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Linearizing Nonlinear Gravity Models: Biased BvOLS Versus Unbiased Alternatives (with Peter Egger), Journal of Regional Science, 2024, forthcoming.
Replication package


Cross-Sectional Gravity Models, PPML Estimation, and the Bias Correction of the Two-Way Cluster-Robust Standard Errors, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and  Statistics 85(5), 2023, 1111-1134.
http://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12553

Online Appendix


Revisiting Time as a Trade Barrier: Evidence from a Panel Structural Gravity Model (with Harald Oberhofer and Richard Sellner), Review of International Economics 29(5), 2021, pp. 1382-1417.
http://doi.org/10.1111/roie.12547

Confidence Intervals for the Trade Cost Parameters of Cross-Section Gravity Models, Economics Letters 201, 2021.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2021.109787

Estimating the Trade and Welfare Effects of Brexit: A Panel Data Structural Gravity Model (with Harald Oberhofer), Canadian Journal of Economics 54(1), 2021, pp. 338-375
https://doi.org/10.1111/caje.12494
Online Appendix

Data archive

Trade Creation and Trade Diversion of Economic Integration Agreements Revisited: A Constrained Panel Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood Approach, Review of World Economics 156, 2020, pp. 985-1024.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10290-020-00389-9
Data and stata replication files

Constrained Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Structural Gravity Models, International Economics 161, 2020, pp. 188-198.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inteco.2019.11.014
Online Appendix
Stata code
Data Archive

Gravity Models, PPML Estimation and the Bias of the Robust Standard Errors, Applied Economic Letters 26(18), 2019, pp. 1467-1471.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2019.1581902
Online Appendix

Product Quality and Sustainability: The Effect of International Environmental Agreements on Bilateral Trade (with Stefan Borsky and Andrea Leiter-Scheiring), World Economy 41(11), 2018, pp. 3098-3129.
Borsky_Leiter_Pfaffermayr-2018-The_World_Economy.pdf

Decomposing Services Exports Adjustments along the Intensive and Extensive Margin at the Firm-Level (with Elisabeth Christen and Yvonne Wolfmayr), Review of International Economics 27(1), 2018. pp. 155-183.
https://doi.org/10.1111/roie.12365

The More the Merrier? (with Lorenz Benedikt Fischer), Regional Science and Urban Economics, 72, 2018, 103-114.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2017.04.007

Who Creates Jobs? Econometric Modeling and Evidence for Austrian Firm Level (with Harald Oberhofer and Peter Huber), European Economic Review 91, 2017, 57-71.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2016.09.008

A Generalized Spatial Error Components Model for Gravity Equations (with Peter Egger), Empirical Economics 50(1), 2016, 177-195.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00181-015-0980-5

Panel Data Gravity Models of International Trade (with Badi Baltagi and Peter Egger) in Baltagi (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Panel Data, Oxford University Press, 2015, 608-642.

A GMM-based Test for Normal Disturbances of the Heckman Sample Selection Model, Econometrics 2(4), 2014, 151-168,
http://www.mdpi.com/2225-1146/2/4/151/pdf.
Stata ado-file: HN.ado

Two-Part Models for Fractional Responses Defined as Ratios of Integers (with Harald Oberhofer), Econometrics 2(3), 2014, 123-144,
http://www.mdpi.com/2225-1146/2/3/123/pdf.

Transfer Pricing as a Tax Compliance Risk (with Sven P. Jost and Hannes Winner), Accounting and Business Research 44 (3), 2014, 260-279.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00014788.2014.883062

Job Creation and the Intra-distribution Dynamics of the Firm Size Distribution (with Peter Huber and Harald Oberhofer), Industrial and Corporate Change 23(1), 2014, 171-197.
https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtt055

The Cliff and Ord Test for Spatial Correlation of the Disturbances in Unbalanced Panel Models, International Regional Science Review 36(4), 2013, 492-506.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0160017613484925

The Pure Effects of European Integration on Intra-EU Trade (with Peter Egger), World Economy 36(6), 2013, 701-712.
https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.12065

