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The size and development of the shadow economies of 22 transition and 21 OECD countries

Schneider, Friedrich - 2002

Using the currency demand and DYMIMIC approaches estimates are presented about the size of the shadow economy in 22 Transition and 21 OECD countries. Over 2001/2002 in 21 OECD countries is the average size of the shadow economy (in percent of official GDP) 16.7% of "official" GDP and of 22...

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Higher productivity in importing German manufacturing firms : self-selection, learning from importing, or both?

Vogel, Alexander (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2008

This paper uses a newly available comprehensive panel data set for manufacturing enterprises from 2001 to 2005 to document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the world market for goods. Furthermore, for the first time...

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Exports and profitability : first evidence for German manufacturing firms

Fryges, Helmut (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2008

Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality longitudinal data at the enterprise level for Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It documents that the positive profitability differential of...

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Works councils, labor productivity and plant heterogeneity : evidence from quantile regressions

Wagner, Joachim; Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Using quantile regressions and a rich cross section data set for German manufacturing plants, this paper reports that the impact of works councils on labor productivity varies along the conditional distribution of value added per employee. It emerges that the positive and statistically...

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Corruption and the shadow economy : an empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel (contributor); Schneider, Friedrich (contributor) - 2006

This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption and shadow economy are substitutes in high income countries while they are complements in low income countries. The hypotheses are tested for a cross-section of 120 countries and...

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Corruption and the shadow economy : a structural equation model approach

Bühn, Andreas; Schneider, Friedrich - 2009

The relationship between corruption and the shadow economy is not clear. Theoretically, they either substitute or complement each other -exhibiting either a negative or positive relationship. This paper -using a structural equation model with two latent variables - extracts information on...

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Shadow economies and corruption all over the world : what do we really know?

Schneider, Friedrich (contributor) - 2006

estimation methods are discussed and critically evaluated"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site …

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Productivity premia for German manufacturing firms exporting to the Euro-area and beyond : first evidence from robust fixed effects estimations

Verardi, Vincenzo; Wagner, Joachim - 2010

estimates of the productivity premium of German firms exporting to the Euro-zone and beyond, controlling for unobserved time … invariant firm specific effects, and tests for self-selection of more productive firms into exporting beyond the Euro-zone. (3 … Euro-zone only is no longer much smaller that the premium of firms that export beyond the Euro-zone, too, and the premium …

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The (hidden) financial flows of terrorist organizations : a literature review and some preliminary empirical results

Schneider, Friedrich - 2010

the help of a latent estimation approach (MIMIC procedure). The figures show that Al Qaeda and other terror organizations …

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The exporter productivity premium along the productivity distribution : first evidence from a quantile regression approach for fixed effects data models

Powell, David; Wagner, Joachim - 2010

An emerging literature on international activities of heterogeneous firms documents that exporting firms are more productive than firms that only sell on the national market. This positive exporter productivity premium shows up in a large number of empirical studies after controlling for...

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