Although the process of innovation is a crucial aspect of economic growth, there is less clarity about the measurement of economically useful ideas. Determining the extent to which different types of institutions contribute to the creation of new knowledge is essential for a deeper understanding...

Die geplante Stärkung der Eigenverantwortlichkeit der Länder im Zuge der Föderalismusreformen wird zu einem erhöhten Bedarf an Konjunkturprognosen für Bundesländer führen. Während in Deutschland für die Konjunkturbeobachtung auf gesamtstaatlicher Ebene Quartalsdaten zur Verfügung...

This thesis presents an examination of the importance of Small and MediumEnterprises (SMEs) for economic growth and examines how sensitive employment inSMEs is to business cycle fluctuations in Brazil.The thesis uses different empirical techniques to investigate the role of SMEsin the Brazilian...

Este documento analiza si las inversiones en plantas solares y eólicas generan empleo en el municipio en el que se instalan. Partiendo de una base de datos con información mensual durante 13 años, el trabajo explota la variabilidad temporal de la apertura y el tamaño de las plantas...

Summary of Banco de España Working Paper no. 2307

According to official poverty estimates in Mexico, more than 50 percent of the population was poor in 2016, half of which could not even afford the basic food basket. Whereas most of the existing research analyses poverty focusing exclusively on average income or on the expected probability of...

We estimate willingness to pay (WTP) for a first-order stochastic reduction on the risk of robbery at a large city in Brazil. We develop a structural choice model that nests a process of contingent valuation among non-degenerate lotteries and estimate it by both maximum likelihood and...