Labor and product market regulations affect the unemployment rate of a country without doubt. Econometricians, however, have yet to establish an unequivocal significance of this impact. Model mis-specification, one of the main underlying problems, is overcome by adopting a Bayesian Model...

The number of variables related to long-run economic growth is large compared with the number of countries. Bayesian model averaging is often used to impose parsimony in the cross-country growth regression. The underlying prior is that many of the considered variables need to be excluded from...

In der Ökonomie ist die Kenntnis des monetarisierten Werts von öffentlichen Gütern wie Sicherheit oder sauberer Luft wichtig, um eine Datenbasis für politische Entscheidungen zu haben. Diese Arbeit entwickelt ein ökonometrisches Modell um aus Umfragedaten diese Zahlungsbereitschaft...