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Biewen, Elena; Harsch, Daniela; Spies, Julia - 2012

This study provides evidence on how German multinational firms have restructured their service activities around the recent crisis. Making use of new micro-level data on service imports of German multinationals from 2002-2008, we assess the determinants of service offshoring along the extensive...

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Product innovation and product innovation marketing : theory and microeconometric evidence

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2001

the innovating firm invests in marketing, so that consumers become aware of the newly developed product. Firms first … theoretical model are that both the marketing of a product innovation and a firm's propensity to introduce an innovation decrease … a positive effect on product innovation and marketing effort. These findings are tested empirically using survey data …

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Consumer salience and quality provision in (un)regulated public service markets

Gu, Yiquan; Rasch, Alexander; Wenzel, Tobias - 2020

This paper examines the publication of quality indicators in service markets with public finance systems, such as education and healthcare markets. We provide a spatial model of product differentiation in which the reporting of such indicators increases consumers’ decision weight on quality...

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The performance of German firms in the business-related service sectors : a dynamic analysis

Nguyen van Phu - 2000

We analyze the performance of firms in the German business-related services sector. A quarterly business survey provides the panel data base of our study. Firm performance is measured by the survey respondents' ordinal indication of their changes in total sales. We use a firstorder Markov chain...

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Outsourcing of services, imported materials and the demand for heterogeneous labour : an application of a generalised Box-Cox function

Falk, Martin - 2000

This paper examines the effects that purchased services and imported intermediate materials have on the labour demand for different skills in the manufacturing sector. We derive and estimate a factor demand system based on the generalised Box-Cox cost function nesting both the normalised...

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