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CASEpaper

Living arrangements, intra-household inequality and children’s deprivation: Evidence from EU-SILC

Eleni Karagiannaki and Tania Burchardt

Evidence from the 2014 EU-SILC indicates that a non-negligible proportion of children in Europe live in multi-family households. Leaving aside more complex household types, around 4% of children live with their grandpare...Read more...

22 June 2022

Economics of Industry Paper

Government financing of R&D: A mechanism design approach

Saul Lach, Zvika Neeman and Mark Schankerman

We study how to design an optimal government loan program for risky R&D projects with positive externalities. With adverse selection, the optimal government contract involves a high interest rate but nearly zero co-finan...Read more...

26 August 2020

CASEbrief

Caught between the local and the (trans)national: EU citizens at the front-line of German welfare policy

Nora Ratzmann

The study reflected on what happens when EU migrant applicants claim poverty-relieving, non-contributory UB II benefits in local German job centres. The data challenged the common pretence of EU policy debates that the s...Read more...

20 January 2020

Book

Decent incomes for all: Improving policies in Europe

Edited by Bea Cantillon, Tim Goedemé and John Hills

This book aims to shed new light on recent poverty trends in the European Union, responses by European welfare states, and how progress can be made to realize a decent income for all. The text analyzes the effect of ...Read more...

1 January 2018

Public Economics Programme Discussion Paper

European Identity and Redistributive Preferences

Joan Costa-Font and Frank A Cowell

How important is spatial identity in shifting preferences for redistribution? This paper takes advantage of within-country variability in the adoption of a single currency as an instrument to examine the impact of the re...Read more...

1 July 2015

Econometrics Paper

Non-Nested Testing of Spatial Correlation

Miguel A. Delgado and Peter M Robinson

We develop non-nested tests in a general spatial, spatio-temporal or panel data context. The spatial aspect can be interpreted quite generally, in either a geographical sense, or employing notions of economic distance, o...Read more...

25 November 2013

CASEpaper

The relationship between EU indicators of persistent and current poverty

Stephen P Jenkins and Philippe Van Kerm

The current poverty rate and the persistent poverty rate are both included in the EU’s portfolio of primary indicators of social inclusion. We show that there is a near-linear relationship between these two indicators ac...Read more...

1 March 2013

CASEreport

Leipzig City Report

Jorg Ploger

Econometrics Paper

Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood Estimation of ARCH(8) Models

Peter M Robinson and Paolo Zaffaroni

Strong consistency and asymptotic normality of the Gaussian pseudo-maximum likelihood estimate of the parameters in a wide class of ARCH(8) processes are established. We require the ARCH weights to decay at least hyperbo...Read more...

October 2005

Political Economy and Public Policy Paper

The Costs of Remoteness: Evidence from German Division and Reunification

Stephen J. Redding and Daniel M. Sturm

This paper exploits the division of Germany after the Second World War and the reunification of East and West Germany in 1990 as a natural experiment to provide evidence of the importance of market access for economic de...Read more...

August 2005

Political Economy and Public Policy Paper

Advanced Purchase Commitments for a Malaria Vaccine: Estimating Costs and Effectiveness

Ernst R. Berndt, Rachel Glennerster, Michael R. Kremer, Jean Lee, Ruth Levine and Georg Weizsäcker

To overcome the problem of insufficient research and development (R&D) on vaccines for diseases concentrated in low-income countries, sponsors could commit to purchase viable vaccines if and when they are developed. One ...Read more...

April 2005

International Studies Paper

The Korean Armistice of 1953 and its Consequences - Part I

Gordon Daniels and James Hoare

Hoare: Both North and South Korea claim victory in the Korean War. Yet neither makes much of the ending of the war in July 1953, and both have had problems coming to terms with the reality of the war. The reality is that...Read more...

February 2004

Econometrics Paper

Nonparametric Neural Network Estimation of Lyapunov Exponents and a Direct Test for Chaos

Oliver Linton and Mototsugu Shintani

This paper derives the asymptotic distribution of the nonparametric neural network estimator of the Lyapunov exponent in a noisy system. Positivity of the Lyapunov exponent is an operational definition of chaos. We intro...Read more...

May 2003

CASEpaper

Tasting Freedom: Happiness, religion and economic transition

Orsolya Lelkes

Economic transition lowered happiness on average, but did not affect all equally. This paper uses Hungarian survey data to study the impact of religion and economic transition on happiness. Religious involvement contribu...Read more...

August 2002

CASEpaper

Measuring Well-Being and Exclusion in Europe's Regions

Kitty Stewart

The Lisbon summit of the European Council in March 2000 declared the number of people living in poverty and social exclusion in the European Union to be unacceptable, and called for steps to tackle the issue, beginning w...Read more...

March 2002

Econometrics Paper

Nonparametric Neutral Network Estimation of Lyapunov Exponents and a Direct Test for Chaos

Oliver Linton and Mototsugu Shintani

This paper derives the asymptotic distribution of nonparametric neural network estimator of the Lyapunov exponent in a noisy system proposed by Nychka et al (1992) and others. Positivity of the Lyapunov exponent is an op...Read more...

March 2002

Japanese Studies Programme Paper

Business and Politics in Early 20th Century Japan

Masato Kimura and Peter von Staden

The paper by Masato Kimura seeks to clarify the contributions and limitations of Japanese business diplomacy by looking at the business mission to Britain and the US in 1921-22, and the Japanese Economic Mission to Europ...Read more...

March 2002

Econometrics Paper

Semi-Parametric Indirect Inference

Ramdan Dridi and Eric Renault

We develop in this paper a generalization of the Indirect Inference (II) to semi-parametric settings and termed Semi-parametric Indirect Inference (SII). We introduce a new notion of Partial Encompassing which lays the e...Read more...

May 2000

CASEpaper

The Class of '81: The effects of early-career unemployment on subsequent unemployment experiences

Simon Burgess, Carol Propper, Hedley Rees and Arran Shearer

We examine whether unemployment early in an individual's career influences her later employment prospects. We use six years of the LFS to create pseudo-cohorts and exploit cross-cohort variation in unemployment at school...Read more...

December 1999

Economics of Industry Paper

Modelling Price Behaviour in the European Car Market: 1970-1985

Yves Mertens

This paper is concerned with the determinants of car prices in four European countries: Belgium, France, Germany and the United Kingdom, over the period 1970-1985. The main focus of the study lies in explaining the level...Read more...

March 1990

Japanese Studies Programme Paper

A Historical Transformation From Feudalism to 'Capitalism'

Michio Morishima

'Where feudalism ends, the capitalist regime commences.' This familiar and prima facie self-evident statement is the proposition which I want to examine in this paper. I would argue as follows: Even given the uniformity ...Read more...

January 1986

Japanese Studies Programme Paper

The Role of Japan in the International Economy: A Private View

Michio Morishima

In earlier times economists used to view the world in terms of dual economic models. For Marx the Asiatic mode of production(1) was the concept which was the counterpart of the Western feudalism from which the capitalist...Read more...

January 1986