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Determinanten regionaler Unterschiede in der Gründungshäufigkeit wissensintensiver Dienstleister

Almus, Matthias; Egeln, Jürgen; Engel, Dirk - 1999

interpret the estimation results for start-ups in knowledge intensive sectors in a reliable way. The remaining firms serve as a …

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Comparative forecasting performance of symmetric and asymmetric conditional volatility models of an exchange rate

Balaban, Ercan - 1999

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Does Inflation Targeting Increase Output Volatility? An International Comparison of Policymakers' Preferences and Outcomes

Cecchetti, Stephen G. - 1999

Aggregate shocks that move output and inflation in opposite directions create a tradeoff between output and inflation variability, forcing central bankers to make a choice. Differences in the degree of accommodation of shocks lead to disparate variability outcomes, revealing national central...

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Work Environment and Individual Background : Explaining Regional Shirking Differentials in a Large Italian Firm

Ichino, Andrea - 1999

The prevalence of shirking within a large Italian bank appears to be characterized by significant regional differentials. In particular, absenteeism and misconduct episodes are substantially more prevalent in the south. We consider a number of potential explanations for this fact: different...

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COVID-19 Time-varying Reproduction Numbers Worldwide : An Empirical Analysis of Mandatory and Voluntary Social Distancing

Chudik, Alexander; Pesaran, M. Hashem; Rebucci, Alessandro - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

infected cases, allowing for under-reporting. Estimation is based on a moment condition that can be derived from an agent … of lock-downs and support policies on the transmission rates. The full set of estimation results and the replication …

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Gains from Trade : Does Sectoral Heterogeneity Matter?

Giri, Rahul - 2020

This paper assesses the quantitative importance of including sectoral heterogeneity in computing the gains from trade. Our framework draws from Caliendo and Parro (2015) and has sectoral heterogeneity along five dimensions, including the elasticity of trade to trade costs. We estimate the...

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A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies

Hendren, Nathaniel - 2019

suggest that direct investments in low-income children's health and education have historically had the highest MVPFs, on … amongst children of all ages, rather than observing diminishing marginal returns throughout childhood. We find smaller MVPFs … particular if they induced large spillovers on children. We relate our estimates to existing theories of optimal government …

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Pandemics, Vaccines and Corporate Earnings

Hong, Harrison - 2020

We estimate a model of damage to corporate earnings from COVID-19. An unexpected pandemic lowers current earnings due to costly mitigation and reduces growth rates. Damage depends on the expected arrival of a vaccine that reverts earnings to normal. Using this model, we infer from analysts'...

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A Counterfactual Economic Analysis of Covid-19 Using a Threshold Augmented Multi-Country Model

Chudik, Alexander - 2020

This paper develops a threshold-augmented dynamic multi-country model (TGVAR) to quantify the macroeconomic effects of Covid-19. We show that there exist threshold effects in the relationship between output growth and excess global volatility at individual country levels in a significant...

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Income and Poverty in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Han, Jeehoon - 2020

This paper addresses the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic by providing timely and accurate information on the impact of the current pandemic on income and poverty to inform the targeting of resources to those most affected and assess the success of current efforts. We construct new...

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