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Industry-level wage bargaining : a partial rehabilitation ; the German experience
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 1999
In order to reduce unemployment, it is often recommended that industry-level wage bargaining in Germany should be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297632
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Exports and Profitability: First Evidence for German Manufacturing Firms
Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - 2008
Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298661
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The KfW/ZEW start-up panel: design and research potential
Fryges, Helmut; Gottschalk, Sandra; Kohn, Karsten - 2009
So far, there has been no data set which observes firm formations in Germany not only on a cross-sectional basis using … Bankengruppe and Creditreform set up a panel study of newly founded firms in Germany: the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel. In each of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299178
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The interdependence of R&D activity and debt financing of young firms
Fryges, Helmut; Kohn, Karsten; Ullrich, Katrin - 2012
We investigate the interdependence of debt financing and R&D activities of young firms. Using micro-level data of the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel, our estimation results show that firm characteristics are more important than personal characteristics of the founders for explaining young firms'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308270
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The interdependence of R&D activity and debt financing of young firms
Fryges, Helmut; Kohn, Karsten; Ullrich, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
We investigate the interdependence of debt financing and R&D activities of young firms. Using micro-level data of the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel, our estimation results show that firm characteristics are more important than personal characteristics of the founders for explaining young firms'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957587
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The KfW/ZEW start-up panel: design and research potential
Fryges, Helmut; Gottschalk, Sandra; Kohn, Karsten - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
So far, there has been no data set which observes firm formations in Germany not only on a cross-sectional basis using … Bankengruppe and Creditreform set up a panel study of newly founded firms in Germany: the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel. In each of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533547
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Industry-level wage bargaining : a partial rehabilitation ; the German experience
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999
In order to reduce unemployment, it is often recommended that industry-level wage bargaining in Germany should be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097827
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Exports and Profitability: First Evidence for German Manufacturing Firms
Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097994
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Will the (German) NAIRU Please Stand up?
Franz, Wolfgang - 2003
" (NAIRU) for Germany. There are quite a few obstacles to perceiving the NAIRU as an understandable and easy-to-use analytical … is made to estimate a NAIRU for Germany based on conventional Phillips curves as well as on new approaches such as using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297287
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B2B or Not to Be: Does B2B E-Commerce Increase Labour Productivity?
Bertschek, Irene; Fryges, Helmut; Kaiser, Ulrich - 2004
We implement an endogeneous switching-regression model for labour productivity and firms' decision to use business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce. Our approach allows B2B usage to affect any parameter of the labour productivity equation and to properly take account of strategic complementarities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297371