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The effects of variance breaks on homogenous panel unit root tests
Herwartz, Helmut; Siedenburg, Florian - 2009
Noting that many economic variables display occasional shifts in their second order moments, we investigate the performance of homogenous panel unit root tests in the presence of permanent volatility shifts. It is shown that in this case, panel unit root tests derived under time invariant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887238
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An empirical study on causes and consequences of inflation and inflation uncertainty
Hartmann, Matthias - 2012
Empirical study of causality between inflation, inflation uncertainty and other macroeconomicy quantities. Additionally, the issue of how to measure the unobservable inflation uncertainty is addressed.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009671994
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State dependence in the finance-growth nexus : a functional coefficient approach
Herwartz, Helmut; Yabibal Mulualem Walle - 2013
Noting that "one size does not fit all" in the case of the finance-growth (FG) nexus, a growing body of literature has recently focused on uncovering economic conditions under which financial development could be beneficial (detrimental) to economic development. We look into these conditions by...
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A new approach to bootstrap inference in functional coefficient models
Herwartz, Helmut (contributor); Fang, Xu (contributor) - 2007
We introduce a new, factor based bootstrap approach which is robust under heteroskedastic error terms for inference in functional coefficient models. Modeling the functional coefficient parametrically, the bootstrap approximation of an F statistic is shown to hold asymptotically. In simulation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003477963
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Long-run links among money, prices, and output : world-wide evidence
Herwartz, Helmut; Reimers, Hans-Eggert - 2001
analyse this topic by means of a P-star model. Based on the quantity theory of money, this approach explains inflation via a …. Moreover, parameter restrictions for the long-run relationships implied by the monetary theory are tested. Country specific P … Preisniveau und dem realen Output testet. Weiterhin werden die Parameterrestriktionen, die sich durch die monet¨are Theorie …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011419407
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Does corruption promote emigration? : an empirical examination
Cooray, Arusha; Schneider, Friedrich - 2014
This paper empirically investigates the relationship between corruption and the emigration of those with high, medium and low levels of educational attainment. The empirical results indicate that as corruption increases the emigration rate of those with high levels of educational attainment also...
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Shadow economies around the world : size, causes, and consequences
Schneider, Friedrich; Enste, Dominik - 1999
Using various methods (currency demand, physical input (electricity) method, model approach), which are discussed and criticized, estimates of the size of the shadow economy in 76 developing, transition and OECD-countries are presented. The average size of a shadow economy varies from 12 percent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781691
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Nonlinearity between the shadow economy and level of development
Wu, Dong Frank; Schneider, Friedrich - 2019
This paper is the first attempt to directly explore the long-run nonlinearity of the shadow economy. Using a dataset of 158 countries over the period from 1996 to 2015, our results reveal a robust U-shaped relationship between the shadow economy size and GDP per capita. Our results imply that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022432
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Growth in the shadows : effect of the shadow economy on U.S. economic growth over more than a century
Goel, Rajeev K.; Saunoris, James W.; Schneider, Friedrich - 2017
This paper provides a long-term view by studying the effect of the underground or shadow economy on economic growth in the Unites States over the period 1870 to 2014. Shadow activities might spur or retard economic growth depending on their interactions with the formal sector and impacts on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641560
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Shadow economies around the world : new results for 158 countries over 1991-2015
Medina, Leandro; Schneider, Friedrich - 2017 - Revised version
Using the MIMIC method, this paper is a first attempt to estimate the size of the shadow economy of 158 countries over the period 1991 up to 2015. In addition to performing a variety of robustness tests, this paper explicitly addresses endogeneity concerns to the use of GDP as cause and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646238