In this paper we study the dynamics of local employment growth in West Germany from 1980 to 2001. Using dynamic panel techniques, we analyse the timing of the impact of diversity and specialisation, as well as of the human capital structure of local industries. Diversity has a positive effect on...

In this Paper, we investigate the relation between public and private consumption, by constructing a general government spending dataset, by function, for twelve European Union countries. In particular, we split government consumption into two categories. The first category includes defence,...

This Paper uses a large new panel data set to examine the relationship between elections and fiscal policy. We find clear evidence of political business cycles in macroeconomic policy: spending increases before elections while revenues fall, leading to a larger deficit in election years. We also...

Summary From a theoretical point of view the introduction of process and product innovations has contrary impacts on labour demand even at the level of the innovating firm. We present an empirical study of the relationship between labour demand and innovation behaviour using the Ifo Business...

Model uncertainty hampers consensus on the key determinants of economic growth. Some recent cross-country cross-sectional analyses have employed Bayesian Model Averaging to tackle the issue of model uncertainty. This paper extends that approach to panel data models with country-specific fixed...

En este documento se analiza la estimación por máxima verosimilitud de modelos lineales de datos de panel con efectos fijos y regresores endógenos. El estimador máximo verosímil resultante es asintóticamente equivalente a estimadores de panel por el Método Generalizado de Momentos...

Understanding the performance of banks is of the utmost importance due to the impact the sector may have on economic growth and financial stability. Residential mortgage loans constitute a large proportion of the portfolio of many banks and are one of the key assets in the determination of their...