, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is applied, basing the analysis on a unique … results of this study suggest that – if the aim is to leverage companies' productivity – emphasis should be put on supporting …-tech sector turns out to have a minor effect. Instead, encouraging investment in fixed assets appears vital for the productivity …

This survey summarizes the classical fundamentals of modern deterrence theory, covers major theoretical and empirical …

(exports and imports) and dimensions of firm performance (productivity, wages, profitability and survival). It discusses recent …

role of access to credit in creating and destroying jobs. The paper is based on a survey run on all Danish firms with more …

survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a … interaction among the participants, with a survey of noninteracting respondents in a smooth and inexpensive way. We illustrate the … power of our approach with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combining representative survey data with …

survey designs in conflict-affected areas. We review existing conflict- and violence-related questionnaires, with a special …

. In this paper, we explore the questions of what exactly is measured by the diverse survey-derived scales and experiments …. Inspired by criticism of the widespread trust question used in many surveys, we created a new, improved survey trust scale … that it correlates with trusting behaviour in the experiment. Both survey and experimental measure correlate with related …