DISCUSSION PAPER: PRACTICAL METHODS

Discussion Paper

This paper discusses recent developments in the market for agricultural land in Slovakia related to the new law on land acquisition. The stated objective of this law is to protect agricultural land from non-agricultural use. We analyze landrelated data as reported by sellers in the newly established Registry of offers of agricultural land administered by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural De...

Discussion Paper

The financial and non-financial involvement of venture capitalists is supposed to be positively correlated with firm performance. This paper deals with the evaluation of the impact of venture capitalists on employment growth of new founded firms. Differences between high-tech and low-tech industries as well as the impact of other investors are analyzed. The estimation results show that survivin...

Discussion Paper

Discussion Paper

The views expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the policies of Statistics Netherlands Data sources referred to as Big data become available for use by NSIs. A major concern when considering if and how these data can be of value, is their potential selectivity. The data generating mechanisms underlying Big data vary widely, but have in common that the...

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Fatigue is defined as 'Failure under a repeated or otherwise varying load, which never reaches a level sufficient to cause failure in a single application.' Fatigue cracks always develop as a result of cyclic plastic deformation in a localised area. This plastic deformation often arises, not due to theoretical stresses in a perfect part, but rather due to the presence of a small crack or pre-ex...