This paper considers a model of spatial allocation of investment capital under uncertainty. We demonstrate that the spatial concentration of economic activity depends upon properties of risk preferences deeper than risk aversion. The degree of so-called relative prudence unambiguously decides...

We propose a new class of state space models for longitudinal discrete response data where the observation equation is specified in an additive form involving both deterministic and random linear predictors. These models allow us to explicitly address the effects of trend, seasonal or other...

Das Statistische Bundesamt entwickelt sich zu einem digitalen, nutzerorientierten und innovativen Informationsdienstleister weiter. Dazu gehören auch neue Produkte, die Informationen nutzungsfreundlich bereitstellen - wie der Gehaltsvergleich. Diese interaktive Webanwendung ermöglicht es den...

Das Statistische Bundesamt entwickelt sich zu einem digitalen, nutzerorientierten und innovativen Informationsdienstleister weiter. Dazu gehören auch neue Produkte, die Informationen nutzungsfreundlich bereitstellen - wie der Gehaltsvergleich. Diese interaktive Webanwendung ermöglicht es den...

This paper assesses the role of distance in professional team sports, taking the example of football (soccer). We argue that a team's performance in terms of scored and conceded goals decreases with the distance to the foreign playing venue. To test this hypothesis empirically, we investigate...

This paper offers two innovations for empirical growth research. First, the paper discusses principal components augmented regressions to take into account all available information in well-behaved regressions. Second, the paper proposes a frequentist model averaging framework as an alternative...