A Microeconometric Comparison of Household Behavior Between Countries
用德国和美国的面板数据，比较两国住房消费和男性劳动供给的差异，发现控制人口和宏观冲击后，两国的结构参数惊人相似。
This article reviews the methodological issues associated with estimating and testing competitive markets with panel data and applies it to an important new arena, international economics. We investigate differences in housing consumption and male labor supply across households in Germany and the United States with data from the German Socio Economic Panel and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Observations are treated as equilibrium outcomes, generated by a set of competitive markets that accommodate varying degrees of integration. After controlling for differences in the sample populations and aggregate shocks, we find that the estimated structural parameters are surprisingly similar across these two countries.