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GPD-linked Bonds as a Financing Tool for Developing Countries and Emerging Markets
Schröder, Michael; Heinemann, Friedrich; Kruse, Susanne; … - 2004
The paper examines the applicability of GDP-linked bonds for the financing of developing countries and emerging markets. GDP-linked bonds are bonds of which the coupon and/or redemption payments are tied to the GDP of the issuing country. The study encompasses a detailed empirical analysis of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297388
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Map Intersection Based Merging Schemes for Administrative Data Sources and an Application to Germany
Arntz, Melanie; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2005
In many situations the applied researcher wants to combine different data sources without knowing the exact link and merging rule. This paper introduces a theoretical framework how two different regional administrative data sources can be merged. It presents different merging schemes based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297429
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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations
Zwick, Thomas - 2000
Employee resistance against innovations is a virulent phenomenon and there is a broad theoretical literature on its determinants. The empirical evidence is scarce, however, and mainly provides descriptive evidence on the incidence of the phenomenon and concentrates on the effectiveness of change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297711
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Remittances and public finances: Evidence from oil-price shocks
Asatryan, Zareh; Bittschi, Benjamin; Doerrenberg, Philipp - 2016
We study the effect of inflowing remittances - a major source of capital for many countries - on tax-revenues and tax-policy. Instrumenting remittances with changes in the oil-price interacted with a country's distance to oil-producing countries, we find that remittances have a large positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442041
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Anti-corruption campaign in China: An empirical investigation
Yang, Li; Milanović, Branko; Lin, Yaoqi - 2023
database of officials who have been found guilty of corruption in China in the period 2012-21 with their personal … characteristics and the amount of embezzled funds. We use it to investigate the correlates of corruption, estimate the effects of … corruption on inequality, and find the expected increase in officials' income due to corruption and the gain in income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014446323
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Finding starting-values for maximum likelihood estimation of vector STAR models
Schleer, Frauke - 2013
This paper focuses on finding starting-values for maximum likelihood estimation of Vector STAR models. Based on a Monte …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324135
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Considerations on partially identified regression models
Cerquera, Daniel; Laisney, François; Ullrich, Hannes - 2012
one covariate is only interval-measured, we offer several contributions. Manski and Tamer (2002) propose two estimation … simple shortcut for estimation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308487
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Finding starting-values for maximum likelihood estimation of vector STAR models
Schleer, Frauke - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
This paper focuses on finding starting-values for maximum likelihood estimation of Vector STAR models. Based on a Monte …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957614
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Considerations on partially identified regression models
Cerquera, Daniel; Laisney, François; Ullrich, Hannes - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
one covariate is only interval-measured, we offer several contributions. Manski and Tamer (2002) propose two estimation … simple shortcut for estimation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957638
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Map Intersection Based Merging Schemes for Administrative Data Sources and an Application to Germany
Arntz, Melanie; Wilke, Ralf A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
In many situations the applied researcher wants to combine different data sources without knowing the exact link and merging rule. This paper introduces a theoretical framework how two different regional administrative data sources can be merged. It presents different merging schemes based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097943