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Entry regulation and entrepreneurship : empirical evidence from a German natural experiment
Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2010
The amendment to the German Trade and Crafts Code in 2004 offers a natural experiment to asses the causal effects of this reform on the probabilities of being self-employed and transition into and out of self-employment, using cross-sections (2002-2006) of German microcensus data. This study...
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Search and equilibrium prices : theory and evidence from retail diesel
Cabral, Luís M. B.; Schober, Dominik; Woll, Oliver - 2019 - This version: March 27, 2019
We examine the relation between consumer search and equilibrium prices when collusion is endogenously determined. We develop a theoretical model and show that average price is a U-shaped function of the measure of searchers: prices are highest when there are no searchers (local monopoly power)...
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Whom to inform about prices? : evidence from the german fuel market
Montag, Felix; Sagimuldina, Alina; Winter, Christoph - 2023
Combining a theoretical model of imperfect information with empirical evidence, we show how the effect of providing price information to consumers depends on how well informed they are beforehand. Theoretically, an increase in consumer information decreases prices more, the fewer ex ante...
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The impact of the introduction of the Euro on firms' expectations concerning export behavior, product innovation and foreign competition : an empirical assessment of the German bus...
Kaiser, Ulrich; Müller, Claudia - 1998
in their expectations that the Euro will increase export activity and product innovation, but significantly more East … entering new markets and developing new products is stronger for firms which already export than for those who do not. Further …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622467
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Export and innovation activities in the German service sector: empirical evidence at the firm level
Ebling, Günther - 1999
In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only … partially supported. While human capital significantly improves export performance, labour costs hamper it only in selected …
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Local user producer interaction in innovation and export performance of firms
Beise, Marian - 2003
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Pricing to market of German exporters : evidence from panel data
Falk, Martin; Falk, Rahel - 1998
degree of pass-through of exchange rate fluctuations in the pricing of 70 export items. The model is estimated using panel … data on export unit values. Parameter estimation relies on GMM first difference, fixed effects, LAD, OLS first difference …
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Aggregating heterogeneous capital goods in adjustment-cost technologies
Blackorby, Charles; Schworm, William - 1982
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Dynamic demand patterns for a consumer durable : a comparative macro analysis
Deutsch, Joseph; Liebermann, Yehoshua J. - 1989
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Intertemporal substitution in import demand and habit formation
De la Croix, David; Urbain, Jean-Pierre - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000928032