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A budget-constrained buyer wants to purchase items from a shortlisted set. Items are differentiated by quality and sellers have private reserve prices for their items. Sellers quote prices strategically, inducing a knapsack game. The buyer's problem is to select a subset of maximal quality. We...
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This paper introduces a statistical technique, Support Vector Machines (SVM), which is considered by the Deutsche Bundesbank as an alternative for company rating. A special attention is paid to the features of the SVM which provide a higher accuracy of company classification into solvent and...
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-term relationship between borrower and bank exists. The paper offers a theoretical explanation why SME managers consider external …
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Einleitung: Im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung werden seit Jahren "Berichte zur technologischen Leistungsfähigkeit Deutschlands" vorgelegt, die den Strukturwandel in Richtung wissensintensiver Wirtschaftszweige und Tätigkeiten im zeitlichen und internationalen...
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. Entwicklungen in Deutschland 5.1. Entwicklung der Lohngleichheit 5.2. Trade-off zwischen Arbeitslosigkeit und Lohnspreizung 6 ….S. during the 1990s compared to continental Europe and Germany in particular has lead to the statement of the trade … supply side conditions for skill formation. By summing up empirical research results on this issue for the U.S. and Germany …
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Staatlich organisierte Altersvorsorgesysteme, die in Umlage finanziert werden (in Deutschland ist dies die gesetzliche …
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Design-based estimators of totals, means or proportions in finite populations generally are functions of weighted sums. If each element selected into the sample is also observed, then for the calculation of the pi-estimator these weights are just the inverse inclusion probabilities of the...
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In this paper, a weight is derived for the calculation of design based estimators of totals, means and proportions using the ongoing German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and a new cross-sectional sample. In the first part of the paper, the selection schemes of the subsamples A, B, C and D of the...
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West Germany. In the background of this analysis, the influence of institutions on the allocation of resources is examined …
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Obwohl heute ein weitgehender Konsens darüber vorliegt, dass der Qualitätssicherung bei Humandienstleistungen ein ganz besonderer Stellenwert zukommt, fehlt eine systematische Auseinandersetzung mit den Gründen und Möglichkeiten einer solchen Qualitätssicherung. Am Beispiel der Bildung,...
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