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In vector autoregressive analyses, confidence intervals for individual impulse responses are typically reported in order to indicate the sampling uncertainty in the estimation results. Various methods are reviewed, and a new method for the construction of joint confidence bands, given a prespecified coverage level, for the impulse responses at all horizons considered simultaneously, is proposed. The ...
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International Journal of Forecasting
31 (2015), 3, S. 782-798
| Helmut Lütkepohl, Anna Staszewska-Bystrova, Peter Winker
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By investigating how locally available early childhood education and care quality relates to maternal employment choices, this study extends the literature, which mostly has focused on the importance of day care availability or costs. The authors provide differentiated analyses by the youngest child's age and for West and East Germany to examine moderating influences, such as work-care cultures, in ...
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Journal of Marriage and Family
77 (2015), 3, S. 712-729
| Pia S. Schober, C. Katharina Spieß
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We propose an allocation rule that takes into account the importance of both players and their links and characterize it for a fixed network. Our characterization is along the lines of the characterization of the Position value for Network games by van den Nouweland and Slikker (2012). The allocation rule so defined admits multilateral interactions among the players through their links which distinguishes ...
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European Journal of Operational Research
243 (2015), 3, S. 912-920
| Surajit Borkotokey, Rajnish Kumar, Sudipta Sarangi
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Economic policies rely on demographic projections. Yet in making these projections, researchers often ignore the aspect of household formation—despite sustained trends in many industrialized countries towards smaller household units with fewer members. Over the long term, this trend is likely to reduce the benefits of sharing goods/services within households (household economies of scale) at the micro-level, ...
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Oxford Economic Papers
67 (2015), 3, S. 760-780
| Carsten Schröder, Katrin Rehdanz, Daiju Narita, Toshihiro Okubo
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Discrete choice models usually require a general specification of unobserved heterogeneity. In this paper, we apply Bayesian procedures as a numerical tool for the estimation of a female labor supply model based on a sample size that is typical for common household panels. We provide two important results for the practitioner: First, for a specification with a multivariate normal distribution for the ...
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Empirical Economics
49 (2015), 3, S. 1123-1141
| Peter Haan, Daniel Kemptner, Arne Uhlendorff
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We investigate whether people are more willing to become self-employed during boom periods or during recessions and to what extent business cycles and unemployment levels influence entries into entrepreneurship. Our analysis for Germany reveals that there is a positive relationship between unemployment rates and start-up activities. Moreover, new business formation is higher during recessions than ...
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International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal
11 (2015), 2, S. 267-286
| Michael Fritsch, Alexander S. Kritikos, Katharina Pijnenburg
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Chinese companies have become major technology producers, with the largest shares of their output exported. This paper examines the development of solar PV and wind energy technology component (WETC) exports from China and the competitive position of the country‘s renewable energy industry. We also describe the government’s renewable energy policy and its success in renewable electricity generation ...
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Environmental & Resource Economics
60 (2015), 2, S. 243-283
| Felix Groba, Jing Cao
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We apply recently proposed individual welfare measures in the context of preference heterogeneity, derived from structural labour supply models. Contrary to the standard practice of using reference preferences and wages, these measures preserve preference heterogeneity in the normative step of the analysis. They also make the ethical priors, implicit in any interpersonal comparison, more explicit. ...
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International Tax and Public Finance
22 (2015), Iss. 2, S. 224-251
| André Decoster, Peter Haan
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In der vorliegenden Studie werden die Folgen befristeter Beschäftigung am Anfang der Erwerbskarriere für unterschiedliche Qualifikationsgruppen in Deutschland zwischen 1984 und 2010 untersucht. Dazu werden auf Basis der 8. Etappe des Nationalen Bildungspanels (NEPS-E8) Übergänge aus befristeten Erstbeschäftigungen mittels ereignisdatenanalytischer Methoden untersucht. Wie sich zeigt, hängen die Chancen ...
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Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
67 (2015), 2, 243-267
| Paul Schmelzer, Stefanie Gundert, Christian Hohendanner
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Despite widespread support from policy makers, funding agencies, and scientific journals, academic researchers rarely make their research data available to others. At the same time, data sharing in research is attributed a vast potential for scientific progress. It allows the reproducibility of study results and the reuse of old data for new research questions. Based on a systematic review of 98 scholarly ...
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PLOS One
10 (2015), 2, e0118053
| Benedikt Fecher, Sascha Friesike, Marcel Hebing