The goal of clustering is to partition the objects (here: persons) into groups which ideally should be homogenous and well-separated (i.e. low within-group and high between-groups heterogeneity). In the context…
Our paper analyzes the corporate financing behavior of German residential property companies. The German residential property industry is characterized by a predominance of nonlisted companies with different…
The education variable in the IAB datasets suffers from problems like missing and misclassified values. The data problems do not occur randomly, but are highly associated with other variables from the dataset.…
Do investments in international securitized real estate markets make a statistically significant contribution to an internationally diversified mixed-asset portfolio, and does currency risk exposure have an…
The theoretical literature suggests that upper-tier governments have an incentive to strategically allocate regional transfers in order to affect the electorate's opinion. This implies that citizens in targeted…