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The dynamics of finance-growth-inequality nexus : theory and evidence for India

Pranab Kumar Das; Ganguli, Bhaswati; Marjit, Sugata; … - 2018

The purpose of this research study has been to expand our understanding of the finance-growth "nexus" to finance-growth-inequality "nexus" in the presence of both the formal and the informal sources of borrowing. Using empirical evidence of IHDS Survey data for two rounds the study attempts to...

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On the equivalence of location choice models : conditional logit, nested logit and poisson

Schmidheiny, Kurt; Brülhart, Marius - 2009

It is well understood that the two most popular empirical models of location choice - conditional logit and Poisson - return identical coefficient estimates when the regressors are not individual specific. We show that these two models differ starkly in terms of their implied predictions. The...

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Female migration : a way out of discrimination?

Ruyssen, Ilse; Salomone, Sara - 2015

In light of the recent feminization of migration, we empirically explore to what extent worldwide female migration can be explained by perceived gender discrimination. Thanks to unique individual level data, we track women's willingness and preparation to emigrate from 150 countries between...

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Tax vs. regulation policy and the location of financial sector FDI

Merz, Julia; Overesch, Michael; Wamser, Georg - 2015

This paper analyzes how corporate taxation and regulatory requirements affect the location of financial sector FDI. We use novel information on new financial services entities established by multinational firms in 83 host countries. We find a negative effect of host country taxes on the...

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Continuous logit polycentric city model

Wrede, Matthias - 2014

This paper analyzes a closed, essentially linear polycentric city with homogenous households who probabilistically select their workplace and residence locations. The study utilizes a continuous logit model to describe household location choices. In contrast to the classic urban model with...

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State dependence in welfare receipt : transitions before and after a reform

Riphahn, Regina T.; Wunder, Christoph - 2013

We study state dependence in welfare receipt and investigate whether welfare transitions changed after a welfare reform. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we apply dynamic multinomial logit estimators and find that state dependence in welfare receipt is not a central feature of...

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Estimating consumer inertia in repeated choices of smartphones

Grzybowski, Lukasz; Nicolle, Ambre - 2018

In this paper, we use a unique dataset on switching between mobile handsets in a sample of about 8,623 subscribers using tariffs without handset subsidies from a single mobile operator on a monthly basis between July 2011 and December 2014. We estimate a discrete choice model in which we account...

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Unraveling firms : demand, productivity and markups heterogeneity

Forlani, Emanuele; Martin, Ralf; Mion, Giordano; Muls, … - 2016 - First draft: 16th June 2015. This draft: January 15, 2016

We develop a new econometric framework that simultaneously allows recovering heterogeneity in demand, TFP and markups … quantify TFP, demand and markups and show how they are correlated among them, across time and with measures obtained from other …

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The UK's great demand and supply recession

Jacob, Nick; Mion, Giordano - 2020

framework and firm-level prices and quantities data for detailed products allowing us to both measure demand, and its changes …. This in turn allows us to measure how changes in TFP-Q, demand and markups ultimately affected revenue TFP, as well as …-recession is due to both a weakening of demand and a decreasing TFP-Q pushing down sales, markups, revenue TFP and labour …

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Demand or supply? : price adjustment during the Covid-19 pandemic

Balleer, Almut; Link, Sebastian; Menkhoff, Manuel; … - 2020 - This version: August 2020

We study planned price changes in German firm-level survey data to infer the relative importance of supply and demand … during the Covid-19 pandemic. Supply and demand forces coexist, but demand deficiencies dominate in the short run. Quarter … role for demand stimulus policy to buffer the Covid-19 economic crisis. …

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