - 2005

thereby fosters economic growth. We apply a structural estimation approach to fully track the endogenous mechanisms of the …

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Endogenous product versus process innovation and a firm's propensity to export

Becker, Sascha O. (contributor); Egger, Peter (contributor) - 2007

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Do fiscal transfers alleviate business tax competition? : evidence from Germany

Egger, Peter (contributor); … - 2007

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Sources of productivity spillovers : panel data evidence from China

Baltagi, Badi H.; Egger, Peter; Kesina, Michaela - 2014

This paper assesses sources of productivity spillovers in China's electric and electronic manufacturing industry using a rich panel data-set of 25,360 firms observed over the period 2004-2007. This industry is characterized by its important reliance on technology. In particular, the paper...

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Panel data gravity models of international trade

Baltagi, Badi H.; Egger, Peter; Pfaffermayr, Michael - 2014

One of the oldest and largest literatures in empirical economics is concerned with the estimation of demand and supply … the data. This chapter is concerned with a host of issues that arise with the estimation of such models, respecting their … panel econometric generic structure. The issues covered range from the estimation of double-indexed versus higher …

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The determinants of trade costs : a random coefficients approach

Egger, Peter; Průša, Jan - 2014

This paper assesses whether the sensitivity of bilateral trade volumes to various trade cost factors is constant or varies across countries. It utilizes a random coeffcients model and analyses a cross-sectional sample of bilateral trade data for 96 countries in 2005. We expect the elasticity of...

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What determines BITs?

Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Egger, Peter - 2011

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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Trade, wages, and profits

Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Kreickemeier, Udo - 2012

This paper formulates a structural empirical model of heterogeneous firms whose workers exhibit fair-wage preferences, leading to a link between a firm's operating profits and wages of workers employed by this firm. We estimate the parameters of the model in a data-set of five European...

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Going NUTS : the effect of EU structural funds on regional performance

Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter; Ehrlich, Maximilian Von; … - 2008

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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Intra- and inter-industry productivity spillovers in OECD manufacturing : a spatial econometric perspective

Badinger, Harald (contributor); Egger, Peter (contributor) - 2008

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