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Nested Stochastic Possibility Frontiers with Heterogeneous Capital Inputs
Erber, Georg; Madlener, Reinhard - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
1980 to 2004, calculated and published by the Groningen Growth and Development Centre, are used in the empirical analysis …
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What Drives Heterogeneity in Foreign Exchange Rate Expectations: Deep Insights from a New Survey
Dreger, Christian; Stadtmann, Georg - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
, like GDP growth, inflation, and interest rates. Different expectations of fundamentals might lead to different views of …
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Cross-Section Dependence and the Monetary Exchange Rate Model: A Panel Analysis
Beckmann, Joscha; Belke, Ansgar; Dobnik, Frauke - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
This paper tackles the issue of cross-section dependence for the monetary exchange rate model in the presence of unobserved common factors using panel data from 1973 until 2007 for 19 OECD countries. Applying a principal component analysis we distinguish between common factors and idiosyncratic...
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How Stable Are Monetary Models of the Dollar-Euro Exchange Rate?: A Time-Varying Coefficient Approach
Beckmann, Joscha; Belke, Ansgar; Kühl, Michael - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
This paper examines the significance of different fundamental regimes by applying various monetary models of the exchange rate to one of the politically most important exchange rates, the exchange rate of the US dollar vis-à-vis the euro (the DM). We use monthly data from 1975:01 to 2007:12....
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Long Memory and Fractional Integration in High Frequency Data on the US Dollar / British Pound Spot Exchange Rate
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alana, Luis A. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
This paper analyses the long-memory properties of a high-frequency financial time series dataset. It focuses on temporal aggregation and other features of the data, and how they might affect the degree of dependence of the series. Fractional integration or I(d) models are estimated with a...
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Technological Change and Transition: Relative Contributions to Worldwide Growth during the 1990s
Badunenko, Oleg; Henderson, Daniel J.; Zelenyuk, Valentin - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
In this paper we used the procedures developed in the Kumar and Russell (2002) growth-accounting study to examine cross …-country growth during the 1990's. Using a data set comprising developed, newly industrialized, developing and transitional economies …, we decomposed the growth of output per worker into components attributable to technological catch-up, technological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069101
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Internet-Based Hedonic Indices of Rents and Prices for Flats: Example of Berlin
Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Mense, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
In this paper, we suggest to estimate the home rents and prices in German regions/cities using the data from Internet ads offering the housing for rent and sale. Given the richness of information contained in the ads, we are able to construct the quality-adjusted rent and price indices using the...
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Can Internet Ads Serve as an Indicator of Homeownership Rates?
Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Mense, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
In this paper, we propose an indicator of the homeownership rate based on Internet ads offering the housing for rent and sale. We constructed the HOR estimate using the number of ads in four different markets (flats for rent, flats for sale, houses for rent, and houses for sale). Our HOR...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360168
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European Regional Convergence in a Human Capital Augmented Solow Model
Eckey, Hans-Friedrich; Dreger, Christian; Türck, Matthias - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
In this paper, the process of productivity convergence is investigated for the enlarged European Union using regional (NUTS-2) data. The Solow model extended by human capital is employed as a workhorse. Alternative strategies are proposed to control for spatial effects. All specifications...
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Economic Convergence and Rent-Seeking in Iran
Dreger, Christian; Rahmani, Teymur; Eckey, Hans-Friedrich - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
The neoclassical growth model predicts convergence of productivity or per capita output levels across regions. If … seeking. Due to its impact on the allocation of resources, rent-seeking is likely an impediment to overall growth. The results …
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