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Bank Competition and Firm Growth in the Enlarged European Union

Pellényi, Gábor; Borkó, Tamás - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

We examine the impact of bank competition and institutional factors on net firm entry in a sample of European … find that bank competition helps firm entry. In addition, better institutions - especially legal structure and property …

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Bank Competition and Firm Growth in the Enlarged European Union

Pellényi, Gábor; Borkó, Tamás - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

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Industry-Specific Knowledge Spurs Productivity: An Application of Panel Cointegration

Zloczysti, Petra - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

linkage between channels of international knowledge spillovers and total factor productivity. We distinguish between domestic … contribution of technology transfer to industrial productivity. To account for technological distance, we weight foreign knowledge … mainly drives productivity in the respective sector. …

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Leading Indicators of Euroland Business Cycles

Fritsche, Ulrich; Marklein, Felix - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001

Die Einführung einer gemeinsamen Geldpolitik in elf europäischen Ländern erhöhte die Bedeutung von konjunkturellen Frühindikatoren für dieses Gebiet. Brauchbare Frühindikatoren sollten folgende Eigenschaften besitzen: (1) Die konjunkturellen Bewegungen des Frühindikators sollten denen...

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Vorlaufeigenschaften von Ifo-Indikatoren für Westdeutschland

Fritsche, Ulrich - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 1999

Ifo business climate and other Ifo indicators will be investigated to assess its properties. Properties of Ifo indicators either following the old institutional classification or the newer possibility of use classification will be checked against long-term time series according the new...

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Multinational Companies, Technology Spillovers, and Plant Survival

Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

This paper examines the effect of the presence of multinational companies on plant survival in the host country. We postulate that multinational companies can impact positively on plant survival through technology spillovers. We study the nature of the effect of multinationals using a Cox...

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Do Probit Models Help in Forecasting Turning Points in German Business Cycles?

Fritsche, Ulrich - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001

In diesem Artikel wird ein Datensatz benutzt, mit dem auch in einer begleitenden Untersuchung die Frühindikatoreigenschaften verschiedener Reihen für den deutschen Konjunkturzyklus getestet wurden. Um die Fähigkeit, Rezessionen zu prognostizieren, zu testen, wird der von Estrella/Mishkin...

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Outsourcing and Firm-level Performance

Görzig, Bernd; Stephan, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

Using firm-level panel data from the German cost structure survey over the period 1992 to 2000, our empirical analysis shows that firms that increased material inputs relative to internal labor costs performed better in terms of gross operating surplus than other firms. However, firms that...

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The Influence of Collusion on Price Changes: New Evidence from Major Cartel Cases

Blanckenburg, Korbinian von; Geist, Alexander; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

In this paper, we compare the distribution of price changes between collusive and noncollusive periods for ten major cartels. The first moments focus on previous research. We extend the discussion to the third (skewness) and fourth (kurtosis) moments. However, none of the above descriptive...

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Do External Technology Acquisitions Matter for Innovative Efficiency and Productivity?

Gantumur, Tseveen; Stephan, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

technology affects the efficiency and productivity in innovation of technology acquiring firms. Using the stochastic frontier … innovative productivity than non-acquiring firms do. Thus, this study provides evidence on complementarity between internal and … efficiency. Moreover, we find that firm size significantly contributes to innovative efficiency and productivity of external …

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