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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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World Market Access of Emerging-Market Firms: The Role of Foreign Ownership and Access to External Finance
Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - CESifo - 2013
This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign ownership and access to external finance affect the likelihood of manufacturers in emerging markets to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to control for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010681216
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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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Ethnic Favoritism: An Axiom of Politics?
Luca, Giacomo De; Hodler, Roland; Raschky, Paul A.; … - CESifo - 2015
We investigate the prevalence and determinants of ethnic favoritism, i.e., preferential public policies targeted at the political leader’s ethnic group. We construct a panel dataset of 2,022 ethnographic regions from 139 countries with annual observations from 1992 to 2012, and use nighttime...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167133
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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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Social Preferences and Portfolio Choice
Riedl, Arno; Smeets, Paul - CESifo - 2013
and link them to behavior in a controlled experiment and to survey responses. We show that social preferences rather than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734704
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What You Ask is What You Get: Willingness-to-Pay for a QALY in Germany
Ahlert, Marlies; Breyer, Friedrich; Schwettmann, Lars - CESifo - 2013
We report results of a survey of a representative sample of the German population in which respondents were asked in … survey exactly copied the setting (online survey) and the questionnaire used in the EuroVaQ project, in the second version … the hypothetical nature of the questions was emphasized more strongly, and the survey was conducted as a computer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010659184
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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