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We study competitive awarding procedures of short haul railway passenger services in Germany from 1995 to 2011 by means of a newly collected data set. In particular, we use regression techniques to investigate the determinants of the number of bidders, the identity of the winning bidder and the...
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Due to potential abuse of the market power at wholesale and retail market level for natural gas the Federal Cartel Office in Germany prohibited further forward integration of gas importing firms with retail incumbents from 2005/2006 to 2010. The Authority argued that the very few dominant gas...
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productivity but the combination of IT and decentralization does not yield a productivity premium. Contrarily, for the sample of … larger firms, the results show that the productivity of IT depends positively on decentralization. The findings suggest that …
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Using a unique German firm-level data set, we provide empirical evidence for a productivity sorting along two …
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linkages between the firm's R&D investment, product and process innovations, and future productivity and profits. The dynamic …&D investment. For the median productivity firm, investment in R&D raises firm value by 3.0 percent in a group of hightech … significantly affect R&D investment rates and productivity changes in the high-tech industries. …
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the age structure of establishments on productivity using representative linked employeremployee panel data. We argue that … establishment age-productivity profiles might differ for various reasons. For example, the importance of physical strength and … possibilities to compensate deficits in skills differ between sectors. We investigate differences in the age-productivity profiles …
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?intensive firms. Comparing the impacts on productivity and wage costs shows that ICT raise the profitability of training high …
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deepening and innovation for productivity. We employ a model that takes into account that innovation and ICT use may be … productivity appears to be of the same order of magnitude in the two countries. However, the direct impacts of innovation on multi …-factor productivity seems to be more robust for Germany than for the Netherlands. …
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estimates for an extended production function framework reveal significant productivity effects of ICT in the German service … productivity differentials between firms. …
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manufacturing productivity growth. There is no strong evidence in the literature on the existence of such link. Our work, however … productivity using firm-level data. First, a broader definition of innovation input is used in which research and development is …
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