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The Computer Software Industry in East and West: Do Eastern European Countries Need a Specific Science and Technology Policy?

Bitzer, Jürgen - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 1997

National science and technology (S&T) systems are often mentioned as a condition for competitiveness of high technology sectors. Therefore, public S&T policies should actively support the development of national S&T systems. In particular in Eastern Europe an active S&T policy is often demanded...

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Mergers & Acquisitions and Innovation Performance in the Telecommunications Equipment Industry

Gantumur, Tseveen; Stephan, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

The telecommunications in the 1990s witnessed an enormous worldwide round of Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A). This paper examines the innovation determinants of M&A activity and the consequences of M&A transactions on the technological potential and the innovation performance. We examine the...

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The Computer Industry in East and West: Do Eastern European Countries Need a Specific Science and Technology Policy?

Bitzer, Jürgen - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 1997

European countries see, in an active S&T policy, the key for the creation of a new computer industry, which collapsed with … socialism. With an industrial economic analysis of the market segments: PC, workstation, mini and mainframe computer and … supercomputers this hypothesis is rejected for Eastern Europe. It is shown that the Eastern European computer manufacturers are …

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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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Intangibles, Can They Explain the Dispersion in Return Rates?

Görzig, Bernd; Gornig, Martin - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

It is argued that the observed return rates on capital at firm-level have an upward bias if firms are producing with unobserved intangible capital. Using EUKLEED, a comprehensive firm level data base for Germany, this theoretical preposition is proved empirically. Furthermore, making unobserved...

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Allocative Efficiency Measurement Revisited: Do We Really Need Input Prices?

Badunenko, Oleg; Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

The traditional approach to measuring allocative efficiency is based on input prices, which are rarely known at the firm level. This paper proposes a new approach to measure allocative efficiency which is based on the output-oriented distance to the frontier in a profit - technical efficiency...

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Outsourcing, Foreign Ownership and Productivity: Evidence from UK Establishment Level Data

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

This paper presents an empirical analysis of "outsourcing" using establishment level data for UK manufacturing industries. We analyse an establishment's decision to outsource and the subsequent effects of outsourcing on the establishment's productivity. We compare outsourcing in domestic with...

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Downsizing in German Chemical Manufacturing Industry during the 1990s: Why Small Is Beautiful?

Badunenko, Oleg - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

German chemical manufacturing industry is marked by two major structural changes during 1992-2004. Firstly, number of firms was ranging extensively: from 676 to 901, while only 96 firms represented balanced panel. Secondly, size of the firm dropped considerably-by 88%. This paper is intended to...

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Temporary Agency Work and Firm Competitiveness: Evidence from German Manufacturing Firms

Nielen, Sebastian; Schiersch, Alexander - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

This paper addresses the relationship between the utilization of temporary agency workers by firms and their competitiveness measured by unit labor costs, using a rich, newly built, data set of German manufacturing enterprises. The analysis is conducted by applying different panel data models...

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Die Energiewirtschaft am Kaspischen Meer: enttäuschte Erwartungen - unsichere Perspektiven

Engerer, Hella; Hirschhausen, Christian von - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 1998

The growing literature on the potential role of energy resources around the Caspian Sea is dominated by geoplitics whereas economic aspects have been largely neglected thus far. The relevance of Caspian oil and gas reserves continues to be praised, though objective data on production and exports...

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