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Limitations on De-collectivisation in Central European Agriculture

Bezemer, Dirk J. - 2000

Following formal privatisation of farm land and assets in CentralEurope, the change in agriculturalproduction structures has been both more limited and different thanwas initially expected. In this paper, thetheoretical reasons underlying those expectations are reviewed. Analternative...

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The Use of Spatial Filtering Techniques: The Spatial and Space-time Structure of German Unemployment Data

Patuelli, Roberto; Griffith, Daniel A.; Tiefelsdorf, Michael - 2006

Socio-economic interrelationships among regions can be measured in terms of economic flows, migration, or physical geographically-based measures, such as distance or length of shared areal unit boundaries. In general, proximity and openness tend to favour a similar economic performance among...

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Commuters' Preferences for Fast and Reliable Travel

Koster, Paul; Koster, Hans - 2013

Traffic congestion contributes to longer travel times and increased travel time variability. We account for the dynamic nature of travellers' choices, by deriving a closed-form solution for the costs of travel time variability. The resulting travel delay cost function is linear in the mean...

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Time-varying effects of housing attributes and economic environment on housing prices

Friedrich, Marina; Lin, Yicong; Ramdaras, Pavitram; … - 2023

We propose a flexible framework that allows for the relationship between housing prices and their determinants to vary over time. Our model incorporates housing-specific characteristics and macroeconomic variables, while accounting for a gradual global trend that reflects the unobserved external...

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The Fallacy of 'Job Robbing' : A Meta-Analysis of Estimates of the Effect of Immigration on Employment

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2006

Immigration is a phenomenon of growing significance in many countries. Increasing social tensions are leading to political pressure to limit a further influx of foreign-born persons on the grounds that the absorption capacity of host countries has been exceeded and social cohesion threatened....

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Russian Reforms: the Return of the Peasant?

Bezemer, Dirk J. - 1999

Russian agriculture in transition (1991-1998) was characterised by a production collapse due to aloss in quality and … quantity of acreage, disinvestments, falling purchasingpower, and increasedimports. Neither traditional agriculture nor the …

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Homothetic Efficiency and Test Power: A Non-Parametric Approach

Heufer, Jan; Hjertstrand, Per - 2015

We provide a nonparametric revealed preference approach to demand analysis based on homothetic efficiency … homothetic efficiency of consumption choices. It generalises Heufer's (2013) two-dimensional concept to arbitrary dimensions and …

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Mean and Bold?

Witte, Kristof De; Dijkgraaf, Elbert - 2007

association started with a voluntary benchmarking aimed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the sector. Secondly … efficiency of these two evolutions. In particular, we adapt Free Disposal Hull (FDH) to estimate robust and conditional non …-oriented efficiency estimates. Parametric COLS (Fourier) tests show the robustness of the model with respect to the specification and its …

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On the Timing of Marriage, Cattle and Weather Shocks

Hoogeveen, Hans; van der Klaauw, Bas; van Lomwel, Gijsbert - 2004

In this paper we focus on the timing of marriages of women, whose marriages are associated with bride wealth payments, which are transfers from (the family of) the groom to the bride's family. Unmarried daughters could therefore be considered assets who, at times of need, can be cashed in. We...

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Investment under Risk with Discrete and Continuous Assets

Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem; Vigh, Melinda - 2009

This paper considers a general class of stochastic dynamic choice models with discrete and continuous decision variables. This class contains a variety of models that are useful for modeling intertemporal household decisions under risk. Our examples are drawn from the field of development...

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