Frontmatter -- Inhalt / Contents -- Abhandlungen/Original Papers -- Guest Editorial "Econometrics of Anonymized Micro Data" -- Data Masking by Noise Addition and the Estimation of Nonparametric Regression Models / Lechner, Sandra / Pohlmeier, Winfried -- The Effect of Microaggregation Procedures...

Some well-known correlations between R&D and performance are given a somewhat new interpretation in this paper. I present an alternative model of knowledge accumulation, with some interesting and desirable properties. Perhaps the most attractive property is that it provides a simple and less...

Some well-known correlations between R&D and performance are given a somewhat new interpretation in this paper. I present an alternative model of knowledge accumulation, with some interesting and desirable properties. Perhaps the most attractive property is that it provides a simple and less...

Over the last decade credit rationing has been regarded increasingly as the outcome of asymmetric Information. Profit maximization of the banks might lead to interest rates lower than the market equilibrium rate. Administering loans at a higher interest rate to the rationed customers will...

Although explanations of the persistence of high unemployment in Germany, in particular long-term unemployment, have increasingly focused on structural factors, there is only very limited evidence on their empirical importance so far. In this paper, these factors are analyzed based on a...

This paper summarizes some recent developments in rnicroeconometrics with respect to methods for estimation and inference in non-linear models based on cross-section and panel data. In particular we discuss recent progress in estimation with conditional moment restrictions, simulation methods,...

The method of inverse sampling probabilities is adopted to calculate weights for a household panel. The method generates longitudinal as well as cross-sectional weights, which reflect the subsequent sampling stages of the panel and the different possibilities of households to enter the panel.

Panel attrition has not only the potential to bias population estimates but it may also inflate the variance of the estimates from panel surveys. Thus it is essential for an ongoing panel survey to monitor not only the size of the panel attrition and the potential biases that may occur but also...