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concludes with an empirical application to consumer price inflation in Germany, France and Italy, and re-examines the extent to …
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Since 2003 German hospitals are reimbursed according to diagnosis related groups (DRGs). Patient classification in neonatology is based inter alia on birth weight, with substantial discontinuities in reimbursement at eight different thresholds. These discontinuities create strong incentives to...
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-area currencies. First, using dynamic panel techniques, we estimate an error correction model for the dollar real exchange rate versus …
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The expansion of regionalism has spawned an extensive theoretical literature analysing the effects of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU-15) and the Central and Eastern European countries...
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This paper develops an estimator for higher-order spatial autoregressive panel data error component models with spatial …
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, using recent bootstrap panel cointegration techniques and SUR methods. We investigate the magnitude of the relationship … panel cointegration tests used allow for within and between correlation, while the SUR results show both positive and … balances. -- Budget balance ; external balance ; EU ; panel cointegration …
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unbalanced panel of enterprise data from five waves of the Community Innovation Survey during 1994-2004. We estimate by maximum … likelihood a dynamic panel data bivariate tobit with double-index sample selection accounting for individual effects. We find … effects are also important. -- innovation ; panel bivariate tobit model ; innovation expenditures …
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period 1970-2007, for different EU and OECD country groupings. We use the panel-data approach of Kónya (2006), which is based …, Italy, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, and Slovakia, along the lines of the so-called twin-deficit relationship. Considering the … effective real exchange rate in the SUR system does not substantially alter the results. -- Panel causality tests ; budget …
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The paper explores the effect of measurement errors on the estimation of a linear panel data model. The conventional …. -- Panel regression ; multiplicative measurement errors ; bias correction ; asymptotic variance ; disclosure control …
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