Firm Growth in Multinational Corporate Groups (with Harald Oberhofer), Empirical Economics 44(3), 2013, 1435-1453.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00181-012-0579-z

Capital Structure, Corporate Taxation and Firm Age (with Matthias Stoeckl and Hannes Winner), Fiscal Studies 34(1), 2013, pp. 109-135.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5890.2013.00179.x

A Generalized Spatial Panel Data Model with Random Effects (with Badi H. Baltagi and Peter Egger), Econometric Reviews 32(5-6), 2013, pp. 650-685.
https://doi.org/10.1080/07474938.2012.742342

Fractional Response Models - A Replication Exercise of Papke and Wooldridge (1996) (with Harald Oberhofer), Contemporary Economics 6(3), 2012, pp. 56-64.

Spatial Convergence of Regions Revisited: A Spatial Maximum Likelihood Panel Approach, Journal of Regional Science 52(5), 2012, pp. 857--873.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9787.2012.00773.x

FDI vs. Exports, Substitutes of Complements? -- A three Nations Model and Empirical Evidence (with Harald Oberhofer), World Economy 35(3), 2012, pp. 316--330.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9701.2011.01403.x

Are there border effects in the EU wage function? (with Peter Huber and Yvonne Wolfmayr), DANUBE Law and Economics Review 2, 2011, pp. 23-41, 2011.

The Spatial Random Effects and the Spatial Fixed Effects Model. The Hausman Test in a Cliff and Ord Panel Model (with Jan Mutl), Econometrics Journal 14(1), 2011, pp. 48-76.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1368-423X.2010.00325.x

A Note on the Cliff and Ord Test for Spatial Correlation in Panel Models (with Jan Mutl), Economics Letters 108(2), 2010, pp. 225-228.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2010.04.043

Structural Funds, EU Enlargement, and the Redistribution of FDI in Europe  (with Peter Egger and Fritz Breuss), Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv/Review of World Economics 146(3), 2010, pp. 469-494.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10290-010-0059-5

Testing for Conditional Convergence in Variance and Skewness: The Firm Size Distribution Revisited (with Peter Huber), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 72(5), 2010, pp. 648-668.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0084.2010.00595.x

Firm-specific Forward-looking Effective Tax Rates (with Peter Egger, Simon Loretz and Hannes Winner), International Tax and Public Finance 16, 2009, pp. 850-870.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10797-009-9124-1


Bilateral Effective Tax Rates and Foreign Direct Investment (with Peter Egger, Simon Loretz and Hannes Winner), International Tax and Public Finance 16, 2009, pp. 822-849.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10797-008-9092-x


Small Sample Properties of Maximum Likelihood versus Generalized Method of Moments Based Tests for Spatially Autocorrelated Errors (with Peter Egger, Larch, Mario, Janette Walde), Regional Science and Urban Economics 39 (6), 2009, pp. 670-678.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2008.09.003


Social Capital Formation and Intra-familial Correlation: A Social Panel Perspective (with Christoph Hauser, Gottfried Tappeiner and Janette Walde, Singapore Economic Review 54(3), 2009, pp. 473-488.
https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217590809003434


Maximum Likelihood Estimation of a General Unbalanced Spatial Random Effects Model - A Monte Carlo Study, Spatial Economic Analysis 4 (4), 2009, pp. 467-483.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17421770903317645


Matlab programs: gendata; balanced panel: gspre_bal , gspre_mle_bal; unbalanced panel: gspre_unbal , gspre_mle_unbal.


The Law of One Price: Conditional Convergence Evidence from Disaggregated Data (with Peter Egger and Stephan Gruber), Applied Economics 41 (26), 2009, pp. 3345-3357.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00036840701426584


On Testing Conditional Sigma-Convergence (with Peter Egger), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 71 (4), 2009, pp. 453-473.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0084.2007.00467.x

Conditional β- and σ-Convergence in Space: A Maximum Likelihood Approach, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 39 (1), 2009, pp. 63-78.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2008.06.004


Estimating Regional Trade Agreement Effects on FDI in an Interdependent World (with Badi H. Baltagi and Peter Egger), Journal of Econometrics 145 (1-2), 2008, pp. 194-208.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2008.05.017

