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Energy consumption and economic growth : new insights into the cointegration relationship
Belke, Ansgar; Dreger, Christian; Haan, Frauke de - 2010
This paper examines the long-run relationship between energy consumption and real GDP, including energy prices, for 25 OECD countries from 1981 to 2007. The distinction between common factors and idiosyncratic components using principal component analysis allows to distinguish between...
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Vorlaufeigenschaften von Ifo-Indikatoren für Westdeutschland
Fritsche, Ulrich - 1999
Ifo-Indikatoren werden auf ihre Vorlaufeigenschaften, auf Granger-Kausalität, die Stabilität der Vorlaufbeziehung und einen Strukturbruch untersucht. Da die Ifo-Reihen noch nicht auf die neue Gliederung der amtlichen Statistik (WZ 93) umgestellt wurden, wird erstmals die Eignung der...
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Kausalanalyse durch Matchingverfahren
Gangl, Markus (contributor); DiPrete, Thomas A. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001971194
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Policy evaluation of waste pricing programs using heterogeneous causal effect estimation
Valente, Marica - 2021
Using machine learning methods in a quasi-experimental setting, I study the heterogeneous effects of introducing waste prices - unit prices on household unsorted waste disposal - on waste demands and social welfare. First, using a unique panel of Italian municipalities with large variation in...
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Causal misperceptions of the part-time pay gap
Schrenker, Annekatrin - 2023
This paper studies if workers infer from correlation about causal effects in the context of the part-time wage penalty. Differences in hourly pay between full-time and part-time workers are strongly driven by worker selection and systematic sorting. Ignoring these selection effects can lead to...
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Drivers of private equity investment in CEE and Western European countries
Bernoth, Kerstin; Colavecchio, Roberta; Sass, Magdolna - 2010
CEE countries. Applying robust estimation techniques we identify a 'robust' set of determinants of private equity activity … Western European and CEE countries. Our results suggest that commercial bank lending, equity market capitalization, unit …
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Absorptive capacities and the impact of FDI on economic growth
Farkas, Beatrice - 2012
This paper analyzes the necessary local conditions required for the existence of positive spillovers from multinationals' entry and it consists of a unified study of absorptive capacities. We start from the idea that FDI speeds up the diffusion of technologies across countries. Yet, the question...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579226
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Exports, international investment, and plant performance : evidence from a non-parametric test
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2003
This paper compares the performance of purely domestic plants, domestic exporters and domestic multinationals. For our empirical analysis we utilise a non-parametric approach based on the principle of first order stochastic dominance. We find that the distributions for multinationals dominate...
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African leaders : their education abroad and FDI flows
Constant, Amelie; Tien, Bienvenue N. - 2010
we constructed from several sources, including the Library of Congress and the World Bank. Our analysis of 40 African …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009274111
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Cross-border banking, bank market structures and market power : theory and cross-country evidence
Bremus, Franziksa - 2013
Patterns in cross-border banking have changed since the global financial crisis. This may affect domestic bank market … modes of cross-border banking impact bank concentration. I use a two- country general equilibrium model with heterogeneous … banking sector on bank market structures. The model suggests that both cross-border lending and bank FDI mitigate …
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