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This study estimates the establishment-level employment effects of investment grants in Germany. In addition to the … on the magnitude of the effect. We apply a modification of Heckman’s matching and difference-in-differences approach to … consider time-varying treatment and different treatment durations. Our results suggest that investment grants positively impact …
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This study estimates the firm-level employment effects of investment grants in Germany. In addition to the average … combine a staggered difference-in-differences approach that explicitly models variations in treatment timing with a matching … procedure at the cohort level. The findings reveal a positive effect of investment grants on employment development in the full …
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in treatment timing with a ties matching at the cohort level. We observe a positive effect of investment grants on …This study estimates the establishment-level employment effects of investment grants in Germany. In addition to the …
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The paper estimates the plant level employment effects of investment subsidies in one of the most strongly subsidized … characteristics and the economic environment. Modifying the standard matching and difference-in-difference approach, we develop a new … absolute effects to the amount of the subsidy paid. The results suggest that investment subsidies have a positive influence on …
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The paper presents a modification of the matching and difference-in-differences approach of Heckman et al. (1998) for …
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applied to a business firm's dynamic problem of determining its optimum level of investment activity, when the longevity (life … span) of the investment is itself a variable determined by the level of investment. Usually, the longevity of an investment … is taken as given and fixed. Here, the level of investment activity has a dual effect, determining not only the longevity …
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This Article offers an innovative approach to settling disputes about interjurisdictional externalities. Focusing attention on the negative spillover effects of local government zoning decisions on neighboring jurisdictions, the Article develops a monetary compensation regime intended to enrich...
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After the Global Financial Crisis a controversial rush to fiscal austerity followed in many countries. Yet research on the effects of austerity on macroeconomic aggregates was and still is unsettled, mired by the difficulty of identifying multipliers from observational data. This paper...
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We propose and implement a new method to estimate treatment effects in settings where individuals need to be in a certain state (e.g. unemployment) to be eligible for a treatment, treatments may commence at different points in time, and the outcome of interest is realized after the individual...
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Structural vector-autoregressive models are potentially very useful tools for guiding both macro- and microeconomic policy. In this paper, we present a recently developed method for exploiting non-Gaussianity in the data for estimating such models, with the aim of capturing the causal structure...
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