What happens to demand if a magazine launches a website? This question is empirically analyzed for the German women …

demand curves: the demand for the print medium and the demand for advertising space. Publicly available data on German women …?s magazines observed between 1998 and 2001 are used in the GMM estimation. Main findings are that my estimated marginals cost …: magazines, cost estimation, GMM estimation, website provision …

divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we … find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation … in the effect of happiness gaps: couples are more likely to break-up when the difference in life satisfaction is …

constraints implied by political liberalism. We find that freedom of choice restricts sufficiency to rather wealthy societies and …

We analyse the effect of IMF and World Bank policies on the composite index of economic freedom by Gwartney et al …, we find that the number of projects has a positive impact on overall economic freedom, while the effect of the amount of … relationship between credits and programs of the IMF and economic freedom. …

productivity using firm level data from Pakistan. I split my sample into rural and urban regions to capture the effect of regional … significantly related to firm level productivity in manufacturing industries in Pakistan. However, these results hold for urban …

This paper focuses on finding starting-values for maximum likelihood estimation of Vector STAR models. Based on a Monte …