The EU's Attitude Towards Eastern Enlargement in Space (with Peter Egger, Mario Larch and Janette Walde), Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Comparative Economics 36 (1), 2008, pp.142-156. 
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2007.07.003

Knowledge Capital Meets New Economic Geography (with Peter Egger, Stefan Gruber and Mario Larch), Annals of Regional Science, 41 (4), 2007, pp. 857-875.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00168-007-0129-3


Firm Growth under Sample Selection: Conditional σ-Convergence in Firm Size?, Review of Industrial Organization 31(4), 2007, pp. 303-328. 
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11151-008-9159-y


Bilateral versus Multilateral Trade and Investment Liberalization (with Peter Egger and Mario Larch), The World Economy
30(4), 2007, pp. 567-96.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9701.2007.01005.x

On the Welfare Effects of Trade and Investment Liberalization (with Peter Egger and Mario Larch), European Economic Review
51(3), 2007, pp. 669-694.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2006.03.007

Sectoral Adjustment of Employment: The Impact of Outsourcing and Trade at the Micro Level (with Peter Egger and Andrea Weber), Journal of Applied Econometrics
22(3), 2007,  pp. 559-580.
https://doi.org/10.1002/jae.914

A Monte Carlo Study for Pure and Pretest Estimators of a Panel Data Model with Spatially Autocorrelated Disturbances (Badi H. Baltagi and Peter Egger, Annales d' Economie et de Statistique 87-88, 2007, pp. 11--38.
https://doi.org/10.2307/27650040


Estimating Models of Complex FDI: Are There Third-Country Effects? (Badi H. Baltagi and Peter Egger), Journal of Econometrics 140(1), 2007, pp. 260-281.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2006.09.009

Trade in Western and Eastern Europe in the Aftermath of COMECON: An Assessment of Behavioural Change (with Peter Egger and Roland Schmidt), Oxford Economic Papers
59 (1), 2007, pp 102 - 126.

The Impact of Endogenous Tax Treaties on Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Empirical Evidence (with Peter Egger, Mario Larch and Hannes Winner), Canadian Journal of Economics
39 (3), 2006, pp. 901-931.

Spatial Convergence (with Peter Egger), Papers in Regional Science
85 (2), 2006, pp. 199-215.

Firm Performance after Ownership Change: A Matching Estimator Approach (with Christian Bellak and Michael Wild), Applied Economics  Quarterly
52(1), 2006, pp. 29-54.

The Determinants of Intra-Firm Trade: In Search form Export-Import Magnification Effects (with Peter Egger),  Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv/Review of World Economics 141(4), 2005. pp. 648 - 669.

A Note on Export Openness and Regional Disparity in Central and Eastern Europe (with Peter Egger and Peter Huber ), Annals of Regional Science 39 (1), 2005, pp. 63-72.

An Unbalanced Spatial Panel Data Approach to US State Tax Competition (with Peter Egger and Hannes Winner), Economics Letters 88 (3), 2005, pp. 329-335.

Commodity Taxation in a Linear World: A Spatial Panel Data Approach (with Peter Egger and Hannes Winner), Regional Science and Urban Economics 35 (5), 2005, pp. 527-541.

Trade, Multinationals Sales, and FDI in a Three-Factors Model (with Peter Egger), Review of International Economics 13 (4), 2005, pp. 659-675.

Concentration and Multinationality in European Manufacturing: What's the Effect on Productivity?  (with Peter Egger), Empirica 31 (4), 2004, pp. 325-332.

The Impact of Bilateral Investment Treaties on FDI (with Peter Egger), Journal of Comparative Economics 32 (4), 2004, pp. 788-804.

Two Dimensions of Convergence: National and International Wage Adjustment Effects of Cross-Border Outsourcing in Europe (with Peter Egger), Review of International Economics 12 (5), 2004, pp. 833-843.

Short Run and Long Run Effects in Static Panel Models (with Peter Egger), Econometric Reviews 23 (3), 2004, pp. 199 - 214.

Export Orientation, Foreign Affiliates, and the Growth of Austrian Manufacturing Firms, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 54(3), 2004, pp. 411-423.

