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Identifying Reduced-Form Relations with Panel Data

Vollebergh, Herman R.J.; Melenberg, Bertrand; … - 2007

The literature that tests for U-shaped relationships using panel data, such as those between pollution and income or inequality and growth, reports widely divergent (parametric and non-parametric) empirical findings. We explain why lack of identification lies at the root of these differences. To...

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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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The Willingness to Pay for Quality Aspects of Durables : Theory and Application to the Car Market

Mulalic, Ismir - 2011

Conventional hedonic analysis measures willingness to pay for attributes on the basis of marginal fixed costs. We argue that in many cases variable costs are also affected by these attributes and that this should be taken into account. We develop a simple model to show that the marginal...

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A K-Sample Homogeneity Test Based on the Quantification of the p-p Plot : The Harmonic Weighted Mass Index

Hinloopen, Jeroen; Wagenvoort, Rien; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2008

We propose a quantification of the p-p plot that assigns equal weight to all distances between the respective distributions: the surface between the p-p plot and the diagonal. This surface is labelled the Harmonic Weighted Mass (HWM) index. We introduce the diagonal-deviation (d-d) plot that...

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The Causal Links between Aid and Government Expenditures

Marc, Lukasz - 2014

The most recent literature on aid effectiveness finds a positive effect of aid on growth. To the extent that aid goes through the budget, this either reflects an aid-financed increase in government expenditures (quantity effect) or an improvement in the use of government resources as a result of...

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Is There Really a Green Paradox?

Ploeg, Frederick van der; Withagen, Cees - 2015

The Green Paradox states that, in the absence of a tax on CO2 emissions, subsidizing a renewable backstop such as solar or wind energy brings forward the date at which fossil fuels become exhausted and consequently global warming is aggravated. We shed light on this issue by solving a model of...

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Bahadur Representation for the Nonparametric M-Estimator Under Alpha-mixing Dependence

Cheng, Yebin; de Gooijer, Jan G. - 2005

Under the condition that the observations, which come from a high-dimensional population (X,Y), are strongly stationary and strongly-mixing, through using the local linear method, we investigate, in this paper, the strong Bahadur representation of the nonparametric M-estimator for the unknown...

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The Institutional Economics of Stakeholder Consultation : Reducing Implementations Costs Through 'Matching Zones'

den Butter, Frank A. G. - 2011

solution of the (re)distribution problem. These institutionalized structures of consultation are referred to as 'matching zones … 'matching zones'. Specifically, the design of a 'matching zone' should try to adhere to the following principles: there should … matching zone; fairness should be strived for; IC technology should be utilized optimally; and informal contacts and an …

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A Matching Model for the Backhaul Problem

Demirel, Erhan; Ommeren, Jos van; Rietveld, Piet - 2007

result is inconsistent with empirical observations. In this paper, we develop a matching model to address this inconsistency … matching model is numerically applied to the inland navigation shipping market in the Rhine river area in Western-Europe. We …

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The Effect of Parents' Schooling on Child's Schooling : A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis

de Haan, Monique - 2008

This paper uses a relatively new approach to investigate the effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling; a nonparametric bounds analysis based on Manski and Pepper (2000), using the most recent version of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. We start with making no assumptions and then add...

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