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      <title>Terrorismus und Internationaler Handel: Probleme und Ergebnisse empirischer Untersuchungen</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/43137</link>
      <description>Title: Terrorismus und Internationaler Handel: Probleme und Ergebnisse empirischer Untersuchungen
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Nitsch, Volker
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: In diesem kurzen Aufsatz werden die Kosten des Terrors für den internationalen Handel diskutiert. Unstrittig ist, dass Unsicherheit und Gewalt die wirtschaftliche Aktivität lähmen können. Ob auch terroristische Aktionen, die häufig isolierte Ereignisse darstellen, selten auf direkte Zerstörung zielen, und sich einer Vielzahl von unterschiedlichen Methoden bedienen, die Wirtschaftsaktivität spürbar beeinflussen, ist zuletzt zum Gegenstand zahlreicher Untersuchungen geworden. Bei der Identifikation (und insbesondere der Quantifizierung) der Auswirkungen von Terrorismus auf den Handel treten allerdings eine Reihe methodischer Probleme auf; die Bandbreite der Schwierigkeiten reicht von der Erfassung und Kodifizierung terroristischer Aktivitäten bis hin zu möglichen Endogenitätsproblemen. Vor dem Hintergrund dieser ökonometrischen Schätzprobleme scheint es bemerkenswert, dass eine Reihe von Studien mit unterschiedlichem Untersuchungsdesign einen signifikanten negativen Zusammenhang zwischen Terrorismus und Handel dokumentieren.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Standard Taylor rules revisited: A cross country study for European countries</title>
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      <description>Title: Standard Taylor rules revisited: A cross country study for European countries
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Eschenhof, Sabine
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: In this paper we want to estimate basic Taylor rules with a cross country study approach for European countries before the reorganization of the system of central banks. We compare basic and extended Taylor rules to give a hint if the exchange rate plays a significant role in the decision making of monetary policy. Fixed Effects, GMM and SGMM estimators are used to check for robustness. The obtained results adumbrate that there may be an influence of exchange rate changes on the monetary policy decision making process but the results are not fully robust and deliver only a weak tendency.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Numerical explorations of the Ngai-Pissarides model of growth and structural change</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/43135</link>
      <description>Title: Numerical explorations of the Ngai-Pissarides model of growth and structural change
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Dietrich, Andreas; Krüger, Jens J.
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: In this paper we specialize the Ngai-Pissarides model of growth and structural change [American Economic Review 97 (2007), 429-443] to the case of three sectors, representing the primary (agriculture, mining), secondary (construction, manufacturing) and tertiary (services) sectors. On that basis we explore the dynamic properties of the model along the transition path to the steady-state equilibrium by numerical methods. Our explorations show that the model misses several stylized facts of structural change among these sectors. We propose several extensions of the model to align the model more closely with the facts.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Technical efficiency of automobiles: A nonparametric approach incorporating carbon dioxide emissions</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/43134</link>
      <description>Title: Technical efficiency of automobiles: A nonparametric approach incorporating carbon dioxide emissions
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Hampf, Benjamin; Krüger, Jens J.
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: We conduct an empirical analysis of the technical efficiency of cars sold in Germany in 2010. The analysis is performed using traditional data envelopment analysis (DEA) as well as directional distance functions (DDF). The approach of DDF allows incorporating the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions as an environmental goal in the efficiency analysis. A frontier separation approach is used to gain deeper insight for different car classes and regions of origin. Natural gas driven cars and sports-utility-vehicles are also treated as different groups. The results show that the efficiency measurement is significantly influenced by the incorporation of carbon dioxide emissions. Moreover, we find that there is indeed a trade-off between technological performance and environmental performance.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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