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An economic cost-benefit analysis of a general speed limit on German highways
Thiedig, Johannes - 2018
Uniquely amongst industrialized countries worldwide, Germany does not impose a general speed limit on highways. This is different in the Netherlands, where a limit of 130km/h is implemented. The direct border between the two countries provides an opportunity to construct a natural experiment and...
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Kernel density estimation for heaped data
Groß, Marcus; Rendtel, Ulrich - 2015
desirability. By ignoring the heaping process a severe bias in terms of spikes and bumps is introduced when applying kernel density … with potentially asymmetric rounding behaviour in univariate kernel density estimation is presented in this work. The …
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Crime, deterrence and punishment revisited
Kelaher, Richard; Sarafidis, Vasilis; Bun, Maurice J. G. - 2016
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Biased by success and failure : how unemployment shapes stated locus of control
Preuß, Malte; Hennecke, Juliane - 2017
Due to its extraordinary explanatory power for individual behavior, the interest in the concept of locus of control (LOC) has increased substantially within applied economic research. But, even though LOC has been found to affect economic behavior in many ways, the reliability of these findings...
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Decomposing trust
Engelmann, Dirk; Friedrichsen, Jana; Veldhuizen, Roel van; … - 2023
regressions, in particular with respect to measurement error and omitted variable bias. …
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The compensation principle: reversal and bias in cost benefit tests
Bruce, Neil; Harris, Richard - 1981
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Happiness as a driver of risk-avoiding behavior
Goudie, Robert J. B.; Mukherjee, Sach; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel - 2012
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Estimating the density of ethnic minorities and aged people in Berlin : multivariate kernel density estimation applied to sensitive geo-referenced administrative data protected via...
Groß, Marcus; Rendtel, Ulrich; Schmid, Timo; Schmon, … - 2015
Modern systems of official statistics require the timely estimation of area-specific densities of sub …-parametric kernel density estimation that reverses the rounding process by using a Bayesian measurement error model. The methodology is …
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Is local bias a cross-border phenomenon? : evidence from individual investors’ international asset allocation
Baltzer, Markus; Stolper, Oscar; Walter, Andreas - 2013
stocks (local bias). We hypothesize that individual investors’ local bias is not limited to the domestic sphere but instead … also determines their international investment decisions. Our results confirm the presence of a cross-border local bias … display a significantly lower foreign investment bias towards investment opportunities in that country and (ii) that this drop …
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Quantifying bias and inaccuracy of upper-level aggregation in HICPs for Germany and the euro area
Herzberg, Julika; Knetsch, Thomas A.; Schwind, Patrick; … - 2021
Current HICP measurement practices produce an upward bias of about one-ninth of a percentage point in German inflation …
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