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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428335
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428433
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001531547
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012651531
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621722
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Innovation and information technology in services
Licht, Georg - 1997
The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by various recent papers (e.g. Oliner and Sichels 1994, Landauer 1995, Brynjolfsson and Hitt 1996). Several explanations are given for this missing link. Our paper deals with two...
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