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Growth, Foreign Direct Investment and Urban Concentrations: Unbundling Spatial Lags
Poelhekke, Steven; Ploeg, Frederick Van der - CESifo - 2008
Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear that primacy eventually hurts growth performance. Since it is tough to interpret cross-country growth regressions, we provide detailed evidence on the determinants of outward FDI...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765950
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Political versus Economic Institutions in the Growth Process
Flachaire, Emmanuel; García-Peòalosa, Cecilia; Konte, Maty - CESifo - 2011
After a decade of research on the relationship between institutions and growth, scholars in this field seem to be divided. Economic institutions perform well in growth regressions and a body of literature argues that this supports the key importance of institutions for development. Other authors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021242
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The Extension of Clusters: Difference-in-Differences Evidence from the Bavarian State-Wide Cluster Policy
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Kipar, Stefan - CESifo - 2008
If one cluster increases local competitiveness, can politicians, by interlinking clusters, achieve an even better effect at the state level? To answer this question, the paper analyzes the “Cluster Initiative” introduced in 1999 by the Bavarian State Government. The purpose of the initiative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405788
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Who is Afraid of School Choice?
Diem, Andrea; Wolter, Stefan C. - CESifo - 2011
This study uses survey data to investigate attitudes among Swiss voters to different models offering more freedom of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008872214
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A Nation-Wide Laboratory. Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Survey
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; Rosenbladt, Bernhard von; … - CESifo - 2003
survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a … interaction among the participants, with a survey of non-interacting respondents in a smooth and inexpensive way. We illustrate … the power of our approach with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany bycombining representative survey data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766135
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Are the Elderly a Threat to Educational Expenditures?
Cattaneo, Alejandra; Wolter, Stefan C. - CESifo - 2007
expenditures, a causal link is difficult to prove. This paper uses a unique and representative survey of Swiss voters of all age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405879
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Determinants of Survival of Newly Created SMEs in the Brazilian Manufacturing: An Econometric Study
Facanha, Luis Otávio; Resende, Marcelo; Cardoso, Vicente - CESifo - 2012
The paper investigates the survival of newly created small and medium enterprises in Brazilian manufacturing taking as reference the 1996-2005 period. The econometric analysis relies on time-varying version of the proportional hazard rate model that controls for unobserved heterogeneity. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645649
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Drivers and Obstacles to Banking SMEs: The Role of Competition and the Institutional Framework
Torre, Augusto de la; Pería, María Soledad Martínez; … - CESifo - 2009
institutional framework play a role in banks’ decisions. To do so, we use a unique survey of banks in Argentina and Chile, two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979421
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Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA
Hanushek, Eric A.; Link, Susanne; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2011
Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went in opposite directions over the past decade and because prior evidence is inconclusive. We suggest that autonomy may be conducive to student achievement in well-developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371359
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Behind the Scenes of the Telecommunications Miracle: An Empirical Analysis of the Indian Market
Biancini, Sara - CESifo - 2010
We analyze the demand and supply characteristics of the Indian telecommunications market, in order to assess the potential effectiveness of universal access policies in developing countries. We provide some empirical evidence on the supply and demand characteristics, using a small...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833905