impact of EU structural funds on employment drawing on a panel dataset of 130 European NUTS regions over the time period 1999 … is directly aimed at reducing disparities in the employment sector. Against this background, the paper analyses the … structural funds for an extended time horizon and examine the robustness of our results by comparing different dynamic panel …

higher electricity prices. We examine the effect from changing electricity prices on manufacturing employment. Analyzing firm … employment more than less constrained firms. This implies a potentially mitigating role for monetary policy. …

Portugal, the estimation results suggest that, under the existence of noncompetitive rents, the fear of job loss leads workers …

effect panel regressions linking such density characteristics and density forecast performance. Our empirical results suggest …

We propose a dynamic factor model for mixed-measurement and mixed-frequency panel data. In this framework time series … obtained by means of simulation, thus enabling straightforward parameter estimation by standard maximum likelihood. We use the …

the NMS, by using a Bayesian estimation that combines information across countries. The impulse responses in the NMS are …

We introduce a new dynamic clustering method for multivariate panel data char-acterized by time-variation in cluster … current center of their previous cluster as-signment. This links consecutive cross-sections in the panel together … settings. The method is illustrated using a multivariate panel of four accounting ratios for 28 large European insurance firms …

adjustment costs and indivisibility of labor in the employment stickiness of manufacturing firms with less than 75 employees …. When small firms have to adjust employment in units of at least one employee, indivisibility becomes an important source of … inference on a panel of small French manufacturing firms. Adjustment cost are estimated to be very small. Indivisibility …