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Personality traits and the evaluation of start-up subsidies

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2016

. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional independence assumption (CIA), allowing a causal … success, these variables were neglected in evaluation studies so far due to data limitations. In this paper, we evaluate a new … administrative-survey data allows us to incorporate usually unobserved personality measures in the evaluation and investigate their …

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Persistence in real GDP : evidence from Europe and the US

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2025

This note provides extensive evidence on the persistence properties of real GDP in 17 European countries and in the US over the period 1960-2023 using a fractional integration framework. The analysis suggests that in all cases shocks have permanent effects on the level of real GDP. This is...

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When am I richer than you? : toward a meaningful comparison of income of nations

Ahsan, Syed M.; Ahsan, S. Quamrul - 2025

Per-capita national income remains a primary indicator of wellbeing in an international comparison. Accordingly, the World Bank has popularised the concept of constant-dollar income of a given base year (say 2015), which converts income denominated in constant local currency units (LCU) to a...

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What does codetermination do?

Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021

We provide a comprehensive overview of codetermination, i.e., worker representation in firms' governance and management. We cover the institution’s history, implementation, and the best available evidence on its economic impacts. We argue that existing quasi-experimental estimates suggest that...

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Revisiting the great ratios hypothesis

Chudik, Alexander; Pesaran, M. Hashem; Smith, Ron - 2022

The idea that certain economic variables are roughly constant in the long-run is an old one. Kaldor described them as stylized facts, whereas Klein and Kosobud labelled them great ratios. While such ratios are widely adopted in theoretical models in economics as conditions for balanced growth,...

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Subnational income growth and international border effects

Adam, Hanna L.; Larch, Mario; Stadelmann, David - 2021

This paper analyses the effect of international borders and of trade agreements at international borders on subnational (i.e. regional) growth. We construct an extensive panel dataset covering 1,350 regions in 86 countries worldwide between 1950 and 2017. Our results show that international...

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Robust growth determinants

Doppelhofer, Gernot; Weeks, Melvyn - 2011

This paper investigates the robustness of determinants of economic growth in the presence of model uncertainty, parameter heterogeneity and outliers. The robust model averaging approach introduced in the paper uses a flexible and parsimonious mixture modeling that allows for fat-tailed errors...

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Quarterly GDP estimates for the German States : new data for business cycle analyses and long-run dynamics

Lehmann, Robert; Wikman, Ida - 2023

To date, only annual information on economic activity is published for the 16 German states. In this paper, we calculate quarterly regional GDP estimates for the period between 1995 to 2021, thereby improving the regional database for Germany. The new data set will regularly be updated when...

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Trade liberalization and local development in India : evidence from nighttime lights

Jha, Priyaranjan; Talathi, Karan - 2023

We study the impact of the Indian trade liberalization of 1991 on development at the district level using satellite nighttime lights per capita as a proxy for development. We find that on average trade liberalization increased nighttime lights per capita but there was considerable heterogeneity...

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The WB constant dollar income concept : an interpretation

Ahsan, Syed M.; Ahsan, S. Quamrul - 2022

The present note raises the issue of how best to interpret the World Bank's (WB) much used "constant USD per capita income" concept and similar series. We find that the guide to its construction appearing on the WB data portal to be sketchy. The procedures essentially convert all host-country...

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