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Endogenous Product Versus Process Innovation and a Firm's Propensity to Export

Becker, Sascha O. - 2015

at the firm level. Product innovation is a key factor for successful market entry in models of creative destruction and … Schumpeterian growth. Process innovation helps securing a firm's market position given the characteristics of its product supply …. Both modes of innovation are expected to raise a firm's propensity to export. According to new trade theory, we conjecture …

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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?

Becker, Sascha O. - 2013

In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...

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Do Parties Punish MPs for Voting against the Party Line?

Kauder, Bjoern - 2017

We examine whether parties punish politicians who vote against the party line in roll-call votes. Using data of German members of parliament over the legislative period 2009-2013, we take into account that the effect of punishment differs along the list of candidates because a candidate is...

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Manipulating Fiscal Forecasts : Evidence from the German States

Kauder, Bjoern - 2017

We examine whether German state governments manipulated fiscal forecasts before elections. Our data set includes three fiscal measures over the period 1980-2014. The results do not show that electoral motives influenced fiscal forecasts in West German states. By contrast, East German state...

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Outside Earnings, Absence, and Activity : Evidence from German Parliamentarians

Arnold, Felix - 2014

We examine moonlighting by politicians in Germany. In July 2007, the German Supreme Court adjudicated that members of … contributions, interpellations, and group initiatives. We propose that the results for Germany do not corroborate evidence on other …

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The Growth in Military Expenditure in Germany 1951-2011 : Did Parties Matter?

Kauder, Bjoern - 2015

We examine whether government ideology was correlated with the growth in military expenditure in Germany over the …

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Trade and Tasks : An Exploration Over Three Decades in Germany

Becker, Sascha O. - 2015

This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data for merchandize and services. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the...

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Does Parental Education Affect Fertility? Evidence from Pre-Demographic Transition Prussia

Becker, Sascha O. - 2011

While women's employment opportunities, relative wages, and the child quantity‐quality trade‐off have been studied as factors underlying historical fertility limitation, the role of parental education has received little attention. We combine Prussian county data from three censuses - 1816,...

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The Effect of FDI on Job Separation

Becker, Sascha O. - 2006

A novel linked employer-employee data set documents that expanding multinational enterprises retain more domestic jobs than competitors without foreign expansions. In contrast to prior research, a propensity score estimator allows enterprise performance to vary with foreign direct investment...

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The Impact of Public Employment : Evidence from Bonn

Becker, Sascha O. - 2018

This paper evaluates the impact of public employment on private sector activity using the relocation of the German federal government from Berlin to Bonn in the wake of the Second World War as a source of exogenous variation. To guide our empirical analysis, we develop a simple economic...

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