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A Reputation Economy: Results from an Empirical Survey on Academic Data Sharing

Fecher, Benedikt; Friesike, Sascha; Hebing, Marcel; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015

, nor the desire for scientific progress, but by individual reputation—expressed in (high ranked journal) publications. We … label this system a Reputation Economy. This special economy explains our findings that show that researchers have a nuanced … data sharing will only be widely adopted among research professionals if sharing pays in form of reputation. Thus, policy …

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Career Prospects and Effort Incentives: Evidence from Professional Soccer

Miklós-Thal, Jeanine; Ullrich, Hannes - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

It is difficult to test the prediction that future career prospects create implicit effort incentives because researchers cannot randomly “assign” career prospects to economic agents. To overcome this challenge, we use data from professional soccer, where employees of the same club face...

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Informational Opacity and Honest Certification

Pollrich, Martin; Wagner, Lilo - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

This paper studies the interaction of information disclosure and reputational concerns in certification markets. We argue that by revealing less precise information a certifier reduces the threat of capture. Opaque disclosure rules may reduce profits but also constrain feasible bribes. For large...

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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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Determinants of Export Behaviour of German Business Services Companies

Eickelpasch, Alexander; Vogel, Alexander - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

The determinants of export behaviour at firm level have been widely investigated for manufacturing companies. By contrast, what has remained largely neglected is a detailed investigation in the service sector. As aggregate statistics show, international trade in services has grown significantly...

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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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Effects of Foreign Presence in a Transition Economy: Regional and Industry-Wide Investments and Firm-Level Exports in Ukrainian Manufacturing

Lutz, Stefan; Talavera, Oleksandr; Park, Sang-Min - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

We investigate the effects of regional and industry-wide foreign presence and foreign direct investment (FDI) on export volumes of Ukrainian manufacturing firms using unpublished panel data from 1996-2000. Foreign presence through FDI may have negative competition effects on domestic firms'...

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Hard and Soft Locational Factors, Innovativeness and Firm Performance: An Empirical Test of Porter's Diamond Model at the Micro-Level

Eickelpasch, Alexander; Lejpras, Anna; Stephan, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

This paper investigates predictions of Porter's Diamond model regarding the impact of locational factors on innovativeness and performance at the firm level. We formulate a structural equation model based on the relationships between locational conditions, e.g., transportation infrastructure,...

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Why IT Matters: An Empirical Study of E-Business Usage, Innovation, and Firm Performance

Köllinger, Philipp - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

The article argues that IT continues to have strategic relevance for companies because it en-ables innovation. A conceptual link between the adoption of IT and innovation is established. This conceptual link allows a market-based, economic explanation for variations in IT payoffs among firms:...

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What Drives the Productive Efficiency of a Firm?: The Importance of Industry, Location, R&D, and Size

Badunenko, Oleg; Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

This paper investigates the factors that explain the level and dynamics of manufacturing firm productive efficiency. In our empirical analysis, we use a unique sample of about 39,000 firms in 256 industries from the German Cost Structure Census over the years 1992-2005. We estimate the...

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