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Different weighting methods in business tendency survey indicators in Swiss manufacturing industry

Etter, Richard; Köberl, Eva - 2006

adequate. Three alternative weighting methods were applied at firm level: no weighting, weighting with the number of employees …, weighting with the number of employees plus the ratio of order books/stock to sales. These were compared with the current … weighting method which includes stratification and branch weights by value added. The four indicators for each of the BTS …

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Methodology to correct the unit non-response bias in the case of the KOF ETH Survey 2000 on organization and information technologies

Donzé, Laurent - 2002

In order to correct the bias due to unit non-response for the KOF ETH Zurich's business (mail) surveys, we usually use … collected data. Actually, we show how to generate new correcting weights to correct the non-response bias. …

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The effect of policy uncertainty on investment plans: Evidence from the unexpected acceptance of a far-reaching referendum in Switzerland

Abberger, Klaus; Dibiasi, Andreas; Siegenthaler, Michael; … - 2016

Does increased policy uncertainty dampen investment plans of firms? We provide direct evidence on this question by examining the effects of an unexpectedly accepted and farreaching referendum in Switzerland in February 2014. The vote has put several economically relevant agreements between...

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Measuring knightian uncertainty

Dibiasi, Andreas; Iselin, David - 2019

Uncertainty shapes the trajectory of business cycles and remains a central research topic in Macroeconomics. When studying the impact of uncertainty on the economy, economists use different uncertainty measures. While all indicators approximate uncertainty along some certain dimension, none of...

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Matched-pair analysis based on business survey data to evaluate the policy of supporting the adoption of advanced manufacturing technologies by Swiss firms

Donzé, Laurent - 2002

We apply different matched-pair methods to evaluate the policy of sustaining the adoption of advanced manufacturing technologies by Swiss firms and we compare it in decomposing the selection bias. In this aim we present the evaluation problem, the decomposition of the selection bias and the...

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