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Die Heterogenität der Effizienz innerhalb von Branchen - Eine Auswertung von Unternehmensdaten der Kostenstrukturerhebung im Verarbeitenden Gewerbe
Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Der Beitrag arbeitet die Heterogenität von Unternehmen innerhalb von Branchen hinsichtlich ihrer technischen Effizienz … technische Effizienz wird im Rahmen der Schätzung einer Translog-Produktionsfunktion als unternehmensspezifischer fixer Effekt … ermittelt. Innerhalb von Branchen bestehen in der Regel große Unterschiede hinsichtlich der technischen Effizienz. Diese …
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What Determines the Technical Efficiency of a Firm? The Importance of Industry, Location, and Size
Badunenko, Oleg; Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper investigates the factors that explain the level of technical efficiency of a firm. In our empirical analysis, we use a unique sample of about 35,000 firms in 256 industries from the German Cost Structure Census over the years 1992-2004. We estimate the technical efficiency of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835237
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Chaos in the Middle Zone: Nonperiodic Fluctuation in the Dynamic van Thunen Model
Hansson, Kenneth A. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1985
Non-periodic fluctuations of production activities are shown to exist in a dynamic von Thunen model for specific conditions of cost and demand.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684435
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Strategic Investments in the Pulp and Paper Industry: A Count Data Regression Analysis
Bergman, Mats A.; Johansson, Per - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000
This paper analyses the effects of price and market size variables on the investment propensities in the pulp and paper industry. A panel of 15 European countries in the time period 1984 - 1997 is used in the regression analysis. We find the wages, the US/ECU exchange rate, the price of paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207063
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Explaining Parallel Mobile Telephone Networks: A Theoretical Model
Segendorff, Björn - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1995
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Strategic Investments in the Pulp and Paper Industry: A Count Data Regression Analysis.
Bergman, M.A.; Johansson, P. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000
This paper analyses the effects of price and market size variables on the investment propensities in the pulp and paper industry. A panel of 15 European countries in the time period 1984 - 1997 is used in the regression analysis. We find the wages, the US/ECU exchange rate, the price of paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670109
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Foreign Direct Investment, Source Country Heterogeneity and Management Practices
Heyman, Fredrik; Nor, Pehr-Johan; Hammarberg, Rickard - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
This paper examines whether and, if so, why source country heterogeneity exists in foreign direct investment (FDI). Using detailed data on all Swedish firms for the period from 1996 to 2009, we find statistical evidence that affiliate performance differs systematically across source countries....
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Economic Growth and the Dynamics of Wage Determination: A Micro Simulation Study of the Stability Consequences of Deficient Variation in Factor Prices and Micro Structures
Eliasson, Gunnar; Lindberg, Thomas - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1986
Swedish Manufacturing Industry is said to be technologically and commercially in good shape. While Swedish wage levels were higher than in all industrial countries in the mid-70s, wages - expressed in international currencies - have now dropped to a mid-position, and real rates of return are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019043
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Private Enterprise vs. Government Control: An Organizationally Dynamic Comparison
Pelikan, Pavel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1985
It is noted that modern economics cannot decide which economic system is the best way of organizing production. In particular, support is given to Nelson (1981) who claims that modern economics does not provide any substantial argument in favor of private enterprise being the best. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019059
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The Machine Tool Industry – Problems and Prospects in an International Perspective
Carlsson, Bo - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1983
The machine tool industry is tiny but crucial: it supplies the machines to cut, form, and shape metals upon which about half of the manufacturing industries are dependent. The state of the art of the machine tools themselves, their control systems and the organization surrounding them largely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019065