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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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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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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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Modeling fiscal sustainability in dynamic macro-panels with heterogenous effects : evidence from German federal states
Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; Wolfinger, Julia - 2018
In this paper, we extend Henning Bohn's (2008) fiscal sustainability test by allowing for slope heterogeneity and cross-sectional dependence (CD). In particular, our econometric approach is the first that allows fiscal reaction functions (FRF) to capture unobserved heterogeneous effects from...
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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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Do business-related services really lag behind manufacturing industries in the business cycle?
Kaiser, Ulrich - 1999
In an a priori view, it is usually assumed that the business cycle of manufacturing industries leads the business cycle of the service sector. This seems to be even more plausible for the relationship between business-related services, whose high growth rates in recent years were largely due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428258
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A note on the calculation of firm-specific and skill-specific labor costs from firm-level data
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2000
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