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Foreign ownership and firm survival: First evidence for enterprises in Germany

Wagner, Joachim; Gelübcke, John P. Weche - 2011

This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival for enterprises in Germany using unique tailor-made new representative data that merge information from surveys performed by the Statistical Offices, from administrative data collected by the Tax Authorities and...

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Estimated capital stock values for German manufacturing enterprises covered by the cost structure surveys

Wagner, Joachim - 2010

Information on the capital stock employed in a firm is missing in data sets from official statistics in Germany. This paper presents a method to estimate the capital stock of manufacturing enterprises that are covered by the cost structure survey from German official statistics. It uses data...

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The exporter productivity premium along the productivity distribution: First evidence from a quantile regression approach for fixed effects panel data models

Powell, David; Wagner, Joachim - 2010

An emerging literature on international activities of heterogeneous firms documents that exporting firms are more productive than firms that only sell on the national market. This positive exporter productivity premium shows up in a large number of empirical studies after controlling for...

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A further examination of the export-led growth hypothesis

Dreger, Christian; Herzer, Dierk - 2011

This paper challenges the common view that exports generally contribute more to GDP growth than a pure change in export … volume, as the export-led growth hypothesis predicts. Applying panel cointegration techniques to a production function with … non-export GDP as the dependent variable, we find for a sample of 45 developing countries that: (i) exports have a …

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Incumbency as the major advantage: The electoral advantage for parties of incumbent mayors

Freier, Ronny - 2011

This paper provides empirical evidence on the party incumbency advantage in mayoral elections in Germany. Using a regression discontinuity design on a data set of about 25,000 elections, I estimate a causal incumbency effect of 38-40 percentage points in the probability of winning the next mayor...

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Revisiting the role of education for agricultural productivity

Reimers, Malte; Klasen, Stephan - 2011

indicators. Using a panel of 95 developing and middle-income countries from 1961 to 2002 that includes data on educational …

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Modeling for determinants of human trafficking

Cho, Seo-Young - 2012

This study aims to identify robust push and pull factors of human trafficking. I test for the robustness of 78 push and 67 pull factors suggested in the literature. By employing an extreme bound analysis, running more than two million regressions with all possible combinations of variables for...

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The impact of aid on growth revisited: Do donor motives matter?

Kilby, Christopher; Dreher, Axel - 2009

The typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter and then testing the assumption empirically.

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Do multinationals beat down developing countries' export prices? The impact of FDI on net barter terms of trade

Wacker, Konstantin M. - 2011

on more than 50 developing countries throughout the period 1980 - 2008 using dynamic panel data methods. The results show …

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Questioning ethnic fragmentation's exogeneity: Drivers of changing ethnic boundaries

Kolo, Philipp - 2011

Ethnic fragmentation is a variable increasingly used in the economic literature to explain differences in economic development level, growth or the incidence of conflicts. Nearly all articles have in common that they treat ethnic fragmentation as a static, exogenous fact. Only recently some...

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