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Will more higher education improve economic growth?

Calls for expanded university education are frequently based on arguments that more graduates will lead to faster growth. Empirical analysis does not, however, support this general proposition. Differences in cognitive skills—the knowledge capital of countries—can explain most of the differences in growth rates across countries, but just adding more years of schooling without increasing cogniti...

Determinants of Economic Growth: Will Data Tell?

Many factors inhibiting and facilitating economic growth have been suggested. Will international income data tell which matter when all are treated symmetrically a priori? We find that growth determinants emerging from agnostic Bayesian model averaging and classical model selection procedures are sensitive to income differences across datasets. For example, many of the 1975-1996 growth determin...

Economic Hysteresis in German Hog Production

Background and objective Intensive livestock farming in Germany is characterized by two facts. First, the production seems hardly to respond to the considerable price changes that occurred during the past decades. Second, the spatial allocation of production is rather unequal, though no special natural conditions are required for this business. Such an unequal distribution is not desired by agr...

German Economic Association of Business Administration - Geaba

Using a panel data set of 361 German corporations for the period 1991 to 1996 we test the hypothesis that firms with more efficient governance structures have higher profitabilities. To determine efficiency we compare firms with respect to ownership concentration, the identity of owners, capital structure, investment and firm growth by a multi-input/multi-output Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)....

Economic Status of Older German Immigrants