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The traditional approach to measuring allocative efficiency exploits input prices, which are rarely known at the firm level. This paper proves allocative efficiency can be measured as a profit-oriented distance to the frontier in a profit-technical efficiency space. This new approach does not require information on input prices. To validate the new approach, we perform a Monte-Carlo experiment providing ...
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Economic Modelling
25 (2008), 5, S. 1093-1109
| Oleg Badunenko, Michael Fritsch, Andreas Stephan
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We evaluate the interaction of inflation and growth forecast errors based on 17 distinct forecasts for the German economy for the period from 1970 to 2004. The forecasts were produced by 14 institutions. Our findings show that, in general, the forecasters did not share a common belief about the shocks driving the economy at the time at which they made their forecasts. We use a standard textbook aggregate-demand/aggregate-supply ...
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Applied Economics Letters
15 (2008), 5, S. 355-358
| Jörg Döpke, Ulrich Fritsche
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This paper examines the cyclical interactions between the remittances of Turkish workers in Germany and output in both Turkey and Germany. Our analysis introduces a new data set covering 1962 to 2004, never used before in the research literature and considered to be a more reliable source than the data sets used in other studies. By dividing the original sample into recruitment, family reunification, ...
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Emerging Markets, Finance & Trade
44 (2008), 5, S. 23-40
| Sule Akkoyunlu, Konstantin A. Kholodilin
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This paper investigates the effects of EU enlargement on price convergence. The internal market is expected to boost integration and increase efficiency and welfare through a convergence of prices in product markets. Two principal drivers are crucial to explain price developments. On one hand, higher competition exerts downward pressure on prices because of lower markups. On the other hand, the catching-up ...
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Eastern European Economics
46 (2008), 5, S. 57-68
| Christian Dreger, Konstantin Kholodilin, Kirsten Lommatzsch, Jiri Slacalek, Przemyslaw Wozniak
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This paper investigates the link between the optimal level of non-financial firms' liquid assets and uncertainty. We develop a partial equilibrium model of precautionary demand for liquid assets showing that firms alter their liquidity ratio in response to changes in either macroeconomic or idiosyneratic uncertainty. We test this hypothesis using a panel of non-financial US firms drawn from the COMPUSTAT ...
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Economic Modelling
25 (2008), 5, S. 833-849
| Christopher F. Baum, Mustafa Caglayan, Andreas Stephan, Oleksandr Talavera
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We investigate the effects of regional and industrywide foreign presence and foreign direct investment (FDI) on the export volumes of Ukrainian manufacturing firms using unpublished panel data from 1996-2000. Foreign presence through FDI may have negative competition effects on domestic firms' performance; at the same time, domestic firms' productivity may be increased by technology transfer or training ...
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Emerging Markets, Finance & Trade
44 (2008), 5, S. 82-98
| Stefan Lutz, Oleksandr Talavera, Sang-Min Park
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Germany is known to have one of the lowest fertility rates among Western European countries and also relatively low employment rates of mothers with young children. Although these trends have been observed during the last decades, the German public has only recently begun discussing these issues. In order to reverse these trends, the German government recently passed a reform of the parental leave ...
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Population Research and Policy Review
27 (2008), 5, S. 575-591
| C. Katharina Spieß, Katharina Wrohlich
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In this paper, the framework of the aggregated Beveridge curve is used to investigate the effectiveness of the job-matching process using German regional labour market data. For a fixed matching technology, the Beveridge curve postulates a negative relationship between the unemployment rate and the rate of vacancies, which is efficiently estimated using spatial econometric techniques. The eigenfunction ...
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The Annals of Regional Science
42 (2008), 4, S. 967-986
| Reinhold Kosfeld, Christian Dreger, Hans-Friedrich Eckey
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Global Warming Potential (GWP) is an index used to measure the cumulative radiative forcing of a tonne of greenhouse house gas (GHG) relative to that of a "reference" gas (CO2). Under the Kyoto Protocol, GWP can be used as a fixed index to govern the trade-off between different GHGs in a multi-gas approach to GHGs abatement. The use of fixed GWPs has been criticized for not being very cost effective ...
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Environmental Modeling and Assessment
13 (2008), 4, S. 503-515
| Truong P. Truong, Claudia Kemfert
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The Chinese government is building the largest public credit information database on earth. The Credit Registry Center of the People's Bank of China registers more than 600 million consumers of which 110 million have a credit relationship with a financial institution. The Center is a public utility monopoly which collects information from banks and non-bank institutions - a unique approach developed ...
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China Economic Review
19 (2008), 4, S. 537-550
| Nicola Jentzsch