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Nowcasting regional GDP : the case of the Free State of Saxony
Henzel, Steffen; Lehmann, Robert; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2015
We tackle the nowcasting problem at the regional level using a large set of indicators (regional, national and international) for the years 1998 to 2013. We explicitly use the ragged-edge data structure and consider the different information sets faced by a regional forecaster within each...
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Forecasting GDP at the regional level with many predictors
Lehmann, Robert; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2012
In this paper, we assess the accuracy of macroeconomic forecasts at the regional level using a unique data set at quarterly frequency. We forecast gross domestic product (GDP) for two German states (Free State of Saxony and Baden-Württemberg) and Eastern Germany. We overcome the problem of a...
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Self-preserving leviathans : evidence from regional-level data
Kluge, Jan; Markwardt, Gunther; Thater, Christian - 2015
This paper investigates the impact of the intensity of political competition on the leviathan behavior by political incumbents. Using panel data from German municipalities, we test whether the relative political strength of parties in local councils influences the spending behavior of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010475339
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Caught between cultures : unintended consequences of improving opportunity for immigrant girls
Dahl, Gordon B.; Felfe, Christina; Frijters, Paul; … - 2020
What happens when immigrant girls are given increased opportunities to integrate into the workplace and society, but their parents value more traditional cultural outcomes? Building on Akerlof and Kranton's identity framework (2000), we construct a simple theoretical model which shows how...
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Multigenerational transmission of culture
Spiro, Daniel - 2019
's preferences. Furthermore, interaction of groups implies more extreme initial behavior but also faster integration. …
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Integrating with their feet : cross-border lending at the German-Austrian border
Fidrmuc, Jarko (contributor); Hainz, Christa (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003688885
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Learning from the origins
Yarkin, Alexander - 2023
abroad. Local diasporas, social media, and family ties to the origins facilitate the transmission, while social integration …
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Legislature integration and bipartisanship : a natural experiment in Iceland
Lowe, Matt; Jo, Donghee - 2021
estimate the effects of seating integration on bipartisanship. When two politicians from different parties are randomly …
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First time around : local conditions and multi-dimensional integration of refugees
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu; Schikora, Felicitas - 2020
refugees' multi-dimensional integration outcomes (economic, linguistic, navigational, political, psychological, and social … social integration: they are less likely to be in education or employment and they earn less. We also show that favorable … attitudes towards immigrants promote refugees' economic and social integration. The results suggest that attitudes toward …
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Forced migration, staying minorities, and new societies : evidence from post-war Czechoslovakia
Grossmann, Jakub; Jurajda, Štěpán; Rösel, Felix - 2021
How do staying minorities that evade ethnic cleansing integrate into re-settled communities? After World War Two, three million ethnic Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland, but some were allowed to stay, many of them left-leaning anti-fascists. We study quasi-experimental...
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