This paper discusses methodological problems of standard errors and treatment effects. First, heteroskedasticity- and cluster-robust estimates are considered as well as problems with Bernoulli distributed regressors, outliers and partially identified parameters. Second, procedures to determine...

Im März 2017 wurden die Ergebnisse für das Wirtschaftswachstum im Jahr 2015 auf der Ebene der Bundesländer außergewöhnlich kräftig überarbeitet. Neben den üblichen Anpassungen aufgrund neu verfügbarer Daten dürften hierfür unter anderem Schwierigkeiten bei der Schätzung der...

Die durchschnittliche Bildungsrendite betrug im Jahr 2007 in Westdeutschland 9,9 Prozent und in Ostdeutschland 9,6 Prozent. In den vergangenen Jahren sind trotz der zu beobachtenden Bildungsexpansion die Erträge, die der Einzelne durch Investitionen in seine Bildung erzielen kann, gestiegen....

To explain the growth dynamics in the transition economies of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union the relative importance of monetary variables is analysed. A theoretical as well as an empirical approach are employed to make predictions about how financial development will affect economic...

Judicial enforcement of contracts can have an effect on credit market performance because it influences the risk and costs of credit transactions. This paper documents this point by empirically investigating the relation between the efficiency of judicial systems and credit market development...

We draw lessons from existing work and our own analysis on the effects of parental leave and other interventions aimed at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with a discussion of the historical introduction of family...

The paper develops a methodological framework for estimating internal transaction costs from observed input-output mixes and prices. The empirical model is a modified DEA. This framework is applied to corporate dairy farms located in Russia's Moscow oblast. The estimates provided that internal...