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Offshoring and ICT: Evidence for German manufacturing and service firms

Rasel, Fabienne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

In this paper, I analyse the relationship between offshoring and ICT at the firm level differentiating between … measures, overall, the results reveal a positive relationship between offshoring and ICT. Thus, they support the argument that … ICT might be relevant for offshoring. Controlling for other firm characteristics, software to coordinate and to manage the …

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Investment opportunities in Central and Eastern European equity markets: an econometric examination of the risk-return relationships for western investors

Schröder, Michael - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000

This study focuses on the diversification benefits of the most developed equity markets of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). To evaluate these benefits of diversification we use so-called spanning tests based on a stochastic discount factor approach and estimated by General Methods of Moments...

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The Prospects of Capital Markets in Central and Eastern Europe

Schröder, Michael; Köke, Jens - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

The picture of the securities exchanges and financial sectors in CEE countries is still relatively unfavorable. The CEE securities exchanges – with the only exception of the Warsaw Stock Exchange – are, in comparison with their western counterparts, underdeveloped and less important for the...

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Corporate finance and restructuring: evidence from Central and Eastern Europe

Köke, Jens; Salem, Tanja - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000

After the end of communism enterprises in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) were marked by low levels of labor productivity, mainly because of too high employment levels. According to economic theory, the corporate capital structure can be an important element in the restructuring process. But...

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Institutional investment in Central and Eastern Europe: investment criteria of Western portfolio managers

Köke, Jens - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999

This study provides detailed evidence on the transistion state of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries. It draws on data from a survey conducted among portfolio managers of Western investment funds thereby making use of the knowledge of experts in CEE markets. The approach of the study is...

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Regional Income Convergence in the Enlarged Europe, 1995-2000: A Spatial Econometric Perspective

Fischer, Manfred M.; Stirböck, Claudia - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

This paper adopts a spatial econometric perspective to analyse regional convergence of per capita income in Europe in 1995 to 2000 and, moreover, relaxes the assumption of a single steady-state growth path which appears to be out of tune with reality of empirical dynamics. The two-club spatial...

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Innovationsanreize in einem strukturellen Oligopolmodell

Harhoff, Dietmar - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1997

In diesem Beitrag wird ein Oligopolmodell der Innovationsaktivität entwickelt und mit Daten aus dem Mannheimer Innovationspanel geschätzt. Das Modell erlaubt es, bei der empirischen Umsetzung auf die Verwendung von Marktanteilsdaten und Nachfrageelastizitäten zu verzichten, die typischerweise...

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Understanding the effects of violent video games on violent crime

Cunningham, A. Scott; Engelstätter, Benjamin; Ward, … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

Psychological studies invariably find a positive relationship between violent video game play and aggression. However, these studies cannot account for either aggressive effects of alternative activities video game playing substitutes for or the possible selection of relatively violent people...

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Mobile network interconnection and investments

Veith, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

Abstract In markets with competing interconnected networks like mobile telecommunication markets investments affect the investor’s and also any competitors’ profits. In a theoretical model it is shown that cost-reducing investments reduce the investor’s termination rates and increase...

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Hidden champions - how young and small technology-oriented firms can attain high export-sales ratios

Fryges, Helmut - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

Determinants of a firm?s export-sales ratio (degree of internationalisation) are frequently discussed in the literature related to individual firms? export activities. Stylised facts show a positive relationship between firm size and firm age on the one hand and the firm?s export-sales ratio on...

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