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...

Incluye bibliografía ; El estimador de Arellano y Bond (1991) es muy popular entre los investigadores empíricos para estimar modelos dinámicos de panel con efectos fijos y regresores endógenos. Sin embargo, dicho estimador puede presentar sesgos cuando el número de unidades del panel (N) es...

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...

Contrary to the extant literature, this paper shows that the impact of terrorism on economic growth is insignificant in five regional samples. These surprising results follow when Nickell bias and cross-sectional dependence are taken into account. Previous studies have not properly adjusted for...

We focus on the dynamic relation between wage increases, promotions and job changes. We relate our empirical analyses to the theoretical model of Gibbons and Waldman (1999). In the empirical analyses we use the Portuguese matched employer-employee data Quadros de Pessoal. We conclude from...

Building on Prospect Theory, we apply the concept of loss aversion to the formation of inflation perceptions and test empirically for non- linearities in the inflation-perceptions relation for a panel of 10 Euro area countries. Specifically, under the assumption of loss aversion, inflation...

In this paper we try to elucidate the relationship between foreign and domestic banks external indebtedness and the business cycle in Colombia. After a brief review of related literature, we characterize the historical behavior of banking external indebtedness in Colombia, and perform...