Showing 1 - 10 of 777
In 1978, Roger Koenker and Gilbert Bassett, Jr. introduced a new econometric estimation method and entitled it quantile regression. Since then, many subsequent authors have elaborated and extended the underlying theoretical framework. Other contributions have successfully applied the procedure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475352
Measuring the contribution of different markets to the price discovery process of a common asset has been the subject of many research studies in the last decade. In particular the newly developed derivatives markets have given rise to an increasing number of empirical studies examining the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475355
environmental crime rates. With a view to validating the economic theory of crime, there is clear evidence that the "calculus of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476185
Germany has been an immigration country for more than 30 years now, although many politicians claim the opposite and many people in Germany are inclined to agree with their assessment. However, it is the actual experience with immigration, and not what people would like to experience, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476209
In an increasingly competitive environment, firms have to optimally adjust both their allocation of input factors and their technology portfolio. The latter determines economies of scope and scale in future research and production. The aim of this dissertation is to achieve better insight into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009460747
Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009432547
Background: Health-care institutions have looked to business for models to respond to the requirement for reform. This has changed the perspective of institutions that were founded on charitable principles, and managed with liberal employment policies and deficit budgeting. Using lesions from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447213
. The second section of my paper provides an academic review of the literature, focusing on econometric theory that tests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429056
This dissertation consists of three stand-alone research papers, all of which treat the topic of estimation and dynamic modelling of multivariate volatility by employing the information contained in high-frequency data, which became available in the last 10 - 15 years. The main focus of all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471603
This dissertation introduces three novel approaches for the econometric evaluation of heterogeneous treatment effects. The proposed methods consider the effects of a binary treatment on different characteristics of the outcome distribution.Section 1 proposes an estimation method for various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471606