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Product market competition, corporate governance and firm performance : an empirical analysis for Germany
Januszewski, Silke I. - 1999
comparison with the United States. It has been argued that lack of product market competition and poor corporate governance are … econometric analysis of firm performance in Germany. Based on a unique panel data set with detailed information on almost 400 … product market competition experience higher rates of productivity growth. We also find weak evidence for the notion that in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428290
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What predicts a successful life? : a life-course model of well-being
Layard, Peter R. G.; Clark, Andrew E.; Cornaglia, Francesca - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340493
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Do company builders create jobs? : examining the rise of incubation finance in Germany
Scheuplein, Christoph; Kahl, Julian - 2017
-term employment and corporate affiliation. This article examines the economic impact of company builders in Germany compared with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011800402
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008665439
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The organization of knowledge in multinational firms
Gumpert, Anna - 2015
This paper provides the first in-depth study of the organization of knowledge in multinational firms. The paper develops a theoretical model that studies how firms optimally split knowledge between their headquarters and their production plants if communication costs impede the access of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011373085
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A global decline in research productivity? : evidence from China and Germany
Boeing, Philipp; Hünermund, Paul - 2020
.S. economy during the last 40 years. In this paper, we replicate their findings for China and Germany, using detailed firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239797
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The big sell : privatizing East Germany's economy
Hennicke, Moritz; Lubczyk, Moritz; Mergele, Lukas - 2020 - This version: September 11, 2020
-level dataset to study this redistribution in East Germany where the entire state-owned economy was either privatized or liquidated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287966
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The organization of knowledge in multinational firms
Gumpert, Anna - 2017
This paper provides the first in-depth study of the organization of knowledge in multinational firms. In the theory, knowledge is a costly input for firms that they can acquire at their headquarters or their production plants. Communication costs impede the access of the plants to headquarter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011697278
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Measuring organisation capital at the firm level : a production function approach
Rammer, Christian; Roth, Felix; Trunschke, Markus - 2020
Organisation capital is one of the key intangible assets of firms, driving innovation and firm performance. Measuring this asset has been notoriously difficult, however. Differently to other intangible assets, firms do not build up organisation capital primarily by monetary investment but rather...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012215284
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The demand of heterogeneous labour in Germany
Falk, Martin; Koebel, Bertrand M. - 1997
In this paper, four commonly provided explanations for the shift in labour demand for different skill groups are investigated: the substitutability of inputs; the own-price sensitivity for different types of labour; the effect of economic growth and the impact of technological change. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622045