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Do geographical variations in climate influence life satisfaction?
Murray, Thomas; Maddison, David; Rehdanz, Katrin - 2011
Accounting for socioeconomic and demographic variables as well as country specific effects, households' willingness to pay for changes in climate is revealed using European data on reported life satisfaction. Individuals located in areas with lower average levels of sunshine and higher average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285491
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A new global index on infrastructure: Construction, rankings and applications
Donaubauer, Julian; Meyer, Birgit; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2014
We construct comprehensive and comparable indices on the most relevant components of economic infrastructure. An unobserved components model is employed to cover the largest possible number of developing and developed countries over the period 1990-2010. We map major findings from the new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010368450
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Closing the gap between absolute and relative measures of localization, concentration or specialization
Bickenbach, Frank; Bode, Eckhardt; Krieger-Boden, Christiane - 2010
This paper solves one of the puzzles in the analysis of regional and industrial distributions of economic activity, the discrepancy between absolute and relative measures. It shows that the difference between an absolute and a relative Theil index of localization can be expressed in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272103
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Disproportionality measures of concentration, specialization, and polarization
Bickenbach, Frank; Bode, Eckhardt - 2006
The paper extends the methodological toolbox of measures of industrial concentration and regional specialization. First, a taxonomy is proposed which gives rise to a modular construction system for disproportionality measures based on three characteristic features: the projection function, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273094
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Regional inequality of higher education in China and the role of unequal economic development
Bickenbach, Frank; Liu, Wan-Hsin - 2011
Over the past decade the scale of higher education in China has expanded substantially. Regional development policies attempted to make use of the scale expansion as a tool to reduce the inequality of higher education among different regions with different development levels through providing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274438
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Structural cohesion in Europe: Stylized facts
Bickenbach, Frank; Bode, Eckhardt; Krieger-Boden, Christiane - 2010
This paper establishes eight stylized facts on the evolution of the localization of economic activity across industries and regions in the EU-15 since 1980. Localization, which nests concentration and specialization, is measured by a Theil index. The stylized facts reveal a broad aggregate trend...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274439
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Measuring changes in the value of the numeraire
Reis, Ricardo; Watson, Mark W. - 2007
This paper estimates a common component in many price series that has an equiproportional effect on all prices. Changes in this component can be interpreted as changes in the value of the numeraire since, by definition, they leave all relative prices unchanged. The first aim of the paper is to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260598
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Needs-based targeting or favoritism? The regional allocation of multilateral aid within recipient countries
Öhler, Hannes; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2013
The regional allocation of aid within recipient countries has been largely ignored in the aid allocation literature. We … use geocoded data on the location of aid projects financed by the World Bank and the African Development Bank within a … sample of 27 recipient countries to assess the claim of donors that their aid targets needy population segments. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292636
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The allocation of German aid: Self-interest and government ideology
Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Schmaljohann, Maya - 2013
We investigate the importance of geo-strategic and commercial motives for the allocation of German aid to 138 countries … leadership. Socialist leadership also decreases the amount of aid commitments, controlled for other factors. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292724
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Why donors of foreign aid do not coordinate: The role of competition for export markets and political support
Fuchs, Andreas; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2013
Development assistance has been criticized for a lack of coordination between aid donors. This paper argues that … competition for export markets and political support prevents donor countries from closer coordination of aid activities. To test … these hypotheses, we perform logit and fractional logit estimations for a large sample of recipient countries and aid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292725