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A comparison of dynamic panel data estimators : Monte Carlo evidence and an application to the investment function
Behr, Andreas - 2003
sample properties of the GMM-methods. In the case of endogenous predetermined regressors, the system-estimator proposed by … Blundell and Bond is unbiased and most efficient, while direct bias corrected estimators perform similar to the GMM … die bekannt günstigen Eigenschaften von GMM-Schätzern bei großer Beobachtungszahl wider. Im Falle endogener …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431996
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Topography, borders, and trade across Europe
Frensch, Richard; Fidrmuc, Jarko; Rindler, Michael - 2021
The gravity literature has focused on distance, borders and contiguity to measure geography's impact on trade. We add value to this literature in terms of data, method and assessment of effects. First, we expand existing geographical databases by adding topographical features. We supply novel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012668870
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Technological innovation and the distribution of employment growth : a firm-level analysis
Calvino, Flavio - 2016
This work studies the firm-level relationship between different types of innovative activities and employment growth rates. Improving on previous investigations on the topic, it combines a dynamic panel analysis of the effects of different types of product and process innovation on employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011554086
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Within and between panel cointegration in the German regional output-trade-FDI nexus
Mitze, Timo - 2010 - First version: May 2010; this version: October 2010
For spatial data with a sufficiently long time dimension, the concept of global cointegration has been recently included in the econometrics research agenda. Global cointegration arises when non-stationary time series are cointegrated both within and between spatial units. In this paper, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535894
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Within and between panel cointegration in the German regional output-trade-FDI nexus
Mitze, Timo - 2010
For spatial data with a sufficiently long time dimension, the concept of global cointegration has been recently included in the econometrics research agenda. Global cointegration arises when non-stationary time series are cointegrated both within and between spatial units. In this paper, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008934338
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International R&D spillovers in transition countries : the impact of trade and foreign direct investment
Krammer, Marius Sorin (contributor) - 2008
While the economic theory predicts that developing countries will gain the most from technology spillovers, there have been only a few analyses looking at this question empirically. The present study focuses on a panel of 27 transition and 20 Western European countries between 1990 and 2006 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656226
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Firm heterogeneity, industry characteristics and types of FDI : the case of German FDI in the Czech Republic
Görg, Holger; Mühlen, Henning; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2009
In addition to firm and industry characteristics, the heterogeneity of foreign direct investment (FDI) has to be taken into account when analyzing the determinants of outward FDI. We combine two firm-specific datasets on German firms with subsidiaries and joint ventures in the Czech Republic,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872043
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Issues in the estimation of dynamic happiness models : a Comment on "Does childhood predict adult life satisfaction?"
Piper, Alan T.; Pugh, Geoff - 2015
employment of General Method of Moments (GMM) estimation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011338194
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Optimism, pessimism and life satisfaction : an empirical investigation
Piper, Alan T. - 2019 - This version: February 2019
This empirical investigation into life satisfaction, using nationally representative German panel data, finds a substantial association with an individual's thoughts about the future, whether they are optimistic or pessimistic about it. Furthermore, including individuals' optimism and pessimism...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011986907
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Zukunftsangst! : fear of (and hope for) the future and its impact on life satisfaction
Piper, Alan - 2014
The thoughts that an individual has about the future contribute substantially to their life satisfaction in a positive or negative direction. This is a result found via five different methods, some of which control for personality and disposition and the potential endogeneity of thoughts and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462152