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ESTIMATION ISSUES IN SINGLE COMMODITY GRAVITY TRADE MODELS

Prehn, Soren; Brummer, Bernhard - 2011

Recently gravity trade models are applied to disaggregated trade data. Here many zeros arecharacteristic. In the presence of excess zeros usual Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood(PPML) is still consistent, the variance covariance matrix however is invalid. Correcteconomic interpretation however...

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Beeinflussung regionaler Kaufkraftströme durch den Autobahnlückenschluß der A 49 Kassel-Gießen ; Zur empirischen Relevanz der New Economic Geography in wirtschaftsgeographischen Fragestellungen ; The impact of the motorway completion A 49 Kassel-Gießen on regional purchasing power flows. ; On the empirical relevance of the New Economic Geography in economic geography studies

Fittkau, Dirk - 2013

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FINANCIAL ANALYSIS OF SMALL FOOD MANUFACTURING AND RETAILING BUSINESSES

Gustafson, Cole R. - 2003

in this study to compare the financial characteristics of food manufacturing and retailing small businesses. On average …, both food manufacturing and food retailing small businesses had positive financial characteristics. Although they were only …-fourths of food manufacturing and one-half of food retailing supply purchases involve trade credit from a large number of trade …

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The importance of regional economic integration in Africa

Madyo, Manone Regina - 2008

Motivation of virtually all regional economic integration (REI) initiatives has been prospect of enhanced economic growth. Although REI's role in contributing to growth and development was recognised and acknowledged, its importance in Africa has never been properly outlined. Theoretical...

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A gravity model analysis of trade and direct investment in the Central and Eastern European Countries

Stack, Marie M. - 2010

approach to predicting East West trade patterns, a panel data set of bilateral exports from twelve EU countries to twenty OECD … and host country policies. Using a panel data set of bilateral FDI flows from twelve EU countries to eleven CEE countries …

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Auswirkungen der internationalen Migration auf die Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Theoretische und empirische Analysen vor dem Hintergrund der EU-Osterweiterung

Pflugbeil, Stephan Dirk - 2005

Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht wissenschaftlich anhand eines theoretischen Modells, wie sich internationale Migration auf die Volkwirtschaft des Aufnahmelandes auswirkt nicht nur im Rahmen der EU-Osterweiterung. Kapitel eins enthält neben einer Hinführung zum Thema einen allgemeinen...

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How technical standards are developed for global engineering and manufacturing organizations

Seepersad, Carolyn C. (contributor); … - 2010

This paper explores how corporations can choose technical standards used throughout its organization. A methodology for choosing the standard is introduced. It is based on the methods that professional standards organizations use to create new standards for industries. The steps to choose an...

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The impact of plant-level resource reallocations and technical progress on U.S. macroeconomic growth.

Petrin, Amil; White, T. Kirk; Reiter, Jerome P. - 2011

We build up from the plant level an “aggregate(d)” Solow residual by estimating every U.S. manufacturing plant … of inputs to more highly valued activities on average plays a stabilizing role in manufacturing growth. Our results have …

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Skills, Flexible Manufacturing Technology, and Work Organization.

Gale, H. Frederick Jr.; Wojan, Timothy R.; Olmsted, … - 2002

This study employs a national survey of over 3000 U.S. manufacturing establishments to explore associations between …

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The Geography of New Manufacturing Technology: Implications for the Nonmetropolitan South.

McGranahan, David A. - 1999

Despite the growth in services. manufacturing remains an essential part of the nonmetropolitan South's economy … of manufacturing jobs in the 1970s and 1980s, lost jobs in the 1990s. Their manufacturing base is threatened not only by … worker skills. Data from the Economic Research Service Rural Manufacturing Survey (RMS) show that labor quality is a central …

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