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Doing More for Less? New Evidence on Lobbying and Government Contracts
Agca, Senay - 2019
Why do firms lobby? This paper exploits the unanticipated sequestration of federal budget accounts in March 2013 that reduced the availability of government funds disbursed through procurement contracts to shed light on this question. Following this event, firms with little or no prior exposure...
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Firms’ Response to Macroeconomic Estimation Errors
Binz, Oliver - 2020
Initial Gross Domestic Product (GDP) announcements are important economic signals that convey information on the state of the economy but contain substantial estimation error. We investigate how GDP estimation errors affect firms' real decisions and profitability. Consistent with theoretical...
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Accounting for Cloud Computing in the National Accounts
Baer, Andrew - 2020
Digitalization and the innovative use of digital technologies is changing the way we work, learn, communicate, buy and sell products. One emerging digital technology of growing importance is cloud computing. More and more businesses, governments and households are purchasing hardware and...
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Is accounting useful for forecasting gdp growth? : a machine learning perspective
Datar, Srikant M.; Jain, Apurv; Wang, Charles C. Y.; … - 2021
We provide a comprehensive examination of whether, to what extent, and which accounting variables are useful for … the prediction models. For near-term (current and next-quarter) GDP growth, accounting does not improve the out …-of-sample accuracy of predictions because the professional forecasters' predictions are relatively efficient. Accounting's predictive …
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Accounting practices regarding merchandise imports on one’s own account, on short-term credit
BUDACIA, Lucian Constantin Gabriel; ROSU-HAMZESCU, Niculina - In: Annals of University of Craiova - Economic Sciences Series 2 (2008) 36, pp. 885-896
The paper presents in the first part theoretical aspects regarding merchandise imports on one’s own account, on short term trade credit. In the second part it approaches a practical application of accounts related to merchandise imports on one’s own account, on short term trade credit....
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Implausible large differences in the sizes of underground economies in highly developed European countries? A comparison of different estimation methods
Schneider, Friedrich - 2017
In this paper, first, the MIMIC estimation method is described and criticized and due to a double counting problem a correction is suggested. Second, the measurement methods used for National Accounts Statistics - the discrepancy method and two new micro survey methods - are described and a...
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Do Different Estimation Methods Lead to Implausible Differences in the Size of the Non-Observed or Shadow Economies? A Preliminary Answer
Schneider, Friedrich - 2021
In this paper, first, six micro (4) and macro (2) estimation approaches are briefly described; they are the National Accounts Statistics discrepancy method and two new micro survey methods, a third one using a combination of company manager surveys and their knowledge to calibrate the size of the...
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Implausible Large Differences in the Sizes of Underground Economies in Highly Developed European Countries? A Comparison of Different Estimation Methods
Schneider, Friedrich - 2017
In this paper, first, the MIMIC estimation method is described and criticized and due to a double counting problem a correction is suggested. Second, the measurement methods used for National Accounts Statistics – the discrepancy method and two new micro survey methods – are described and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698689
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Monthly Industrial Output in China Since 1983
Holz, Carsten A. - 2013
Monthly economic indicators are used for a variety of purposes, from studying business cycles to determining economic policy and making informed business decisions. China's published monthly industrial output statistics could hardly be more confusing, with changes in variables, in coverage, in...
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Re-Estimating China's Underestimated Consumption
Zhang, Jun - 2013
China's consumption rate is widely believed to be too low. In this paper, we show that official statistics have significantly underestimated Chinese household consumption. First, housing consumption is grossly underestimated due to the construction cost-based method. Second, a lot of private...
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