Sökning: "two-stage least squares"

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1. 16. Women in the boardroom: Performance and Quotas

   Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Författare :Carl Fagergren; Samuel Hurst; [2012]
   Nyckelord :Keywords: Firm Performance; Women; Board of Directors; Quota; Canada; Corporate Governance; Gender.; Business and Economics;

   Sammanfattning : Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate how the percentage of female directors on a company’s board affects the firm’s performance. The empirical results of this thesis will be used to help decide whether Canada should establish a quota for female board members. LÄS MER

3. 17. Club Convergence in the European Union - Analyzing the Impact of the Financial Crisis of 2008

   D-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

   Författare :Johannes-Herkules Stefanoudakis; [2011]
   Nyckelord :Club Convergence; European Union; Financial Crisis; Conditional convergence; Spatial Dependencies;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this paper is to empirically identify the impact of the financial crisis of 2008 on the mechanisms of within-club convergence of GDP per capita, for the 27 member countries of the European Union. To tackle this issue, the author first uses spatial filtering methods to identify club formation under a concept of bimodal distribution and then proposes a two-stage framework in which unconditional and conditional convergence are estimated before and after the crisis period. LÄS MER

4. 18. On Causality and Robustness: Quantifying the causal effects between income, institutions and trade openness

   D-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

   Författare :Johan Lindgren; Alisa Senderovic; [2011]
   Nyckelord :Causality; Granger test; Instrumental variable; Institutions; Robustness;

   Sammanfattning : We investigate bi-directional causality between GDP per capita, the Kaufmann Rule of Law Index and trade as share of GDP using the Granger causality test. A larger data set than previously used in studies on causality is employed. We find that the various causal relationships depend on the countries under examination. LÄS MER

5. 19. Inkomstfördelningens roll för den ekonomiska tillväxten

   Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Författare :Sofia Lindqvist; [2011]
   Nyckelord :income inequality; economic growth; developed countries; Romer model; regression analysis; Business and Economics;

   Sammanfattning : This essay investigates the impact of income inequality on economic growth in developed countries. The link is primarily investigated through the possible influence of income inequality on the four growth channels savings, human capital, population growth and labor force productivity. LÄS MER

7. 20. Is discretionary fiscal policy a mitigating mechanism that counteracts business cycle fluctuations in the European Monetary Union?

   Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Författare :Sarah Ljunghammar; Sanna Agduhr Eronen; [2010]
   Nyckelord :Discretionary fiscal policies; business cycle fluctuations; Two-stage least squares; Business and Economics;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of the thesis is to evaluate the reaction in fiscal stance in EMU with the purpose to investigate if there is a need for discretionary fiscal policy as a stabilizing mechanism due to the existence of country-specific disparities in order to counteract business cycle fluctuations in the Monetary Union. The second objective is to analyse the role of discretionary fiscal policy during three downturns. LÄS MER