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Ziel der Analyse ist es, für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland die Variation räumlich und sektoral disaggregierter Wachstumsraten von Output, Beschäftigung und Produktivität in einen regionalen und einen branchenspezifischen Anteil aufzuspalten und deren Bedeutung zu quantifizieren. Es zeigt...
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This paper presents the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) as a technique of parameter estimation. Besides the general … framework emphasis is put on the estimation of the weighting matrix and testing methods. The application of the GMM is … illustrated by means of parameter estimation of the stochastic short term interest rate process. …
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Information economics has emerged as the primary theoretical lens for framing financing decisions in firm R&D investment. Successful outcomes of R&D projects are either ex-ante impossible to predict or the information is asymmetrically distributed between inventors and investors. As a result,...
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Information economics has emerged as the primary theoretical lens for framing financing decisions in firm R&D investment. Successful outcomes of R&D projects are either ex-ante impossible to predict or the information is asymmetrically distributed between inventors and investors. As a result,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306611
To test if safety nets create moral hazard in the banking industry, we develop a simultaneous structural two-equations model that specifies the probability of a bailout and banks' risk taking.We identify the effect of expected bailout probabilities on risk taking using exclusion restrictions...
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At the Uruguay Round, tariff rate quotas (TRQs) were intended to serve two purposes: first, to prevent that tariffication would lead – at least on the short term – to a deterioration of market access and second, to create new, minimum market access. The since then observed fill rates do not...
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In many industrialized countries, the grocery-retailing sector exhibits a strong and increasing market concentration. Hence, it is important to understand retail pricing for many questions related to market power in the marketing chain and to agricultural and food policies. We analyze...
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Building on the right-to-manage model of collective bargaining, this paper tries to infer union power from the observed results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany. The results show that union power was relatively...
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Building on the right-to-manage model of collective bargaining, this paper tries to infer union power from the observed results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany. The results show that union power was relatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306815
This paper examines three possible approaches to pro-poor growth. The first one assumes that the poverty line remains constant in real terms over time. The second perspective examines the case where the poverty line is equal to half the median of the income distribution but assumes that such a...
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