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The Third Annual Conference of the International Competition Network (ICN) was held in Seoul, Korea, on April 21-22, 2004. An ICN panel on Improving the Effectiveness of Competition Advocacy was presented the day before the Annual Conference during the Seoul Competition Forum 2004. The Conference was opened by Dr. Chul-kyu Kang, Chairman, Korea Fair Trade Commission and host of the...

Discussion paper#### Optimal bandwidth choice for matching estimators and their finite sample properties are examined. An approximation to their MSE is derived, as a basis for a plug-in bandwidth selector. In small samples, this approximation is not very accurate, though. Alternatively, conventional cross-validation bandwidth selection is considered and performs rather well. Compared...

revised version of Discussion paper 2001-16#### A new semiparametric estimator for estimating conditional expectation functions from incomplete data is proposed, which integrates parametric regression with nonparametric matching estimators. Besides its applicability to missing data situations due to non-response or attrition, the estimator can also be used for analyzing treatment...

Working Paper, BETA, Strasbourg#### not available in German This empirical study investigates the ratification behaviour of ILO member states. We use a multivariate hazard model for the analysis of data on the timing of ratifications of different conventions. The model accounts for two random effects, one at the country level and the other at the convention level. We use a semi-...

Manuscript#### not available in German Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain and rising continental European unemployment (with rather stable wage inequality) have led to a popular view in the economics profession that these two phenomena are related to negative relative demand shocks against the unskilled in the industrialised world, combined with flexible wages in the...

1.) "Suiza busca atraer más inversiones mexicanas"; Textinterview von Marcela Águila Rubín mit Thomas A. Zimmermann / Entrevistas de texto de Marcela Águila Rubín con Thomas A. Zimmermann: Download pdf-Datei / Descargar el archivo PDF: (93 KB / KO); Quelle: http://www.swissinfo.org/ses/...

La sociologie du risque apparaît être un domaine scientifique pertinent pour conduire l'étude des guerres et l'analyse des conditions de l'action d'urgence en situation extrême. La guerre ne peut plus être seulement étudiée comme la seule relation entre des objectifs et des moyens, elle doit intégrer les conditions de "sortie" de guerre qui relèvent de...