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Labor market sorting in Germany : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, April 2016
Lochner, Benjamin; Schulz, Bastian - 2016
This paper analyzes the allocation of workers to jobs and the wage distribution in Germany. Our main contribution is to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524613
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Product versus process : innovation strategies of multi-product firms
Flach, Lisandra; Irlacher, Michael - 2015
We investigate the effect of better access to foreign markets on innovation strategies of multi-product firms in … between the returns to innovation. In differentiated industries, cannibalization is lower and firms invest more in product … innovation. In homogeneous industries, firms internalize intra-firm spillovers and invest more in process innovation. We test …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283837
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Growing like China : firm performance and global production line position
Chor, Davin; Manova, Kalina; Yu, Zhihong - 2020
Global value chains have fundamentally transformed international trade and development in recent decades. We use matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese firms position themselves in global production lines and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270354
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Natural resource endowment : a mixed blessing?
Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2011
This paper deals with the implications of natural resources for the conduct of economic policies and the role and design of institutions in resource-rich countries. The paper briefly reviews the experience of a few resource-rich countries, highlighting the successes of those that have done well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009010049
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Global sourcing decisions and firm productivity : evidence from Spain
Kohler, Wilhelm; Smolka, Marcel - 2009
We investigate the link between productivity of firms and their sourcing behavior. Following Antràs & Helpman (2004) we distinguish between domestic and foreign sourcing, as well as between outsourcing and vertical integration. A firm's choice is driven by a hold-up problem caused by lack of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923683
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Determinants of survival of newly created SMEs in the Brazilian manufacturing : an econometric study
Façanha, Luis Otávio; Resende, Marcelo; Cardoso, Vicente - 2012
The paper investigates the survival of newly created small and medium enterprises in Brazilian manufacturing taking as reference the 1996-2005 period. The econometric analysis relies on time-varying version of the proportional hazard rate model that controls for unobserved heterogeneity. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009490608
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Do entrepreneurs matter?
Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691623
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Working from home around the world
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2022
innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013365385
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The Ifo Investment Database
Strobel, Thomas; Sauer, Stefan; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2013
In this paper we present the Ifo Investment Database, which provides annual investment data for 12 investment assets in 50 German industries from 1991 onward. The data is consistent with national accounts statistics provided by the German Federal Statistical Office and is based on investments in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009721990
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Mitigating liquidity constraints : public export credit guarantees in Germany
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Heiland, Inga; Yalçin, Erdal - 2012
guarantees in Germany. Covering the default risk of exporters' foreign customers, the policy is supposed to enable funding of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580766