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Opium for the Masses: How Foreign Free Media Can Stabilize Authoritarian Regimes

Kern, Holger; Hainmueller, Jens - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

A common claim in the democratization literature is that foreign free media undermine authoritarian rule. No reliable micro-level evidence on this topic exists, however, since independent survey research is rarely possible in authoritarian regimes and self-selection into media consumption...

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IMPACT OF SIBSHIP SIZE, BIRTH ORDER, AND SEX COMPOSITION ON SCHOOL ENROLLMENT IN URBAN TURKEY

Kırdar, Murat G.; Dayıoğlu, Meltem; Tansel, Aysıt - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

the children. We utilize an instrumental variables estimation method in order to address parents’ joint fertility and …

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Concept of offshore Financial Centers; In Search of An Operational Definition

Zoromé, Ahmed - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

This paper proposes a new definition of Offshore Financial Centers (OFCs) and develops a statistical method to differentiate between OFCs and non-OFCs using data from the Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey (CPIS), the International Investment Position (IIP), and the balance of payments. The...

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Financing of Global Imbalances

Punzi, Maria Teresa; Walker, W. Christopher - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

-2006 using adjusted U.S. Treasury International Capital Flow (TIC) data. Panel vector autoregression and instrumental variables …

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Informality and Regulations; What Drives Firm Growth?

Dabla-Norris, Era; Inchauste, Gabriela - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

The paper relies on a rich firm-level data set on transition economies to examine the role of informality as an important channel through which regulatory and other policy constraints affect firm growth. We find that firms reduce their formal operations with a higher tax and regulatory burden,...

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Three Essays in Applied International and Labour Economics

Jäckle, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Chapter 1: Going Multinational: What are the effects on home market performance? A number of recent studies find evidence for the existence of a persistent performance gap between multinational enterprises (MNE) and their domestic competitors. This chapter investigates to what extent MNEs have...

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The Instrumental Weighted Variables. Part III. Asymptotic Representation

Víšek, Jan Ámos - Institut ekonomických studií, Univerzita Karlova v Praze - 2007

The robust version of the classical instrumental variables, called Instrumental Weighted Variables (IWV) and the … why the classical instrumental variables as well as IWV were introduced and the idea of implicit weighting the residuals …

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The Instrumental Weighted Variables. Part I. Consistency

Víšek, Jan Ámos - Institut ekonomických studií, Univerzita Karlova v Praze - 2007

A robust version of the method of Instrumental Variables accommodating the idea of an implicit weighting the residuals …

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Urban growth and transportation

Duranton, Gilles; Turner, Matthew A. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2007

period. To estimate these effects we rely on an instrumental variables estimation which uses a 1947 plan of the interstate …

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Household-level Credit Constraints in Urban Ethiopia

Ibrahim, Gamal; Kedir, Abbi; Torres, Sebastian - Department of Economics, Leicester University - 2007

; credit rationing; endogeneity; instrumental variables; urban Ethiopia; Africa JEL Classification: D12; O12; O55 1 … squares) estimator which is sometimes referred to 17 as IV (instrumental variables) probit estimation to control for the … direction. The conventional probit model estimates and the instrumental variables probit estimates are presented in Table 5 …

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