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Virtual Assisted Self Interviewing (VASI): An Expansion of Survey Data Collection Methods to the Virtual Worlds by Means of VDCI

Bell, Mark W.; Castronova, Edward; Wagner, Gert G. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

Changes in communication technology have allowed for the expansion of data collection modes in survey research. The proliferation of the computer has allowed the creation of web and computer assisted auto-interview data collection modes. Virtual worlds are a new application of computer...

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Respondent Driven Sampling

Schonlau, Matthias; Liebau, Elisabeth - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

Respondent driven sampling (RDS) is a network sampling technique typically employed for hard-to-reach populations (e.g. drug users, men who have sex with men, people with HIV). Similar to snowball sampling, initial seed respondents recruit additional respondents from their network of friends....

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Analyzing E-Learning Adoption via Recursive Partitioning

Köllinger, Philipp; Schade, Christian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

The paper analyzes factors that influence the adoption of e-learning and gives an example of how to forecast technology adoption based on a post-hoc predictive segmentation using a classification and regression tree (CART). We find strong evidence for the existence of technological...

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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 … non-stationary panel data econometrics, we find that industry-specific knowledge both nationally and internationally …

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Responsive Adjustment of Feed-in Tariffs to Dynamic PV Technology Development

Grau, Thilo - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 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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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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Do External Technology Acquisitions Matter for Innovative Efficiency and Productivity?

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

To quickly adapt to technological change and developments, and thus remain competitive, firms increasingly resort to the use of external technology. This paper investigates whether and to what extent the acquisition of external disembodied technology affects the efficiency and productivity in...

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Joint Customer Data Acquisition and Sharing among Rivals

Jentzsch, Nicola; Sapi, Geza; Suleymanova, Irina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

It is increasingly observable that in different industries competitors jointly acquire and share customer data. We propose a modified Hotelling model with two-dimensional consumer heterogeneity to analyze the incentives for such agreements and their welfare implications. In our model the...

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Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation around the World: Evidence from Panel Data

Léger, Andréanne - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

This article contributes to the literature on innovation and development by identifying the determinants of innovation, and the role of intellectual property rights, in industrialized and developing countries. Controlling for sample selection, I find that, in general, the level of intellectual...

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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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