zero and (2) inflation optimally responds to productivity disturbances. Using micro data from the US Census Bureau to …

concerned are data availability for the eastern part of Germany and structural changes within the behavioural equations after … unification. Our paper presents results from the estimation of a macroeconometric disequilibrium model formerly developed for West …

, using estimations based on a unique pseudo-panel data set from Germany for the period 1998 to 2006. Tax return data cover … tax return data …

Geographically weighted small area methods have been studied in literature for small area estimation. Although these … approaches are useful for the estimation of small area means efficiently under strict parametric assumptions, they can be very … sensitive to outliers in the data. In this paper, we propose a robust extension of the geographically weighted empirical best …

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 …

to panel attrition, which are thought to worsen the bias resulting from initial nonresponse. However, under certain … conditions an initial wave nonresponse bias may vanish in later panel waves. We study such a "Fade away" of an initial … nonresponse bias in the context of regression analysis. By using a time series approach for the covariate and the error terms we …