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Panel data gravity models of international trade

Baltagi, Badi H.; Egger, Peter; Pfaffermayr, Michael - 2014

One of the oldest and largest literatures in empirical economics is concerned with the estimation of demand and supply of goods, services, and factors across national or subnational borders (see Leamer and Levinsohn, 1995). The respective empirical models specified and estimated are often...

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Bayesian estimation of multivariate panel probits with higher-order network interdependence and an application to firms' global market participation in Guangdong

Baltagi, Badi H.; Egger, Peter; Kesina, Michaela - 2022

simulation examples, and provides an application to study exporting and foreign ownership among potentially interdependent firms …

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Contagious exporting and foreign ownership : evidence from firms in Shanghai using a Bayesian spatial bivariate probit model

Baltagi, Badi H.; Egger, Peter; Kesina, Michaela - 2018

provides evidence that success for some firms in attracting foreign investors and in exporting appears to reduce the associated … fixed costs with exporting or foreign ownership in other firms. Using data on 8,959 firms located in Shanghai, we find that … contagion and spillovers in exporting and in foreign ownership decisions within an area of 10 miles in the city of Shanghai …

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Revisiting the matching function

Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian; Nordmeier, Daniela - 2016

There is strong empirical evidence for Cobb-Douglas matching functions. We show in this paper that this widely found … underlying mechanisms. Obviously, it can be generated by assuming a Cobb-Douglas matching function. Less obvious, the same … idiosyncratic productivity can explain the observed negative time trend in estimated matching efficiency and asymmetric business …

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Revisiting the matching function

Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian; Nordmeier, Daniela - 2016

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Hartz IV and the decline of German unemployment : a macroeconomic evaluation

Hochmuth, Brigitte; Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian; … - 2019

This paper proposes a new approach to evaluate the macroeconomic effects of the Hartz IV reform in Germany, which reduced the generosity of long-term unemployment benefits. We use a model with different unemployment durations, where the reform initiates both a partial effect and an equilibrium...

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