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Crime and Punishment Revisited
Kelaher, Richard; Sarafidis, Vasilis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Despite an abundance of empirical evidence on crime spanning over forty years, there exists no consensus on the impact … of the criminal justice system on crime activity. We argue that this may be due to the combined effect of simultaneity … government areas in Australia and develop a testing framework for the implications of economic theory on crime behaviour. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805891
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Violence and Drug Prohibition in Colombia
Medina, Carlos; Martínez, Hermes - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
We assess the role of inequality, poverty and drug prohibition, in explaining homicide rates(HR) in Colombia using panel data at the municipality level between 1990 and 1998. We use maximum likelihood estimation to evaluate several specifications of spatial models. When we pool the data we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619952
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The formulation and estimation of random effects panel data models of trade
Matyas, Laszlo; Hornok, Cecilia; Pus, Daria - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The paper introduces for the most frequently used three-dimensional panel data sets several random effects model specifications. It derives appropriate estimation methods for the balanced and unbalanced cases. An application is also presented where the bilateral trade of 20 EU countries is...
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Calorie and Nutrient Consumption as a Function of Income: A Cross-Country Analysis
Salois, Matthew; Tiffin, Richard; Balcombe, Kelvin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The relationship between calorie and nutrient (fat, protein, and carbohydrates) intake as a function of income is explored using data for 171 countries over two time periods 1990-1992 and 2003-2005. Three types of analysis are employed: i) nonparametric, ii) panel regressions, and iii) quantile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615047
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Temporal Causality and the Dynamics of Crime in Turkey
Halicioglu, Ferda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Turkey for the period 1965-2009. The determinants of all crime categories are related to selected socio-economic factors …This study is concerned with understanding of the factors of aggregate, nonviolent and violent crime categories in …. Cointegration analysis yields the major contributors of crime are income and unemployment. The direction of causalities between the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112486
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Crime and regional growth in Italy
Lanzafame, Matteo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Building on standard growth-theory models, this paper provides an empirical investigation of the effects of crime on …-group estimation, multifactor modelling and Granger-causality methods. Our results strongly support the hypothesis that crime has …
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The Impacts of the Turkish Emigrants on Turkish Exports and Imports in Europe
Insel, Aysu; Sungur Cakmak, Nesrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper examines the link between migration and trade, focusing on Turkey as a “sending” country and the selected … the exports and imports of Turkey through preference and/or network channels.” The investigation methodology involves the … Turkey and EU countries. The trade function has been determined by the stock of Turkish population, per capita real income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008516580
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Maximum likelihood estimation of a stochastic frontier model with residual covariance
Simwaka, Kisu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In theoretical literature on productivity, the disturbance terms of the stochastic frontier model are assumed to be independent random variables. In this paper, we consider a stochastic production frontier model with residuals that are both spatially and time-wise correlated. We introduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259653
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Fundamentos de econometría intermedia: Teoría y aplicaciones
Antonio, Ramon; Alvarez, Rosales; Andres, Jorge; Calvo, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Econometrics is the area of statistics concerned in analyzing economic data, for both economic and business applications. This document, introduces the intermediate concepts of this area, for students already familiarized with basic econometric theory. In particular, topics concerning...
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Net migration and convergence in Portugal. An alternative analysis
Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In this work we pretend to present a project of research about the identification of the determinants that affect the mobility of labor. The empirical part of the work will be performed for the NUTS II of Portugal, from 1996 to 2002. As main conclusion it can be said which is confirmed the...
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