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1 Prof. Dr. Mario Larch Lehrstuhl VWL VI: Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung Bachelor Vergleich von Prognoseverfahren für univariate Zeitreihen am Beispiel der deutschen Automobilindustrie (In Kooperation mit der Siemens AG) "Estimating spatial discrete choice models: a Bayesian approach" "Do border regions perform worse? An empirical analysis of economic activity and public goods provision in the border regions of Europe and Africa" Eine empirische Analyse der Determinanten der Stahlnachfrage in einem Länder-Panel (In Kooperation mit der Siemens AG) "The experimental approach: estimating the returns to schooling with treatment evaluation" "Informal Microbusinesses in Mexico: Does Crime Affect Female Entrepreneurs Differently?" "An Investigation of the Effects of Carbon Tariffs in a Two-Sector Gravity Model" "Culture and the Labour Market An Empirical Investigation" "Macroeconomics of Microfinance on a Sub-National Level" "Prediciting Volatility of Financial Time Series: The Case of the German DAX" "Rent Extraction and Voting Rules. Evidence from Germany." "Credit constraints on Mexican microenterprises" "Estimating the Impact of Environmental-Related Non-Tariff Measures on Trade" "Forecasting Realized Stock Market Volatility by Economic Variables" "Measuring trade policy lobbying: 'Protection for sale' and 2SLS" "Civil Wars and International Trade" "Technical Measures in Agri-Food Trade: Efficient Contribution to Food Safety as a Public Policy Goal or Disguised Protectionism?" "The Influence of Tuition Fees on the Number of University Freshmen in Germany - A Panel Data Analysis"

2 " Who invests in China? The effect of institutions on FDI" "An evaluation of gravity estimations using a Monte Carlo study" "Study Time v. Working Hours - The effects of parental migration on time allocations of children left behind" "Evidence for Profit Shifting and Simultaneous Equations" "Informal Micro-Enterprises in Mexico: Regional Differences" "Migrant Self-Selection - Evidence from the Age of Mass Migration" "Migration Policis and Migration Flows" "Foreign Direct Investment and Informality: An Empirical Investigation" "Commercail Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade during the Cold War" "An empirical analysis of trade flows after colonial independence" "Which Countries Sign BITs? An Empirical Analysis of the Determinants of Bilateral Investment Treaties" "FDI and Informality: A Micro-Data Analysis" "Empirical Strategies to Estimate the Euro's Dynamic Trade Effects" "Empirical Strategies for Estimating the Causal Effect of International Trade on Economic Growth: Applying Instrumental Variables to Solve the Problem of Endogeneity" "Institutional drivers of wind power development in Germany" "Are Gross Capital Flows Influencing the Financial Cycle? A Panel Data Analysis." "Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs - A Critical Replication of Ottaviano, Peri and Wright (2013)" "An Estimate of the Determinants of Migration Costs using Mexican - US Microdata" "The Empirics of International Trade and Income Differences: Analysis of a Structural Gravity Model with Asymmetric Trade Costs" Eine empirische Analyse zum Einfluss von Finanzmarkt- und Konjunkturindikatoren auf die Volatilität von Aktien "Child Labour and Education in Mexico - An empirical analysis using microdata" "Estimation of the Network Effect of Migration" "Evaluating the Impact of Regional Trade Agreements Based on Structural Gravity Estimation" "The Contribution of Structural Change to Labour Productivity Growth in Developing Countries" "A VAR-estimate of the impact of U.S. monetary policy shocks on the Mexican economy" "Did Kyoto make a difference? - An empircal analysis of how the Kyoto Protocol affected carbon emissions "

3 "Determinants of legal and illegal Migration from Mexico to the USA. An Empirical Analysis using Microdata" "Modeling Crude Oil Price Volatility: A GARCH Approach" "Estimating the cost of compliance with FTA rules: a threshold approach" "The Effect of Income and Immigration Policies on International Migration" "Looking Beyond the Average Quantile Treatment Effects" "Globalization, Structural Change and Productivity Growth" "Modelling and Forecasting Financial Volatility Using Realized Volatility" "Pollution, Shadow Economy and Corruption An Empirical Analysis" "An empirical analysis of capital control measures and financial stability" "Do oil price increases cause higher food price - A methodoligcal analysis of Baumeister and Killian 2014" "An Empirical Analysis of the Coase Theorem in Cap-and-Trade Programs: Does Allocation Matter?" "Replication and Econometric Analysis of the Paper "Buffalo Hunt: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison" by M. Scott Taylor" "Impact of Non-Tariff Measures on International Trade Flows: Evidence from Green Coffee Trade" "Unobserved Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Regression Discontinuity Designs: Evidence from Monte Carlo Studies" Master "General Equilibrium Treatment Effects" "Modellierung und Prognose der Stahlproduktion in Deutschland mit Vektorautoregressionen" "The link between trust, reciprocity and betrayal aversion - an experimental approach to interpersonal and cultural differences" "Lobbying behaviour of firms: An empirical analysis" "Forecasting Volatility using Multivariate GARCH Models - An Application to the Energy Sector" "The empirical nexus of corporate tax competition and income inequality" "Corporate Tax Competition and Spatial Econometrics Evidence for German Municipalities" "Trade Liberalization in a Ricardian World with Non-Homotheticity" "Estimating the Impact of Taxation on Different Types of FDI: Empirical Evidence from Micro Data"

4 "Treatment Effects Evaluation of Free Trade Agreements: An Application of Matching Econometrics" "Monte Carlo Simulations in International Trade with Limited Dependent Variables" "Does Trade prevent War? - An Empirical Investigation" "The Trade and Welfare Effects of Common Currencies in General Equilibrium" "Auswirkungen des US-Öl- und Gasbooms auf die Wertschöpfungsstruktur der chemischen Industrie" "The Value Chain, Chain position of Chinese Industries and its Changes over time: Findings and Implications" "Does Inflation Targeting foster Financial Imbalances?" "Reassessing the impact of policy changes on migration between OECD countries" "Multinational Firms and Taxes" "Forecasting Realized Stock Market Volatility an Assessment" "Evidence for Profit Shifting and Simultaneous Equations" "Dynamic Effects of PTAs: A Quantitative Analysis with Special Emphasis on TTIP" "Endogenous Preferential Trade Agreements and the Effects on the Automotive Industry" "Estimating the Cost of Compliance with FTA Rules: A Threshold Approach" "Estimating the extensive margin of trade" "What drives China's Power Demand? - A Cointegration Analysis" "The interaction of party governments and central banks in Latin America and the Caribbean: A comparison of different dynamic panel data estimators" "Determinants of Multilateral Environmental Agreements" "Safta and Afta: A Comparative Welfare Analysis Of Two Regional Trade Agreements" "The Energy Consumption - Growth Nexus: A Dynamic Panel Data Approach" "Discrete-time duration models - an analysis of work incapacity in health insurance" "Machine Learning in Econometrics: A Comparison of Propensity Score Matching and Random Forests to Evaluate Average and Heterogeneous Treatment Effects" "Shocks in the Copper Market and Investments: A Structural VAR Analysis" "The Globalisation Consequences of Degrowth"

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