A meta-analysis explains the variation in estimated trade effects of technical barriersto trade broadly defined, using available estimates from the empirical international tradeliterature, and accounting for data sampling and methodology differences. Agriculture and foodindustries tend to be...

This paper reviews the stylized facts regarding the levels of human capital investments and the returnsto those investments in developing countries. These returns are substantial and are pervasive acrossdemographic groups. Returns are comparable between men and women and between urban and...

We conduct a comparative analysis of Labor Market Policies and outcomes for the EUmember states, for the period 2000-2005. We document the main differences in LaborMarket Policies across EU members, including new member states after 2004...

People not only obtain utility from actual outcomes but also from the conditionswhich lead to these outcomes. The paper proposes an economic concept of this notion ofprocedural utility. Preferences beyond outcome can be manifold. We distinguish proceduralutility people get from institutions as...

In this paper we model multiple jobholding empirically using a specially collected database for the regionof Magnesia in Greece. We find that although income plays a major deterministic impact on multiplejobholding, other factors have a determining the final outcome of the individual’s choice...

We investigate the pricing of convertible bonds on the French convertible bond market using dailymarket prices for a period of 18 months. Instead of a firm-value model as used in previous studies, weuse a stock-based binomial-tree model with exogenous credit risk that accounts for all...

Wir wollen in diesem Beitrag zeigen, wie notwendig theoretische Erklärungen der betrieblichen Personalpolitik sind und warum sie - trotz aller Notwendigkeit bisher eher selten sind. Weiterhin wollen wir unseren Weg der Suche nach Erklärungen darstellen: die Methode der Modellkonstruktion, der...