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Employee trust and workplace performance

Brown, Sarah; Gray, Daniel; McHardy, Jolian P.; Taylor, Karl - 2014

We explore the relationship between employee trust of managers and workplace performance. We present a theoretical framework which serves to establish a link between employee trust and firm performance as well as to identify possible mechanisms through which the relationship may operate. We then...

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Explaining export success in the UK and German medical equipment industry

Anderton, Bob; Schultz, Siegfried - 1999

This paper aims to provide understanding of the relative trade performances and technological competitiveness, with particular emphasis on product quality, innovation and skills. The firm-level case studies support the conclusions arising from the aggregate analysis. Germany spends more on...

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The impact of teams on output, quality and downtime : an empirical analysis using individual panel data

Jones, Derek Charles (contributor); Kato, Takao (contributor) - 2007

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The effects of enforcement on illegal markets : evidence from migrant smuggling along the Southwestern border

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Stationarity changes in long-run fossil resource prices : evidence from persistence break testing

Zaklan, Aleksandar; Abrell, Jan; Neumann, Anne - 2011

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Responsive adjustment of feed-in tariffs to dynamic PV technology development

Grau, Thilo - 2012

This paper reviews the adjustments of the feed-in tariff for new solar photovoltaics (PV) installations in Germany. As PV system prices declined rapidly over the last years, the German government implemented automatic mechanisms to adjust the support level for new installations in response to...

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Measuring regional inequality by internet car price advertisements : evidence for Germany

Cholodilin, Konstantin Arkadʹevič; Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2010

We suggest to use Internet car sale price advertisements for measuring economic inequality between and within German … price advertisements ; economic inequality ; German NUTS1 and NUTS regions ; Gini index ; Internet …

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Consumer price adjustment under the microscope : Germany in a period of low inflation

Hoffmann, Johannes (contributor); … - 2006

We analyse the adjustment of retail and services prices in a period of low inflation, using a set of individual price … data from the German Consumer Price Index which covers the years 1998 to 2003. We strong find evidence of time- and state …-dependent price adjustment. Most importantly, the differences in unconditionalʺ sectoral price flexibility are found to be linked to …

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Precious metal prices : a tale of four U.S. recessions

Agnese, Pablo; Garcia-del-Barrio, Pedro; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2023

This paper empirically examines the degree of persistence in four precious metal prices (i.e., gold, palladium, platinum, and silver) during the last four U.S. recessions. Unit root tests and fractional integration techniques suggest that gold still is the most prominent safe haven asset within...

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