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The adoption of business-to-business e-commerce : empirical evidence for German companies

Bertschek, Irene; Fryges, Helmut - 2002

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How do sellers benefit from buy-it-now prices in Ebay auctions? : an experimental investigation

Grebe, Tim; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Kröger, Sabine - 2018

auction. We analyse experimentally how eBay sellers set BIN prices and whether they benefit from offering them. Using the real … eBay environment in the laboratory, we find that the eBay auction format supports deviations from truthful bidding leading … to auction prices substantially below those expected in second-price auctions. Our results reveal that the observed price …

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Competition among digital services : evidence from the 2021 meta outage

Rehse, Dominik; Valet, Sebastian - 2025

On October 4, 2021, all services provided by Meta Platforms, Inc. (then Facebook, Inc.) became unavailable unexpectedly for all its worldwide users for a period of about six hours. We use detailed high‐frequency tracking data from smartphones, tablets and desktop computers of thousands of Meta...

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Service offshoring and export experience

Berlingieri, Giuseppe; Marcolin, Luca; Ornelas, Emanuel - 2021

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Different prices for identical products? : Market efficiency and the virtual location in B2C e-commerce

Häring, Julia - 2003

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Internationalisation of high-tech start-ups and fast growth-evidence for UK and Germany

Bürgel, Oliver (contributor) - 2000

For firms acting in technological niches the expansion into foreign markets can be a way to increase sales and to thus to recover initial sunk costs over a shorter time frame. Our research, based on survey data for nearly 600 British and German high-tech start-ups, examines whether...

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Timing of international market entry of UK and German high-tech start-ups

Bürgel, Oliver (contributor) - 2001

We examine the impact of technological product advantages, prior international experience of the management, firm size and age, country differences, and sunk costs as determinants of the timing of international market entry. The timing of internationalisation is analysed using 'event history...

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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...

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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

The impact of technology on the demand for heterogeneous labor is controversely discussed throughout the literature. New technology which is said to favor high skilled labor and to substitute low skilled labor is often considered as the main reason for the decline in relative demand for low...

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Structural change revisited : the rise of manufacturing jobs in the service sector

Boddin, Dominik; Kroeger, Thilo - 2021

manufacturing jobs in Germany is far lower if the measurement of employment is based on the occupation of the worker. About 52% of …

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