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High growth entrepreneurs, public policies and economic growth
Stam, Erik; Suddle, Kashifa; Hessels, S. Jolanda A.; … - 2007
This paper investigates whether the presence of ambitious entrepreneurs is a more important determinant of national economic growth than entrepreneurial activity in general. We use data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor to test the extent to which high growth ambitions of entrepreneurs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276971
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The benefits of being economics professor A (and not Z)
van Praag, C. Mirjam; van Praag, Bernard M. S. - 2007
Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been a first author more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277000
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A high-low model of daily stock price ranges
Cheung, Yan-Leung; Cheung, Yin-Wong; Wan, Alan Tze Kin - 2008
We observe that daily highs and lows of stock prices do not diverge over time and, hence, adopt the cointegration concept and the related vector error correction model (VECM) to model the daily high, the daily low, and the associated daily range data. The in-sample results attest the importance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277079
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Active labor market policy evaluations: a meta-analysis
Card, David Edward; Kluve, Jochen; Weber, Andrea Maria - 2009
This paper presents a meta-analysis of recent microeconometric evaluations of active labor market policies. Our sample consists of 199 program estimates drawn from 97 studies conducted between 1995 and 2007. In about one-half of these cases we have both a short-term impact estimate (for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277080
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Active Labor Market Policy Evaluations – A Meta-analysis
Card, David Edward; Kluve, Jochen; Weber, Andrea Maria - 2009
This paper presents a meta-analysis of recent microeconometric evaluations of active labor market policies. Our sample consists of 199 program estimates drawn from 97 studies conducted between 1995 and 2007. In about one-half of these cases we have both a short-term impact estimate (for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277082
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Active labor market policy evaluations: a meta-analysis
Card, David Edward; Kluve, Jochen; Weber, Andrea Maria - 2009
This paper presents a meta-analysis of recent microeconometric evaluations of active labor market policies. Our sample consists of 199 program estimates drawn from 97 studies conducted between 1995 and 2007. In about one-half of these cases we have both a short-term impact estimate (for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277124
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Inequality and union membership: the impact of relative earnings position and inequality attitudes
Checchi, Daniele; Visser, Jelle; van de Werfhorst, Herman G. - 2007
the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) covering the period 1985-2002, we initially examine the impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277204
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The effects of taxation on the location decision of multinational firms: M&A vs. Greenfield investments
Hebous, Shafik; Ruf, Martin; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2010
In this study, we estimate the impacts of differences in international tax rates on the probability of choosing a … location for an affiliate of a multinational firm. In particular, we distinguish between the tax sensitivity of Greenfield and … M&A investments are less sensitive to differences in tax rates than location decisions of Greenfield investments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277219
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Shooting on a moving target : explaining European Bank rates during the interwar period
Wandschneider, Kirsten; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2009
pressures? What was the optimal level of international policy coordination? We use weekly data over the period 1925-1936 to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277246
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Better to give than to receive: predictive directional measurement of volatility spillovers
Diebold, Francis X.; Yilmaz, Kamil - 2010
Using a generalized vector autoregressive framework in which forecast-error variance decompositions are invariant to variable ordering, we propose measures of both total and directional volatility spillovers. We use our methods to characterize daily volatility spillovers across U.S. stock, bond,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277262