function of age and others have closed-form solutions that are crucial for matching static and dynamic features of the data. …

. Moreover, we apply a matching technique in order to analyze whether the presence in international markets enabled firms to …

complexity in improving cost, quality, variety, and time--to--market performance variables. Management of design complexity is …

complexity in improving cost, quality, variety, and time--to--market performance variables. Management of design complexity is …

seller with no means to signal his quality has the possibility to be certified by an institution that owns a technology to … discover the true quality and can credibly commit to a disclosure rule. We study the incentives of this institution to disclose …

account changes in the quality of goods and services over time. This paper outlines the derivation of measures that lead to … quantification of the “community preference for its perceptions of improved unmeasured quality” in products. The measures are based … on the proposition that individuals behave in such a manner as to maximise their quality of life. This is expressed by …

The phenomenon of offshoring, that is, the outsourcing of highly- qualified services into low wage countries was until … the controversial issue of the advantageousness of offshoring. The trend, which has been enforced by numerous consultants … validity. The following paper deals with the advantageousness of offshoring in the case of IT services. In order to detach …

Based on administrative data from the federal employment office in Germany, we apply matching techniques to estimate …