Search Results - subject:"Difference in Differences"

German inbound investment, corporate tax planning, and thin-capitalization rules: a difference-in-differences approach

Overesch, Michael; Wamser, Georg - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

This paper investigates tax planning behavior by means of inter-company finance and the effectiveness of fighting back via thin-capitalization rules. A simple theoretical model, which considers the financing decision of a multinational company, is used to obtain empirical implications. The...

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Is the Minimum Wage Efficient? Evidence of the Effects of the UK National Minimum Wage in the Residential Care Homes Sector

Georgiadis, Andreas P. - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2006

, National Minimum Wage, Difference-in-Differences, Insrumental Variables. JEL Classification: J38, J41, J48 … implementation of the diﬀerence in diﬀerences method- ology (Meyer 1995, Angrist and Krueger 1999). In general, the introduction or … increase on care homes from the south coast of England to implement the standard diﬀerence-in-diﬀerences technique and …

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Resource Curse in Reverse: The Coffee Crisis and Armed Conflict in Colombia.

Dube, Oeindrila; Vargas, Juan F. - Department of Economics, Royal Holloway University of London - 2006

Between 1998 and 2003 production increases in Brazil and Vietnam drove down the price of coffee by 73 percent in global markets, triggering the "international coffee crisis". We examine the effect of this exogenous price fall on Colombia's civil war, exploring whether politically-motivated...

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Voting after the bombing: Can terrorist attacks change the outcome of democratic elections?

Montalvo, José Garcia - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2006

effect of the bombing. We exploit this macabre natural experiment to run a difference-in-differences estimation using data on …

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Are All Resources Cursed? Coffee, Oil and Armed Confict in Colombia

Dube, Oeindrila; Vargas, Juan F. - CERAC -CENTRO DE RECURSOS PARA EL ANÁLISIS DE CONFLICTOS- - 2006

The Resource Curse" posits a positive association between the value of natural commodities and civil conflict. In this paper, we suggest that the value-to-violence relationship differs across commodities, and that the factor intensity of production determines whether a rise in the price of a...

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THE LONDON CONGESTION CHARGE AND PROPERTY PRICES: AN EVALUATION OF THE IMPACT ON PROPERTY PRICES INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE ZONE

Zhang, Yi; Shing, Hui-Fai - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Congestion charging in London was introduced in February 2003 to reduce traffic levels in the centre of London. Postcode sector level property prices for sectors both inside and outside the zone are investigated under the premise that the benefits of transport innovation can be captured by...

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Evaluating the foreign ownership wage premium using a difference-indifferences matching approach

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), … - 2006

difference-in-differences propensity score matching estimators. Our results suggest that there is substantial heterogeneity in …

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The other margin : do minimum wages cause working hours adjustments for low-wage workers?

Stewart, Mark B.; Swaffield, Joanna K. - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2006

using difference-in-differences estimators. The estimates using the employer-based New Earnings Surveys indicate that the …

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Evaluating the German 'Mini-Job' Reform Using a True Natural Experiment

Caliendo, Marco; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2006

reform. To account for seasonal effects we additionally use a difference-in-differences strategy. The results show that the …

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ECONOMIC BENEFITS ASSOCIATED WITH THE VISA WAIVER PROGRAM â€“ A DIFFERENCE-INDIFFERENCE APPROACH

Hu, Xiaochu - In: Global Journal of Business Research 7 (2013) 1, pp. 81-89

This study evaluates the economic benefit that the Visa Waiver Program, VWP, brings to the United States, including decreased spending on administration and increased tourism. To capture the net effect of VWP due to increased tourism, this study conducts a semi-experimental evaluation by...

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