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Multi-Market Competition and Coordination in Games

Ganslandt, Mattias - 1997

This thesis consists of one essay in industrial organization and two essays in non-cooperative game theory.

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Teaching empirical finance courses: A project on portfolio management

Morley, Bruce - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 4 (2016) 1, pp. 1-8

approach enables the students to apply many of the techniques learnt on this course and other courses such as econometrics, to …

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Rebuttal of "On Nonparametric Identification of Treatment Effects in Duration Models"

Abbring, Jaap H.; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2016

In their IZA Discussion Paper 10247, Johansson and Lee claim that the main result (Proposition 3) in Abbring and Van den Berg (2003b) does not hold. We show that their claim is incorrect. At a certain point within their line of reasoning, they make a rather basic error while transforming one...

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On the Reception of Haavelmo's Econometric Thought

Hoover, Kevin D. - 2012

Trygve Haavelmo's The Probability Approach in Econometrics (1944) has been widely regarded as the foundation document … of modern econometrics. Nevertheless, its significance has been interpreted in widely different ways. Some modern … techniques and a close reading of econometrics articles and textbooks to trace the way in which the economics profession received …

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Becoming Applied: The Transformation of Economics after 1970

Backhouse, Roger E.; Cherrier, Beatrice - 2014

Abstract: This paper conjectures that economics has changed profoundly since the 1970s and that these changes involve a new understanding of the relationship between theoretical and applied work. Drawing on an analysis of John Bates Clark medal winners, it is suggested that the discipline became...

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The Empirical Economist's Toolkit: From Models to Methods

Panhans, Matthew T.; Singleton, John D. - 2015

wide application of these methods as a \credibility revolution" in econometrics that has nally provided persuasive answers … crisis in econometrics. …

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Would You Marry Me? The Effects of Marriage on German Couples' Allocation of Time

Lahga, Abdel-Rahmen El; Moreau, Nicolas - 2007

We evaluate the effects of the transition from cohabitation to marriage on household domestic and market work hours using a sample of working couples. For this purpose we use the 21 first waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSEOP). We adapt the estimator introduced by Semykina and...

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Voluntary turnover: What we measure and what it (really) means

Will, Matthias Georg - 2017

In this paper, we run regression analyses to explain voluntary turnover intentions with data from more than 5,000 employees and with about 250 explanatory variables. The findings of our multi-factor approach highlight the fact that previous empirical research might have over-estimated the impact...

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Undergraduate Econometrics Instruction: Through Our Classes, Darkly

Angrist, Joshua; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2017

like wages or GDP growth. Applied econometrics has since evolved to prioritize the estimation of specific causal effects …

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The Empirics of Regulatory Reforms Proxied by Categorical Variables: Recent Findings and Methodological Issues

Bastianin, Andrea; Castelnovo, Paolo; Florio, Massimo - 2017

Some regulatory reforms do not change just a specific signal that can be represented by a quantitative continuous variable, such as a tax rate, a price cap, or an emission threshold. The standard theory of reform in applied welfare economics (going back to contributions by e.g. Ramsey, Samuelson...

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