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Defever, Fabrice; Riaño, Alejandro - 2012

One third of Chinese exporters sell more than ninety percent of their production abroad. We argue that this distinctive pattern is attributable to a wide range of subsidies that provide incentives to these pure exporters. We propose a heterogeneous-firm model in which firms exporting all their...

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Persistence and cycles in the US Federal Funds rate

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alana, Luis A. - 2012

This paper uses long-range dependence techniques to analyse two important features of the US Federal Funds effective rate, namely its persistence and cyclical behaviour. It examines annual, monthly, bi-weekly and weekly data, from 1954 until 2010. Two models are considered. One is based on an...

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The new stylized facts about income and subjective well-being

Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013

In recent decades economists have turned their attention to data that asks people how happy or satisfied they are with their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in determining well-being was limited, and that only income relative to others was related to...

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Measuring strategic firm interaction in product-quality choices: The case of airline flight frequency

Brueckner, Jan K.; Luo, Dan - 2013

This paper investigates strategic interaction among airlines in product-quality choices. Using an instrumental variables approach, the paper estimates flight-frequency reaction functions, which relate an airline's frequency on a route to its own characteristics and to the frequencies of...

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A Federal Long-run Projection Model for Germany

Holtemöller, Oliver; Irrek, Maike; Schultz, Birgit - 2012

Many economic decisions implicitly or explicitly rely on a projection of the medium- or long-term economic development of a country or region. In this paper, we provide a federal long-run projection model for Germany and the German states. The model features a top-down approach and, as major...

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A note on the stochastic properties of German stock returns

Lux, Thomas - 1998

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Estimating probabilities of default with support vector machines

Härdle, Wolfgang; Moro, Rouslan A.; Schäfer, Dorothea - 2007

Forschungsgemeinschaft through the SFB 649 "Economic Risk". http://sfb649.wiwi.hu-berlin.de ISSN 1860-5664 SFB 649, Humboldt …. This research was also supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft through the SFB 649 “Economic Risk”. We are grateful to … quantitative models on the PD estimation and, therefore, on capital requirements. When following the DA, logit or probit approach …

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Dynamic programming & local computation

Pouly, Marc; Kohlas, Jürg - 2007

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Threshold values in German labor law and job dynamics in small firms : the case of the disability law

Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Kölling, Arnd - 2001

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Market power, multimarket contact and pricing : some evidence from the US automobile market

Leheyda, Nina (contributor) - 2008

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