In this qualitative sociological and quantitative economic policy paper, we start out from the assumption of a very recent European Commission Background paper on the "Efficiency and effectiveness of social spending", which says the effectiveness of social spending can be defined by the degree...

Starting from Professor Kornai´s assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-termperspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performanceof the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective. Wepresent in a simple form the...

An emerging literature on international activities of heterogeneous firms documents thatexporting firms are more productive than firms that only sell on the national market. Thispositive exporter productivity premium shows up in a large number of empirical studies aftercontrolling for observed...

This paper deals with the relation between the term structure of rents and future spot rents.

We consider the possibility of estimating a Dickey-Fuller regression, constraining the autoregressive parameter to be at most one, and imposing prior knowledge of the sign of the drift parameter. ...

Im Rahmen der Diplomarbeit ist in Zusammenarbeit mit der IHK zu Schwerineine Befragung der Unternehmen des verarbeitenden Gewerbes und derDienstleistungsbranche Westmecklenburgs zum Thema "Analyse der Auslandsaktivitätenvon Unternehmen in Westmecklenburg" durchzuführen.Die Analyse soll dazu...

A growing strand of literature highlights that skilled migration mayfavour growth-enhancing technology transfer, trade and foreign direct in-vestments between the source and the host economies of migrants (net-work effects). We explore a speci…c channel through which the possi-ble "diaspora...

This paper tests whether out-of-sample hedonic value predictions can be improved when a large urban housing market is divided into submarkets.

This paper derives simple closed-form identi…cation regions for the U.S. nonelderlypopulation's prevalence of health insurance coverage in the presence of household reporting errors.The methods extend Horowitz and Manski's (1995) nonparametric analysis of contaminated samplesfor the case that...

The past decades witnessed a broad trend towards flatter organizations with lesshierarchical layers. A reduction of the number of management levels in a corporationcan have both positive and negative effects on firm performance with the neteffect being theoretically unclear ex ante. The present...