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Endogeneity and Non-Response Bias in Treatment Evaluation: Nonparametric Identification of Causal Effects by Instruments

Fricke, Hans; Frölich, Markus; Huber, Martin; Lechner, … - 2015

This paper proposes a nonparametric method for evaluating treatment effects in the presence of both treatment endogeneity and attrition/non-response bias, using two instrumental variables. Making use of a discrete instrument for the treatment and a continuous instrument for...

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Weiter steigende Immobilienpreise, aber keine flächendeckenden Spekulationsblasen

Kholodilin, Konstantin; Michelsen, Claus - In: DIW Wochenbericht 82 (2015) 49, pp. 1164-1173

Der Immobilienmarkt in Deutschland ist, auch im Vergleich zu anderen entwickelten Volkswirtschaften, nach wie vor in einer stabilen Verfassung. Beispielsweise ist die Zinsbindung bei Immobilienkrediten im Durchschnitt recht lang, so dass eine abrupt auftretende Überschuldung vieler Haushalte...

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The potential contribution of innovation systems to socio-ecological transition

Licht, Georg; Peters, Bettina; Köhler, Christian; … - 2014

European countries are currently faced with a variety of challenges, ranging from the new global distribution of economic activity, the diffusion of new, radical technologies to the aging of its population, youth unemployment and the aftermath of the economic and financial crisis. These...

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The Impact of Green Innovation on Employment Growth in Europe

Licht, Georg; Peters, Bettina - 2013

This paper studies the impact of environmental innovation on employment growth using firmlevel data for 16 European countries and the period 2006-2008. It extends the model by Harrison et al (2008) in order to distinguish between employment effects of environmental and non-environmental product...

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Do Green Innovations stimulate Employment? Firm-level Evidence From Germany

Licht, Georg; Peters, Bettina - 2014

This paper studies the impact of environmental innovation on employment growth in the period 2006-2008 using firm-level data for German manufacturing and services. It extends the model by Harrison et al (2008) in order to distinguish between employment effects of environmental and...

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Spatial-Temporal Dimensions of Efficiency among Electric Cooperatives in the Philippines

Lavado, Rouselle F.; Barrios, Erniel B. - 2008

The efficiency of 119 electric cooperatives in the Philippines from 1990 to 2002 is analyzed using a stochastic frontier model augmented with spatial-temporal terms, addressing the underestimation of technical efficiency usually encountered among maximum-likelihood based methods. The model is...

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Subsidy competition for FDI: Fierce or weak?

Havránek, Tomáš - 2009

The objective of this paper is to empirically assess the recently introduced models of subsidy competition based on the classical oligopoly theories, using both cross-sectional and panel data. Three crucial scenarios (including coordination, weak competition, and fierce competition) are tested...

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Job matching across occupational labour markets

Stops, Michael - 2012

This paper refers to an analysis of matching processes in occupational labour markets in terms of classes of jobs that … on the assumption of separate occupational labour markets. This assumption suggests that job search and matching …-sectional dependency lags for regressors to test the hypothesis that job search and matching occur across occupational labour markets. In …

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Forecasting Regional Labour Market Developments Under Spatial Heterogeneity and Spatial Autocorrelation

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter - 2005

Because of heterogeneity across regions, economic policy measures are increasingly targeted at the regional level. As a result, the need for economic forecasts at a sub-national level is rapidly increasing. The data available to compute regional forecasts is usually based on a pseudo-panel that...

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The Use of Spatial Filtering Techniques: The Spatial and Space-time Structure of German Unemployment Data

Patuelli, Roberto; Griffith, Daniel A.; Tiefelsdorf, Michael - 2006

Socio-economic interrelationships among regions can be measured in terms of economic flows, migration, or physical geographically-based measures, such as distance or length of shared areal unit boundaries. In general, proximity and openness tend to favour a similar economic performance among...

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