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The effect of the Theo van Gogh murder on house prices in Amsterdam

Gautier, Pieter; Siegmann, Adriaan Hendrik; Vuuren, Aico van - 2007

This paper estimates the impact of the murder of film maker Theo vanGogh on November 2, 2004, on listed house prices in Amsterdam with aunique dataset. We use an hedonic-market approach to show that gen-eral attitudes towards Muslim minorities were negatively affected by themurder. Specifically,...

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The effect of migration on income convergence : meta-analytic evidence

Ozgen, Ceren; Poot, Jacques; Nijkamp, Peter - 2009

Using meta-analytical techniques, we focus on 11 studies that explicitly measure the effect of a net migration variable in neoclassical convergence models and derive 57 comparable effect sizes. The data suggest that an increase in the net migration rate of one percentage point increases on...

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Regional economic impacts of immigration : a review

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2009 - Version: 23 July 2009

A burgeoning literature has emerged during the last two decades to assess the economic impacts of immigration on host countries. In recent years much research has been at the national level under the assumption that impacts in open regions may dissipate through adjustment processes such as...

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Interaction of regional population and employment

Vermeulen, Wouter; Ommeren, Jos van - 2004

We investigate the interaction of regional population and employment in a simu1taneousmodel, allowing for interregional commuting. The proposed dynamic specificationdistinguishes between short-run and equilibrium adjustment effects and it encompassesthe lagged-adjustment specification that is...

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Does access to foreign markets shape internal migration? : evidence from Brazil

Hering, Laura; Paillacar, Rodrigo - 2014

This paper investigates how internal migration is affected by Brazil's increased integration into the world economy. We analyze the impact of regional differences in access to foreign demand on sector-specific bilateral migration rates between the Brazilian states for the years 1995 to 2003....

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The weak instrument problem of the system GMM estimator in dynamic panel data models

Bun, Maurice J. G.; Windmeijer, Frank - 2009

The system GMM estimator for dynamic panel data models combines moment conditions for the model in first differences … with moment conditions for the model in levels. It has been shown to improve on the GMM estimator in the first differenced … results are shown to extend to the panel data GMM estimators. …

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Nearly unbiased estimationin dynamic panel data models

Carree, Martin Anthony - 2002

This paper introduces two easy to calculate estimators with desirable properties for theautoregressive parameter in dynamic panel data models. The estimators are (nearly) unbiased andperform satisfactorily even for small samples in either the time-series or cross-section dimension.

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Agglomeration externalities and localized employment growth

Vor, Friso de; Groot, Henri L. F. de - 2008

This paper addresses the question to what extent the performance of industrial sites is affected by their local economic structure and accessibility. For this aim, we test for the existence of statistically significant relationships between agglomeration externalities (specialization, diversity,...

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The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship competencies and intentions

Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van; IJsselstein, Auke - 2007 - This version: November 2007

This paper analyzes the impact of a leading entrepreneurship education program on college students’ entrepreneurship competencies and intentions using an instrumental variables approach in a difference-in-differences framework. We exploit that the program was offered to students at one...

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Daily market news sentiment and stock prices

Allen, David E.; McAleer, Michael; Singh, Abhay K - 2015

In recent years there has been a tremendous growth in the influx of news related to traded assets in international financial markets. This financial news is now available via print media but also through real-time online sources such as internet news and social media sources. The increase in the...

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