Jan P A M Jacobs
Biographic Data
| ID | 8493625 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan P A M Jacobs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan P A M |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacobs |
| SIGNATURE | JACOBS J P A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7994-5175 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What Drives Women Entrepreneurs in Tourism in Tanzania
In Tanzania, tourism is one of the most important sectors in terms of its contribution to the nation’s GDP, employment and investment. Women entrepreneurs play a substantial role in the tourism sector. This research contributes to the growing literature on their position in tourism. The study aims at investigating the role of women entrepreneurs in tourism in Tanzania. To find out what drives the women, their socio-economic background (mother edu…
Multivariate Trend‐Cycle‐Seasonal Decompositions with Correlated Innovations
Multivariate analysis can help to focus on important phenomena, including trend and cyclical movements, but any economic information in seasonality is typically ignored. The present paper aims to more fully exploit time series information through a multivariate unobserved component model for quarterly data that exhibits seasonality together with cross‐variable component correlations. We show that economic restrictions, including common trends, co…
Coherence of output gaps in the euro area
Using the measures proposed by Mink et al. (2012), we reexamine the coherence of business cycles in the euro area using a long sample period. We also analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on business cycle coherence and examine whether our measures for business cycle coherence indicate a core versus periphery within EMU. Our results suggest that business cycle coherence did not increase monotonically. The COVID-19 pandemic made that the sig…
Employment reconciliation and nowcasting
We construct a latent employment estimate for the United States, which both reconciles the information from separate payroll and household surveys and incorporates the preliminary data revision process of the payroll data. We find that our reconciled latent employment series looks somewhat different than the initial release of payroll employment and is closer to the fully revised data that is benchmarked to a near census of employment. A real‐tim…
Can GDP Measurement Be Further Improved? Data Revision and Reconciliation
Recent years have seen many attempts to combine expenditure-side estimates of U.S. real output (GDE) growth with income-side estimates (GDI) to improve estimates of real GDP growth. We show how to incorporate information from multiple releases of noisy data to provide more precise estimates while avoiding some of the identifying assumptions required in earlier work. This relies on a new insight: using multiple data releases allows us to distingui…
Health and wealth in the Roman Empire
Ancient Rome was the largest and most populous empire of its time, and the largest pre-industrial state in European history. Recent though not universally accepted research suggests that at least for the most populous central periods of its history standard of living was also rather higher than before or after. To trace whether this is also reflected in Roman biological standard of living, we present the first large and more or less comprehensive…
Religious Pluralism and Organizational Diversity
This study addresses the question as to why there are so many different kinds of organizations. It puts forth the general proposition that organizational diversity in a community is isomorphic to the heterogeneity of the composition of its population. Given that religion is a fundamental category of identity and association, with potentially far-reaching implications for social structure, we focus on religious pluralism. By linking religious plur…
In Memoriam Hans van Wieringen 1926–2010
On estimators for truncated height samples
Historical Time Series Analysis
This article sketches some developments in historical time series analysis, i.e. the application of sophisticated statistical and econometric techniques to historical time series. After that, we present five applications on the economic development of the Netherlands over the last two centuries, and discuss implications for research in economic history.
Height, income, and nutrition in the Netherlands
Output Effects of Transport Infrastructure
In this paper we put to trial the alleged role of investment in transport and communications infrastructure in economic growth in the Netherlands in the second half of the nineteenth century. To do so, we combine a new data set with data‐oriented econometric techniques. Testing of the main hypothesis by applying Granger's concept of causation in a vector auto‐regression model reveals that the development of infrastructure ‘caused’ Dutch economic …
De belangrijkste elementen van het Tetela-toonsysteem (Kasayi-Kivu, Congo)
Religious Pluralism and Organizational Diversity
This study addresses the question as to why there are so many different kinds of organizations. It puts forth the general proposition that organizational diversity in a community is isomorphic to the heterogeneity of the composition of its population. Given that religion is a fundamental category of identity and association, with potentially far-reaching implications for social structure, we focus on religious pluralism. By linking religious plur…
De belangrijkste elementen van het Tetela-toonsysteem (Kasayi-Kivu, Congo)
Output Effects of Transport Infrastructure
In this paper we put to trial the alleged role of investment in transport and communications infrastructure in economic growth in the Netherlands in the second half of the nineteenth century. To do so, we combine a new data set with data‐oriented econometric techniques. Testing of the main hypothesis by applying Granger's concept of causation in a vector auto‐regression model reveals that the development of infrastructure ‘caused’ Dutch economic …
Height, income, and nutrition in the Netherlands
Historical Time Series Analysis
This article sketches some developments in historical time series analysis, i.e. the application of sophisticated statistical and econometric techniques to historical time series. After that, we present five applications on the economic development of the Netherlands over the last two centuries, and discuss implications for research in economic history.
On estimators for truncated height samples
In Memoriam Hans van Wieringen 1926–2010
Religious Pluralism and Organizational Diversity
This study addresses the question as to why there are so many different kinds of organizations. It puts forth the general proposition that organizational diversity in a community is isomorphic to the heterogeneity of the composition of its population. Given that religion is a fundamental category of identity and association, with potentially far-reaching implications for social structure, we focus on religious pluralism. By linking religious plur…
Health and wealth in the Roman Empire
Ancient Rome was the largest and most populous empire of its time, and the largest pre-industrial state in European history. Recent though not universally accepted research suggests that at least for the most populous central periods of its history standard of living was also rather higher than before or after. To trace whether this is also reflected in Roman biological standard of living, we present the first large and more or less comprehensive…
Can GDP Measurement Be Further Improved? Data Revision and Reconciliation
Recent years have seen many attempts to combine expenditure-side estimates of U.S. real output (GDE) growth with income-side estimates (GDI) to improve estimates of real GDP growth. We show how to incorporate information from multiple releases of noisy data to provide more precise estimates while avoiding some of the identifying assumptions required in earlier work. This relies on a new insight: using multiple data releases allows us to distingui…
Employment reconciliation and nowcasting
We construct a latent employment estimate for the United States, which both reconciles the information from separate payroll and household surveys and incorporates the preliminary data revision process of the payroll data. We find that our reconciled latent employment series looks somewhat different than the initial release of payroll employment and is closer to the fully revised data that is benchmarked to a near census of employment. A real‐tim…
What Drives Women Entrepreneurs in Tourism in Tanzania
In Tanzania, tourism is one of the most important sectors in terms of its contribution to the nation’s GDP, employment and investment. Women entrepreneurs play a substantial role in the tourism sector. This research contributes to the growing literature on their position in tourism. The study aims at investigating the role of women entrepreneurs in tourism in Tanzania. To find out what drives the women, their socio-economic background (mother edu…
Multivariate Trend‐Cycle‐Seasonal Decompositions with Correlated Innovations
Multivariate analysis can help to focus on important phenomena, including trend and cyclical movements, but any economic information in seasonality is typically ignored. The present paper aims to more fully exploit time series information through a multivariate unobserved component model for quarterly data that exhibits seasonality together with cross‐variable component correlations. We show that economic restrictions, including common trends, co…
Coherence of output gaps in the euro area
Using the measures proposed by Mink et al. (2012), we reexamine the coherence of business cycles in the euro area using a long sample period. We also analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on business cycle coherence and examine whether our measures for business cycle coherence indicate a core versus periphery within EMU. Our results suggest that business cycle coherence did not increase monotonically. The COVID-19 pandemic made that the sig…
Economics (9 works) · Econometrics (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Monetary Policy and Economic Impact (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Demography (3 works)