Foreign Direct Investment and European Integration in the 90s (with Peter Egger), The World Economy  27 (1), 2004, pp. 99-110.

Convergence in Structure and Productivity in European Manufacturing? (with Klaus Gugler), German Economic Review,  5(1), 2004, pp. 61-79.

Distance, Trade and FDI: A SUR Hausman-Taylor Approach (with Peter Egger), Journal of Applied Econometrics 19(2), 2004, pp. 227-246.

The Single Market and the Geographic Concentration in Europe (with Karl Aiginger), Review of International Economics 12 (1), 2004, pp. 1-11.

A Generalized Design for Bilateral Trade Flow Models (with Badi H. Baltagi and Peter Egger),  Economics Letters 80(3), 2003, pp. 391-397.

The Proper Econometric Specification of the Gravity Equation: A Three-Way Model With Bilateral Interaction Effects (with Peter Egger), Empirical Economics 28 (3), 2003,
pp. 571-580.

The Impact of Agenda 2000's Structural Policy Reform on FDI in the EU (with Frith Breuss and Peter Egger), Journal of Policy Modeling  23/7, 2001, pp. 811-824. 

The International Fragmentation of the Value Added Chain: The Effects of Outsourcing to Eastern Europe on Productivity and Wages in Austrian Manufacturing (with Peter Egger and Yvonne Wolfmayr-Schnitzer),  The North American Journal of Economics and Finance 12(3), 2001, pp. 257-272.

Employment in Domestic Plants and Foreign Affiliates: A Note on the Elasticity of Substitution, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 137(2), 2001, pp. 347-364.

A Note on Labor Productivity and Foreign Inward Direct Investment (with Peter Egger), Applied Economics Letters 8, 2001, pp. 229-232.

Conjectural Variation Models and Supergames with Price-Competition in a Differentiated Product Oligopoly, Journal of Economics 70(3),1999, pp.209-326.

Ownership Advantages, Foreign Production and Productivity - Evidence from Austrian Manufacturing, The Review of Industrial Organisation 15(4), 1999, pp. 379-396.

Product Quality, Cost Asymmetry and the Welfare Loss of Oligopoly (with Karl Aiginger), International Journal of the Economics of Business 6(2), 1999, pp. 165-180.

Multinationals, Production Externalities, and Complementarity between Domestic and Foreign Activities?, Swiss Journal of Economic and Statistics 133(4), 1997, 473-690. 

Looking at the Cost Side of Monopoly (with K. Aiginger), Journal of Industrial Economics XLV, 1997, pp. 245-267.

Profitability Differences: Persistency and Determinants as Revealed in a Dynamic Panel Approach  (with K. Aiginger), Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften 117, 1997, pp. 85-105.

Technological Competition and Trade Performance (with M. Landesmann), Applied Economics 29, 1997, pp. 179-196.

Ownership Advantages, Home Production, Foreign Production and Exports - Some Evidence from Austrian Direct Investing Firms, Empirica 23 (3), 1996, pp. 317-328.

Foreign Outward Direct Investment and Exports in Austrian Manufacturing: Substitutes or Complements?, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 132 (3), 1996, pp. 501-522.

Foreign Direct Investment and Exports: A Time Series Approach, Applied Economics 26, 1994, pp. 337-351.

Farm Income, Market Wages, and Off-Farm Labour Supply (with Ch.R. Weiss and J. Zweimueller), Empirica 18 (2), 1991.

 

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS AND PAPERS IN NON-REFEREED JOURNALS


Lohn- und Besch
äftigungseffekte von Europäischen Unternehmensfusionen (mit Harald Oberhofer, in Josef Nussbaumer, Gerald Pruckner, Rupert Sausgruber und Hannes Winner (eds.), Gesundheits- und Sozialpolitik im Diskurs, Festschrift für Engelbert Theurl zum 60. Geburtstag, Wien et al., Springer, 2011, pp. 59-80.

Unternehmensbesteuerung, internationale Direktinvestitionen und die Steuerreform 2005 in Osterreich (mit Simon Loretz und Hannes Winner), Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter 51 (4), 2004, pp. 495-505.

