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How Efficient is the East German Economy? An Exploration With Micro Data
Funke, Michael; Rahn, Jörg - Institut für Makroökonomie und Wirtschaftspolitik, … - 2000
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency of the East German economy at the firm level using an unbalanced panel over the transition period 1994 to 1998. We adopt a translog stochastic frontier model to estimate technical efficiency in eastern and western Germany. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005823520
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How Efficient is the East German Economy? An Exploration With Micro Data
Funke, Michael; Rahn, Jörg - 2000
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency of the East German economy at the firm level using an unbalanced panel over the transition period 1994 to 1998. We adopt a translog stochastic frontier model to estimate technical efficiency in eastern and western Germany. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010314997
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Eastern Germany: Can't We Be More Optimistic?
Burda, Michael C; Funke, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993
This paper argues that the application of the `2% rule' to the case of Eastern Germany, which implies convergence in …, structural change is likely to increase aggregate productivity further. Second, convergence is also driven by physical and human … of physical investment in Eastern Germany will accelerate convergence. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792325
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How Efficient is the East German Economy? An Exploration With Micro Data
Funke, Michael; Rahn, Jörg - CESifo - 2000
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency of the East German economy at the firm level using an unbalanced panel over the transition period 1994 to 1998. We adopt a translog stochastic frontier model to estimate technical efficiency in eastern and western Germany. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181620
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How efficient is the East German economy? : an exploration with micro data
Funke, Michael; Rahn, Jörg - 2000
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency of the East German economy at the firm level using an unbalanced panel over the transition period 1994 to 1998. We adopt a translog stochastic frontier model to estimate technical efficiency in eastern and western Germany. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009780206
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Taking the Temperature - Forecasting GDP Growth for Mainland China
Curran, Declan; Funke, Michael - Institut für Makroökonomie und Wirtschaftspolitik, … - 2006
We present a new composite leading indicator of economic activity in mainland China, estimated using a dynamic factor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005823523
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Economic Growth across Space and Time: subprovincial Evidence from Mainland China
Curran, Declan; Funke, Michael; Wang, Jue - Institut für Makroökonomie und Wirtschaftspolitik, … - 2007
We present a new composite leading indicator of economic activity in mainland China, estimated using a dynamic factor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005823531
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Volatility Transmission between Renminbi and Asia-Pacific on-shore and off-shore U.S. dollar futures
Colavecchio, Roberta; Funke, Michael - Institut für Makroökonomie und Wirtschaftspolitik, … - 2008
This paper uses multivariate GARCH techniques to study volatility spillovers between the Chinese non-deliverable forward market and seven of its Asia-Pacific counterparts over the period January 1998 to March 2005. To account for the time-variability of conditional correlation, a dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005823534