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Prospective Nato or EU Membership and Institutional Change in Transition Countries

Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2009

This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 we show that pre-accession incentives provided by EU and...

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Named entity narratives

Benner, Niklas; Lange, Kai-Robin; Jentsch, Carsten - 2022

While the actions of economists and politicians can be influenced by facts, statistics or empirical predictions, narratives are becoming an increasingly important factor for the decision making in the field of economics and politics. Evaluating such narratives not at selective points in time but...

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Towards extracting collective economic narratives from texts

Lange, Kai-Robin; Reccius, Matthias; Schmidt, Tobias; … - 2022

Identifying narratives in texts is a challenging task, as not only narrative elements such as the factors and events have to be identified but their semantic relation has to be explained as well. Despite this complexity, an effective technique to extract narratives from texts can have a great...

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Text data rule - don't they? A study on the (additional) information of Handelsblatt data for nowcasting German GDP in comparison to established economic indicators

Shrub, Yuliya; Rieger, Jonas; Müller, Henrik; Jentsch, … - 2022

The prompt availability of information on the current state of the economy in real-time is required for prediction purposes and crucial for timely policy adjustment and economic decision-making. While important macroeconomic indicators are reported only quarterly and also published with...

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European funds and firm performance: Evidence from a natural experiment

Gabriel, José Mesquita; dos Santos, João Pereira; … - 2022

Expanding regional eligibility in the access to grants can have important consequences for the performance of firms. We examine a quasi-natural experiment that consisted of a redrawing of administrative areas intended to increase accessibility to European Union (EU) funds using a rich...

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Quasi-experimental Methods in Empirical Regional Science and Policy Analysis – Is there a Scope for Application?

Mitze, Timo; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; Alecke, Björn - 2012

Applied econometrics has recently emphasized the identification of causal parameters for policy analysis. This … approach - part of the modern applied econometrics toolkit - in regional science and highlight special features of regional … zeigen, dass eine derartige Regionalpolitik grundsätzlich effektiv - dies jedoch nur bis zu einer bestimmten 'maximalen …

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Quasi-experimental Methods in Empirical Regional Science and Policy Analysis – Is there a Scope for Application?

Mitze, Timo; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; Alecke, Björn - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012

Applied econometrics has recently emphasized the identification of causal parameters for policy analysis. This … approach – part of the modern applied econometrics toolkit – in regional science and highlight special features of regional …

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Enlarging the EMU to the east: What effects on trade?

Belke, Ansgar; Spies, Julia - 2007

The purpose of this paper is to assess the implications of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) accession of eight Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) on their share in EMU-12 imports. Overcoming biases related to endogeneity, omitted variables and sample selection, our results...

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Real Convergence, Capital Flows, and Competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe

Belke, Ansgar; Schnabl, Gunther; Zemanek, Holger - 2009

The paper scrutinizes the role of wages and capital flows for competitiveness in the new EU member states in the context of real convergence. For this purpose it extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model by international capital markets. The augmented Balassa-Samuelson model is linked to the...

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Prospective NATO or EU Membership and Institutional Change in Transition Countries

Belke, Ansgar; Bordon, Ingo G.; Melnykovska, Inna; … - 2009

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