The industry organization theory in the early stage emphasizes the structure-conduct-performance (SCP) paradigm, indicating that industry characteristics and structure factors influence firm performance. Accompanied by technology development and the enhancement of innovation capabilities, the...

The Berry, Levinsohn, and Pakes (1995, BLP) model is widely used to obtain parameter estimates of market forces in differentiated product markets. The results are often used as an input to evaluate economic activity in a structural model of demand and supply. Precise estimation of parameter...

The Berry, Levinsohn, and Pakes (1995, BLP) model is widely used to obtain parameter estimates of market forces in differentiated product markets. The results are often used as an input to evaluate economic activity in a structural model of demand and supply. Precise estimation of parameter...

Much of the analysis of panel data has been based on an assumption of strict exogeneity. Distributions are specified for outcome variables conditional on a latent individual effect and conditional on observed predictor variables at all dates, with the future values of the predictor variables...

Private wealth holdings are likely to become an increasingly important determinant in the job exit decision of elderly workers. Net wealth may correlate with worker's characteristics that also determine the exit out of a job. It is therefore important to include a rich set of observed...

Much of the analysis of panel data has been based on an assumption of strict exogeneity. Distributions are specified for outcome variables conditional on a latent individual effect and conditional on observed predictor variables at all dates, with the future values of the predictor variables...

Für die Auswertung empirischer Untersuchungen werden oftmals spezialisierte Verfahren benötigt, die sich für bestimmte Datenmuster und Fragestellungen eignen. Dieses Lehrbuch wendet sich an alle, die einen Einstieg in komplexe regressionsanalytische Methoden und deren praktische Umsetzung suchen.

In der letzten Dekade wurde (nicht nur) in Deutschland eine Reihe von Maßnahmen zur Erhöhung der weiblichen Erwerbsbeteiligung eingeführt (Ausbau der Kinderbetreuungseinrichtungen, Elterngeld etc.). Während sich die Erwerbsquote der Frauen deutlich erhöht hat, fallen die Effekte auf das...

This paper proposes a new copula model known as the Lévy subordinated hierarchical Archimedean copulas (LSHAC) for multi-country mortality dependence modeling. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to apply the LSHAC model to mortality studies. Through an extensive empirical...

Few would contest that teachers are a very important determinant of whether students learn in school and how to improve teacher performance has been the focus of much policy debate in rich and poor countries. This paper examines how incentives, both pecuniary and non-pecuniary, correlate with...

Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this article examines whether gender wage differentials occur due to differences in prototypical personality traits of women and men and provides the first application of a gender wage gap decomposition on the basis of a...

This article develops a Bayesian approach for estimating panel quantile regression with binary outcomes in the presence of correlated random effects. We construct a working likelihood using an asymmetric Laplace (AL) error distribution and combine it with suitable prior distributions to obtain...

In den letzten Jahrzehnten konnte ein deutlicher Anstieg von in-work poverty in Europa beobachtet werden. Das Ziel dieser Arbeit lag in der Identifikation verschiedener Einflussfaktoren auf der personenbezogenen Ebene und struktureller Rahmenbedingungen des Wohlfahrtsstaates und Arbeitsmarktes...

The existing body of academic literature reveals that production, distribution, and consumption might be both consistently connected and geographically scattered. This requires assessing the spatial order of production–distribution–consumption cycle, within which exploring of spatial...

In this paper, we estimate and leverage latent constant group structure to generate the point, set, and density forecasts for short dynamic panel data. We implement a nonparametric Bayesian approach to simultaneously identify coefficients and group membership in the random effects which are...

Who does the dishes and cleans the bathroom? In couple relationships it is still a question of gender who does the majority of housework. The study deals with domestic work arrangements in couple relationships in connection with the aspect of power, which has been neglected by studies of family...

Improving school quality with limited resources is a key issue of policy. It has been suggested that instructing teachers to follow specific practices together with tight monitoring of their activities may help improve outcomes in under-performing schools that usually serve poor populations....

Modelling the covariance matrix in linear mixed models provides an additional advantage in making inference about subject-specific effects, particularly in the analysis of repeated measurement data, where time-ordering of the responses induces significant correlation. Some difficulties...

Applications of multiple imputation have long outgrown the traditional context of dealing with item nonresponse in cross-sectional datasets. Nowadays multiple imputation is also applied to impute missing values in hierarchical datasets, address confidentiality concerns, combine data from...

This paper evaluates the impact of fiscal incentives on firm performance in the Dominican Republic. In recent years, the Dominican government has approved several new corporate tax benefits. While the literature on value-added tax incentives is extensive, the impact of corporate tax incentives...

This paper aims at identifying the magnitude of excess returns provided by the shares of an acquirer in a merger or acquisition transaction. In order to do so, the paper studies 352 transactions between January 1, 2003 and April 25, 2018 over the value of $100 mn at announcement involving an...