Market Potential and Border Effects in Europe (Mit Peter Huber und Yvonne Wolfmayr), Access Lab, Workpackage No. 6, 2005.

Austria's Performance within an Integrating European Economy in Gehler, Michael, Anton Pelinka und Günter Bischof (Hg.), Österreich in der Europäischen Union - Bilanz seiner Mitgliedschaft, Böhlau-Verlag, Wien, 2003.

Why Foreign-owned Firms are Different: A Conceptual Framework and Empirical Evidence for Austria (with Christain Bellak) in Jungnickel, Rolf (ed.) Foreign-owned Firms, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

Die Auswirkungen der Reform der Strukturpolitik in der Agenda 2000 auf die Verteilung der passiven Direkt-
investitionen in der EU (with Fritz Breuss and Peter Egger), Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter 49, pp. 91-98, 2002. 

The Impact of (Changes in) Corporate Structure on Price Dispersion, Productivity and Profits in EU Manufacturing (with Peter Egger), in: I. De Voldere, J. Reynaerts, K. Rommens, L. Sleuwaegen, R. Veugelers  (coordinators), Determinants of Industrial Concentration, Market Integration and Efficiency in the European Union, Study for DG Economic & Financial Affairs, European Economy, 2001,  pp. 103-111. 

Outsourcing of Austrian Manufacturing to Eastern Countries: Effects on Productivity and the Labor Market, (with R. Dell'mour, P. Egger, K. Gugler, Y. Wolfmayr-Schnitzer) in Arndt. S., Handler, H., Salvatore D., Eastern Enlargement: The Sooner, the Better ?  Austrian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Labour, 2000.

Profitability Differences, Market Power and Competition Policy in Transition Countries - an Overview of Methodology and Econometric Models of Market Power and Concentration  (with Karl Aiginger), Final research report, PHARE ACE project No.
P-2035, 2000.

Firmenspezifische Assets, Auslandsproduktion und Produktivität-Evidenz für österreichsiche Industriefirmen in R. Döhrn und G. Heiduk, Theorie und Empirie der Direktinvestitionen, Schriftenreihe des RWI, N.F. Band 65, 1999. S. 55-74.

Theoretische Grundlagen der Globalisierungsdiskussion - Teil 2 (mit Peter Egger), Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft , 2/1999.

Theoretische Grundlagen der Globalisierungsdiskussion - Teil 1 (mit Peter Egger), Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft , 1/1999.

Die ¨stylized facts¨ der Globalisierung aus makro- und mikroökonomischer Sicht, in Fusionen und Übernahmen, Beiträge zur Wirtschaftspolitik 4, Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte, Wien, 1998, pp. 19-43. 

Globalisierungstendenzen in der österreichischen Wirtschaft, Corporate Citizenship als neue wirtschaftspolitrische Herausforderung (with F. R. Hahn and P. Mooslechner) Beiträge zur Wirtschaftspolitik 2, Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte, Wien, 1996.

Direktinvestitionen im Ausland: Die Determinanten der Direktinvestitionen im Ausland und ihre Wirkung auf den Außenhandel, Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1996.

Die Determinanten der Direktinvestitionen im Ausland und ihre Wirkung auf die Exporttätigkeit: Ein kurzer Überblick der theoretischen Erklärungsansätze-Teil 2, 1995, Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter 3-4/95.

Die Determinanten der Direktinvestitionen im Ausland und ihre Wirkung auf die Exporttätigkeit: Ein kurzer Überblick der theoretischen Erklärungsansätze-Teil 1, 1995, Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter 2/95.

Monitoring Unemployment Dynamics in Poland, A Report to the Minister of Labour and Social Policy (with M. Riese and L. Flaschberger), OECD-CCEET, 1993, Linz.

Humankapital und Arbeitsmarktpartizipation von Landwirten (with Ch.R. Weiss and J. Zweimüller), in: "Internationalisierung und ihre Folgen für die Landwirtschaft, Sonderausgabe der Zeitschrift "Förderungsdienst", 1991, Wien.


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