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The performance of German firms in the business-related service sectors : a dynamic analysis
Nguyen van Phu - 2000
We analyze the performance of firms in the German business-related services sector. A quarterly business survey provides the panel data base of our study. Firm performance is measured by the survey respondents' ordinal indication of their changes in total sales. We use a firstorder Markov chain...
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Management practices, workforce selection and productivity
Bender, Stefan; Bloom, Nicholas; Card, David E.; Van … - 2016
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Does management matter in schools?
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464925
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Measuring selectivity-corrected gender wage gaps in the EU
Beblo, Miriam; Beninger, Denis; Heinze, Anja; Laisney, … - 2003
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Does Management Matter in Schools
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …
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Management Practices, Workforce Selection and Productivity
Bender, Stefan - 2016
and firm-level productivity in Germany. In our preferred TFP estimates only a small fraction of this correlation is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996465
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Imposing and testing curvature conditions on a Box-Cox cost function
Koebel, Bertrand M. - 2000
We present a new method for imposing and testing concavity of a cost function using asymptotic least squares, which can easily be implemented even for cost functions which are nonlinear in parameters. We provide an illustration on the basis of a (generalized) Box-Cox cost function with six...
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Welfare analysis of fiscal reforms : does the representation of the family decision process matter?
Beninger, Denis - 2003
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Carbon taxes, path dependency and directed technical change : evidence from the auto industry
Aghion, Philippe; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Hémous, David - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009671328
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Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change : Evidence from the Auto Industry
Aghion, Philippe - 2014
innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …
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