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On the Extent of Economic Integration: A Comparison of EU Countries and US States

Bowen, Harry P.; Munandar, Haris; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2010

European economic integration is commonly believed to be incomplete, and that further reforms are needed. In this context, the union of U.S. states is considered the benchmark of complete economic integration and is often the basis for comparison regarding the extent of E.U economic integration....

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Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances

Alfaro, Laura; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Volosovych, Vadym - 2011

We decompose capital flows - both debt and equity - into public and private components and study their relationship with productivity growth. This exercise reveals that international capital flows are mainly shaped by government decisions and sovereign to sovereign transactions. Specifically, we...

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ICT and Substitution between Out-of-home and At-home Work; the Importance of Timing

de Graaff, Thomas; Rietveld, Piet - 2003

This paper investigates the determinants of at home and out-of-home labor supply in the Netherlands in the 199s …

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Bayesian Combinations of Stock Price Predictions with an Application to the Amsterdam Exchange Index

Billio, Monica - 2012

We summarize the general combination approach by Billio et al. [2010]. In the combination model the weights follow logistic auto-regressive processes, change over time and their dynamics are possible driven by the past forecasting performances of the predictive densities. For illustrative...

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Long-Run vs. Short-Run Perspectives on Consumer Scheduling : Evidence from a Revealed-Preference Experiment Among Peak-Hour Road Commuters

Peer, Stefanie - 2011

Theoretical and empirical studies of consumer scheduling behavior in commuting, and the associated valuation of time and schedule delays usually ignore that consumers have more exibility to adjust their schedule in the longer run than in the shorter run, implying that also these valuations may...

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Vignette Equivalence and Response Consistency : The Case of Job Satisfaction

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2011

We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by...

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Economic Impacts of Cultural Diversity in the Netherlands : Productivity, Utility, and Sorting

Bakens, Jessie - 2012

This paper identifies the role of cultural diversity in explaining spatial disparities in wages and housing prices across Dutch cities, using unique individual panel data of home owners. We distinguish between the effects of interactions-based productivity, consumption amenities and sorting of...

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Modeling Migration Dynamics of Immigrants : The Case of the Netherlands

Bijwaard, Govert E. - 2008

Netherlands. We show how we can allow for both permanent and temporary migrants. Based on data from Statistics Netherlands we … analyze both the departure and the return from abroad for recent non-Dutch immigrants to The Netherlands. Results disclose … both models, for departure and returning, provides the probability that a specific migrant ends-up in The Netherlands. It …

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Deregulating Sunday Shop Policies

Dijkgraaf, Elbert - 2006

Sunday shop opening is deregulated to the municipal level in the Netherlands. Despite positive effects on economic …

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Forecasting Aggregate Productivity Using Information from Firm-Level Data

Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2017

This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity to build times-series components that capture the...

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