We study the impact of research collaborations in coauthorship networks on research output and how optimal funding can … possibly overlapping projects. We bring our model to the data by analyzing the coauthorship network of economists registered in … the RePEc Author Service. We rank the authors and research institutions according to their contribution to the aggregate …

creation and the creation of new firms. Because most employment in low and middle income countries is in micro, small and …

can be detected with micro data at the firm-level, but that using linkage variables computed from input-output tables at …Our estimates, based on large firm-level and industry-level data sets from eighteen countries, suggest that FDI and …

Based on the hypothesis that microdata are of crucial importance for internationally competitive economic research and … scientific advice in economic and social policy, the authors develop various proposals for an improved data supply for empirical …, empirical economics, especially application of microdata and modern tools of data analysis, should be emphasized within the …

A new generation of data sets became available recently in the research data centres of the German statistical offices … their research potential. Furthermore, and looking ahead to the next generation of data, it discusses an ongoing project … institutions. -- Enterprise data ; Germany ; research data centres …

one-time surveys, but continuously over a number of years. Therefore, the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), KfW …'s research potential is illustrated using data from the first panel wave conducted in the year 2008. Data access for external … researchers and data protection issues of the confidential micro data are discussed. -- Firm foundation ; micro data ; firm data …

exporting on firms' labor demand. Using rich, administrative linked employer-employee panel data from Germany, we explicitly …

This paper investigates the impact of working while in school on learning outcomes through the use of a unique micro …

This paper exploits rich SOEP microdata to analyze state-level variation in health care utilization in Germany. Unlike … individual-level and state-level factors that may contribute to the geographic variation in health care utilization. The raw data …-level differences vanish once we control for individual-level socio-economic characteristics, the respondents' health status, their …