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Absorptive capacities and the impact of FDI on economic growth

Farkas, Beatrice - 2012

This paper analyzes the necessary local conditions required for the existence of positive spillovers from multinationals' entry and it consists of a unified study of absorptive capacities. We start from the idea that FDI speeds up the diffusion of technologies across countries. Yet, the question...

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Productivity differences in the European Union : national, regional and spatial effects

Geppert, Kurt; Gornig, Martin; Stephan, Andreas - 2003

Using panel data on European regions and applying Analysis of Covariance, our study provides an empirical assessment of the relative importance of national, regional and spatial factors for explaining variations of productivity. Our analysis shows that initial economic conditions or...

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Can internet ads serve as an indicator of homeownership rates?

Cholodilin, Konstantin Arkadʹevič; Mense, Andreas - 2011

In this paper, we propose an indicator of the homeownership rate based on Internet ads offering the housing for rent and sale. We constructed the HOR estimate using the number of ads in four different markets (flats for rent, flats for sale, houses for rent, and houses for sale). Our HOR...

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Are geese flying by themselves inside China? : An LSTR-SEM approach to income convergence of Chinese counties

Cholodilin, Konstantin Arkadʹevič; Girardin, Eric - 2011

In this paper, we examine beta-convergence of real per-capita income of Chinese counties. We account for both the spatial dependences between counties and the possibility of different convergence regimes. The first feature is captured by the spatial error term, whereas the second one is modeled...

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Respondent behavior in panel studies : a case study of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP)

Schräpler, Jörg-Peter - 2001

. For thi study we use the database of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). The GSOEP is a longitudinal survey … methodological information about the survey methods utilized and the characteristics of the interviewer. The paper will focus on the …

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Respondent behavior in panel studies : a case study for income-nonresponse by means of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP)

Schräpler, Jörg-Peter - 2002

Many validation studies deal with item-nonresponse and measurement error in earnings data. In this paper we explore motives of respondents for the failure to reveal earnings using the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). GSOEP collects socio-economic information of private households in the...

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A nation-wide laboratory : examining trust and trustworthiness by integrating behavioral experiments into representative surveys

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; Rosenbladt, Bernhard von; … - 2002

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 by combining representative survey …

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Estimating fundamental cross-section dispersion from fixed event forecasts

Dovern, Jonas (contributor); Fritsche, Ulrich (contributor) - 2008

survey data that is sampled at a frequency higher than annual and that includes only fixed event forecasts, e.g. expectation … mainly reflects the time varying forecast horizon. We use data from the Survey of Professional Forecasters, which reports … to 0:94) with the true dispersion. -- Survey data ; dispersion ; disagreement ; fixed event forecasts …

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The determinants of debt and (private-) equity financing in young innovative SMEs : evidence from Germany

Schäfer, Dorothea (contributor); Werwatz, Axel (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource], rev

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Knowledge, location, and internationalization : empirical evidence for manufacturing SMEs

Lejpras, Anna - 2012

activities abroad. The empirical analysis employs two probit models based on survey of about 3,000 firms. The results reveal that …

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