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Forecasting the real price of oil in a changing world : a forecast combination approach
Baumeister, Christiane; Kilian, Lutz - In: Journal of business & economic statistics : JBES ; a … 33 (2015) 3, pp. 338-351
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390071
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Who Is Against Immigration? : A Cross-Country Investigation of Individual Attitudes toward Immigrants
Mayda, Anna Maria - 2004
This paper empirically analyzes both economic and non-economic determinants of attitudes toward immigrants, within and across countries. The two individual-level survey data sets used, covering a wide range of developed and developing countries, make it possible to test for interactive effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261871
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Modeling regional interdependencies using a global error-correcting macroeconometric model
Pesaran, M. Hashem; Schuermann, Til; Weiner, Scott M. - In: Journal of business & economic statistics : JBES ; a … 22 (2004) 2, pp. 129-181
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002037011
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Volatility of stock-market indexes : an analysis based on SEMIFAR models
Beran, Jan; Ocker, Dirk - In: Journal of business & economic statistics : JBES ; a … 19 (2001) 1, pp. 103-116
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001543462
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The evolving impact of global, region-specific, and country-specific uncertainty
Mumtaz, Haroon; Musso, Alberto - In: Journal of business & economic statistics : JBES ; a … 39 (2021) 2, pp. 466-481
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012499092
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Potential, prizes and performance : testing tournament theory with professional tennis data
Sunde, Uwe - 2003
This paper tests two hypotheses from the theory of elimination tournaments: (i) that uneven tournaments, where the … contestants are ex ante heterogeneous, entail lower effort exertion; this is a prediction from agency theory that has not been … underlies any agency theory about elimination tournaments, and has been empirically tested in other contexts. The evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261647
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How Outsourcing Affects Bilateral Political Relations
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2004
One issue the literature neglects is how outsourcing stimulates trade (imports, exports and foreign direct investment), thereby affecting political relations. However, at least as far back as 1750, economic philosophers such as Baron de Montesquieu in his L?Esprit des Lois, argued, ?peace is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262075
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International capital market integration, educational choice and economic growth
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Falkinger, Josef; … - 2005
This paper examines the impact of capital market integration (CMI) on higher education and economic growth. We take into account that participation in higher education is non-compulsory and depends on individual choice. Integration increases (decreases) the incentives to participate in higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267663
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Earnings over the lifecycle: the Mincer earnings function and its applications
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2007
In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population. In the years since Mincer's seminal work, he as well as his students and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching important conclusions about a whole array...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268458
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Infinite dimensional VARs and factor models
Chudik, Alexander; Pesaran, Mohammad Hashem - 2007
This paper introduces a novel approach for dealing with the 'curse of dimensionality' in the case of large linear dynamic systems. Restrictions on the coefficients of an unrestricted VAR are proposed that are binding only in a limit as the number of endogenous variables tends to infinity. It is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276258