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There is not much research on welfare-economics from the perspective of human wellbeing (happiness). The main reason is that this is qualitative and subjective phenomena are not easily captured by measurement. In the present endeavour, the authors tried to capture it (happiness) from the...
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Using a sample of 1154 European firms from 11 countries, we show that firm-levelexchange exposure for Eurozone and non-Eurozone … European firms has increased sincethe introduction of the euro, but this rise was smaller for Eurozone than non … Eurozone countries, so the advent of the euroappears to have been associated with a shift in exchange risk from systematic to …
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subsectors, at least not given the used identification strategy. This could be due to the fact that this theory regards the …
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standard and international trade. The estimation results allow us to formulate some interesting policy conclusions. …
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New residential construction is significantly more procyclical in emerging markets than in developed countries, although the correlation between aggregate investment and output is similar across emerging and developed countries. This paper shows that a multi-sector stochastic growth model with a...
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Castro and Coen-Pirani (2008) document that aggregate skilled hours and employment both became more volatile after the mid-1980s, in contrast to the simultaneous volatility decline of most aggregates, including overall hours and employment and unskilled hours and employment. In chapter 1, I...
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probabilities, I adopt dynamicpanel data estimation methods, in which the worker's lagged state (i.e., whether unemployed or …
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as to the acceptability of spatial aggregation in hedonic property value models. Both statistical tests and tests based … upon prediction errors are performed in order to identify the circumstances under which aggregation is statistically … importance of specification and functional form as determinants of both the acceptability of aggregation and predictive power …
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Model induction from relational data requires aggregation of values ofattributes of related entities. This paper makes … needed to learn these concepts. (2) Expanding onelevel of the hierarchy, it introduces new aggregation operators thatmodel … byclass. (3) It demonstrates empirically on a noisy business domain thatmore-complex aggregation methods can increase …
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