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Trade, climate policy and carbon leakage : theory and empirical evidence

Aichele, Rahel - 2013

This volume was prepared by Rahel Aichele while she was working at the ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2012 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. The chapters investigate how, in a...

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Information, Consumer Choice and Firm Strategy in an Experience Good Market

Chen, Yan - 2008

This paper models how consumers make brand choice when they have limited information. In an experience good market with frequent product entry and exit, consumers face two types of information problems: first, they have limited information about product existence; second, even if they know a...

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Econometrics issues in forward-looking monetary models

Mavroeidis, Sophocles; Hendry, David - 2002

inflation dynamics. In this thesis, we address the issues of identification which have been overlooked due to the incompleteness … inference under weak identification, pertaining to situations in which only functions of the parameters of interest are …-modelled variables cannot be weakly exogenous for the parameters of interest, and that they are informative about the identification and …

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Network effects, compatibility, and adoption of standards

Grajek, Michał - 2005

best of our knowledge, this is the first model that facilitates the identification in the case of direct network effects …

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Matching DSGE models to data with applications to fiscal and robust monetary policy

Kriwoluzky, Alexander - 2009

the major issue a researcher has to deal with when working with a VAR model and a DSGE model: the identification of the …

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UNCERTAINTY, IDENTIFICATION, AND PRIVACY: EXPERIMENTS IN INDIVIDUAL DECISION-MAKING

Rivenbark, David - 2011

The alleged privacy paradox states that individuals report high values for personal privacy, while at the same time they report behavior that contradicts a high privacy value. This is a misconception. Reported privacy behaviors are explained by asymmetric subjective beliefs. Beliefs may or may...

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Essays on international trade and development

Heid, Benedikt - 2014

This volume was prepared by Benedikt Heid while he was working at the ifo Institute and the University of Bayreuth. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained...

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Gravity model applications and macroeconomic perspectives

Gröschl, Jasmin Katrin - 2013

This dissertation was prepared by Jasmin Gröschl and is a collection of five self-contained empirical essays. They aim at contributing to the understanding of non-standard determinants of trade and migration: historical and cultural characteristics in the United States (Chapter 1),...

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Wohlstand und Gesundheit : neuere empirische Resultate und theoretische Erklärungsversuche

Hupfeld, Stefan - 2004

Diese Arbeit umfasst eine Darstellung des Grossman-Modells und der Akkumulation von Gesundheitskapital. Es werden ältere empirische Untersuchungen (Wagstaff) vorgestellt und aus methodischer Sicht kritisiert, verbesserte ökonometrische Methoden vorgeschlagen und deren Anwendung in aktuellen...

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Accrual Noise Ratio as a Measure of Accrual Reliability

Njoroge, Kenneth - 2009

I develop an empirical model that estimates a firm-specific accrual noise ratio (ANR), an operational and statistically grounded measure of accrual reliability, and test the measure's construct validity. The model allows accrual reliability to vary across firms, which is particularly important...

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