In a study of the determinants of regional unemployment rates using pooled cross sections, the coefficients of the year dummies may reveal: Your answer: O there is no economic information that can be retrieved from these coefficients. O regional effects, which affect all cities equally, as long as they are a member of that region. O attitude differences towards unemployment between regions. macroeconomic effects, which affect all regions equally in a given year.

In a study of the determinants of regional unemployment rates using pooled cross sections, the coefficients of the year dummies may reveal: Your answer: O there is no economic information that can be retrieved from these coefficients. O regional effects, which affect all cities equally, as long as they are a member of that region. O attitude differences towards unemployment between regions. macroeconomic effects, which affect all regions equally in a given year.

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Chapter1: Making Economics Decisions

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