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Weather and Income: Lessons from the main European regions
García-León, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have … countries, leaving rich countries basically unaffected. In this study, we make use of a detailed weather and economic dataset …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011130323
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Varying Coefficient Panel Data Model in the Presence of Endogenous Selectivity and Fixed Effects
Malikov, Emir; Kumbhakar, Subal C.; Sun, Yiguo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper considers a flexible panel data sample selection model in which (i) the outcome equation is permitted to take a semiparametric, varying coefficient form to capture potential parameter heterogeneity in the relationship of interest, (ii) both the outcome and (parametric) selection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109577
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Active Labour Market Programmes and Poverty Dynamics in Ireland
Halpin, Brendan; Hill, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Active Labour Market Policies (ALMPs), which provide training and subsidised employment to the unemployed, are an important part of Ireland’s welfare state. While a good deal of existing research is concerned with the effect of these policies on employment chances and on wage rates, none...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617066
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Mixed Signals Among Tests for Panel Cointegration
Westerlund, Joakim; Basher, Syed A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this paper, we study the effect that different serial correlation adjustment methods can have on panel cointegration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789822
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Quantifying and explaining parameter heterogeneity in the capital regulation-bank risk nexus
Delis, Manthos D; Tran, Kien; Tsionas, Efthymios - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
By examining the impact of capital regulation on bank risk-taking using a local estimation technique, we are able to quantify the heterogeneous response of banks towards this type of regulation in banking sectors of western-type economies. Subsequently, using this information on the bank-level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490462
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Analyzing the Kuznets Relationship using Nonparametric and Semiparametric Methods
Li, Kui-Wai - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper studies the income inequality and economic development relationship by using unbalanced panel data of OECD and non-OECD countries for the period 1962 - 2003. The nonparametric estimation results show that income inequality in OECD countries are almost on the backside of the inverted-U...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647376
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Income and Emission: A Panel Data based Cointegration Analysis
Dinda, Soumyananda; Coondoo, Dipankor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
time series econometric techniques of unit root test, co-integration and related error correction model for a panel data …) process, we next have performed the panel data co-integration test and finally, we have estimated the ECM (for these country … groups for which significant income-emission cointegration was obtained) to explore the nature of dynamics implicit in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111542
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Testing for Convergence in Carbon Dioxide Emissions Using a Century of Panel Data
Westerlund, Joakim; Basher, Syed A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper tests the convergence in per-capita carbon dioxide emissions for a collection of developed and developing countries using data spanning the period 1870 to 2002. For this purpose, three recently developed panel unit root tests that permit for dependence among the individual countries...
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Energy efficiency in transition: do market-oriented economic reforms matter?
Nepal, Rabindra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Global climate change and security of supply concerns pose significant challenges for sustainable development as well as the need to improve energy efficiency in transition and developing economies. Meanwhile, economic theory suggests that market-based economic policies and reforms are crucial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294669
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A panel estimation of the relationship between income, electric power consumption and CO2 emissions
Bellla, Gianni; Massidda, Carla; Etzo, Ivan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper aims to give a contribution on the still questioned bell-shaped relationship between carbon dioxide polluting emissions and economic growth, which is commonly known in the literature as the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis. In particular, it develops a panel analysis for a group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008684859