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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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Strategic complementarities between different types of ICT-expenditures
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2003
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Measuring knowledge spillovers in manufacturing and services: an empirical assesssment of alternative approaches
Kaiser, Ulrich - 1999
knowledge spillovers are unmeasurable, a 'goodness of fit' measure is constructed using innovation survey data. It turns out … measures constructed from innovation survey data appear to work reasonably well while measures of the Euclidean technological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428289
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Research cooperation and research expenditures with endogenous absorptive capacity : theory and microeconometric evidence for the German service sector
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2000
collaborate in R&D is increasing in R&D productivity. The key findings of the theoretical model are tested using German innovation … survey data for the service sector. A simultaneous model for cooperation choice and innovation expenditures shows that R …&D cooperation has a weakly significant positive effect on innovation expenditures. The empirical results broadly support the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428320
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Quantification of qualitative data using ordered probit models with an application to a business survey in the German service sector
Kaiser, Ulrich; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2000
This paper aims at providing business survey analysts with simple econometric tools to quantify qualitative survey data. We extend the traditional and commonly applied method proposed by Carlson and Parkin (1975) to capture observable survey respondent heterogeneity. We also discuss...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001531547
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R&D cooperation and R&D intensity : theory and micro-econometric evidence for german manufacturing industries
Kaiser, Ulrich; Licht, Georg - 1998
R&D cooperation only considered process innovation, the model presented here also takes product innovation into account …. It is shown that the optimal R&D investment has virtually the same structure for both process and product innovation. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001604531
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The Effects of Website Provision on the Demand for German Women's Magazines
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2022
The effect of website provision on the demand for German women's magazines is analyzed using differentiated product demand models estimated on panel data that cover the period 1990 2000. Descriptive evidence on the magazines' website contents suggests that websites are used to provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014120018
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The impact of new technologies on the demand for heterogenous labour : empirical evidence from the German business-related services sector
Kaiser, Ulrich - 1998
increasingly important sector in the German economy. Cross-sectional data from an innovation survey and panel data from a quarterly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621722
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The impact of political announcements on expectations concerning the starting date of the EMU : a microeconometric approach to the detection of event-dependent answering patterns in business surveys
Kaiser, Ulrich - 1997
This paper examines German business survey data to uncover the influence of political news on expectations concerning the starting date of the European Monetary Union (EMU). In this survey the participants were asked to indicate whether they expect a punctual or a delayed start of the EMU....
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