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Do Cows Have Negative Returns? The Evidence Revisited

Gehrke, Esther - 2014

This paper addresses the apparent paradox between widespread support of cattle farming by agricultural policy interventions and negative returns to cattle as stressed in recent works. Using a representative panel dataset for Andhra Pradesh, a state in the south of India, we examine average and...

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Predictability of Asset Returns and the Efficient Market Hypothesis

Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2010

inefficiencies (assuming that they exist) can be exploited for profit …

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Economies of Scale in the Tunisian Industries

Heshmati, Almas - 2011

To date, empirical investigations of trade liberalization under the conditions of increasing returns to scale (IRS) and imperfect competition (IC) have either assumed or imposed the market and productive structures necessary for such a model. However, of the recent IRS/IC models used to simulate...

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Regulation and UK Retailing Productivity : Evidence from Micro Data

Haskel, Jonathan - 2012

We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and 2003. We document a shift to smaller shops, particularly within supermarket chains, following a regulatory change in 1996 which increased the costs of opening large stores. This...

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Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce, Productivity and Profits : Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian - 2012

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from …-productivity profiles, which are consistent with human capital theory, and adds a new finding of a rather negative effect of age on firms …' profitability, which is consistent with deferred compensation considerations. Moreover, our analysis reveals for the first time that …

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Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth for Chinese Provinces : A Panel Data Analysis

Shiu, Alice - 2006

We present in this paper the panel econometrics estimation approach of measuring the technical change and total factor productivity (TFP) growth of 30 Chinese provinces during the period of 1993 to 2003. The random effects model with heteroscedastic variances has been used for the estimation of...

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Relationship between the Real Estate Sector and the Stock Market in Chinese Provinces

Di, Zeyu; Heshmati, Almas; Liu, Sijia - 2022

In China, real estate and the stock market are the two main markets favored by both individual and institutional investors. There is a significant economic link between the two. Therefore, their relationship and long-term and short-term causality can provide good guidance for investors. This...

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Give Me Your Wired and Your Highly Skilled : Measuring the Impact of Immigration Policy on Employers and Shareholders

Lin, Carl - 2013

The paper links finance theory to labor economics and political economy in the context of migration and immigration … quantitative impact of immigrants on employer profit, and which employers are most likely to gain (suffer) increased (reduced …) profits as a result of immigration. Using event study analysis, I measure the impact of immigration policy on the profit of …

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The Heterogeneous Response of Real Estate Asset Prices to a Global Shock

Heiniger, Sandro; Koeniger, Winfried; Lechner, Michael - 2022

We estimate the transmission of the pandemic shock in 2020 to prices in the residential and commercial real estate market by causal machine learning, using new granular data at the municipal level for Germany. We exploit differences in the incidence of Covid infections or short-time work at the...

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Marital Matching, Economies of Scale and Intrahousehold Allocations

Cherchye, L. - 2016

We propose a novel structural method to empirically identify economies of scale in household consumption. We assume collective households with consumption technologies that define the public and private nature of expenditures through Barten scales. Our method recovers the technology by solely...

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