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A view on the long-run evolution of hours worked and labor productivity in Switzerland (1950 - 2010)
Siegenthaler, Michael - 2012
The discussion about the long-run evolution of labor productivity in Switzerland is flawed because the available data … series of total hours worked covering 1950-2010. The new data indicates that hours worked in Switzerland have been nearly … consequence, Switzerland's performance in terms of labor productivity growth has been underestimated in previous work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009541263
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Job mobility, peer effects, and research productivity in economics
Bolli, Thomas; Schläpfer, Jörg - 2013
Analysing a comprehensive panel dataset of economists working at Austrian, German, and Swiss universities, we investigate how the local environment influences a scientist's research productivity. The research environment varies if a scientist joins another department or if the characteristics of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792598
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Extreme bounds of democracy
Gassebner, Martin; Lamla, Michael; Vreeland, James Raymond - 2009
There are many stories of democracy but little consensus over which variables robustly determine its emergence and survival. We apply extreme bounds analysis to test the robustness of 59 factors proposed in the literature, evaluating over 3 million regressions. The most robust determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003908699
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How Nobel Laureates would perform in the Handelsblatt Ranking
Krapf, Matthias; Schläpfer, Jörg - 2012
; Bibliometrics ; Academic Rankings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629631
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Knowledge spillovers and their impact on innovation success : a new approach using patent backward citations
Arvanitis, Spyridon; Seliger, Florian; Wörter, Martin - 2016
particularly Switzerland itself. Moreover, the spillover effect on innovation performance decreases with increasing number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557684
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Does money matter in the ECB strategy? : New evidence based on ECB communication
Berger, Helge (contributor); Haan, Jakob de (contributor);  … - 2006
We examine the role of money in the policies of the ECB, using introductory statements of the ECB President at the monthly press conferences during 1999-2004. Over time, the relative amount of words devoted to the monetary analysis has decreased. Our analysis of indicators of the monetary policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003289275
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Industry diversity and its impact on the innovation performance of firms : an empirical analysis based on firm-level panel data
Wörter, Martin (contributor) - 2007
This paper investigates empirically the impact of diversity on the innovation performance of a firm. We created a measure for diversity that mirrors differences in the resource base of firms within an industry and tested its impact on innovation in addition to more traditional factors like...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003763605
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Comparing quantitative and qualitative survey data
Schenker, Rolf (contributor) - 2007
This paper compares quantitative and qualitative data on firm level. The data is taken from two Swiss investment surveys. This has not yet been done in the literature. We will see that the mean change in investment of firms planning to increase (decrease) investments is positive (negative). In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003763608
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The speed of adjustment to demand shocks : a Markov-chain measurement using micro panel data
Müller, Christian (contributor); Köberl, Eva (contributor) - 2007
In this paper we measure the speed at which firms adjust to demand shocks using individual firm data. Identification of shocks is achieved by a combination of quantitative and qualitative judgments on capacity utilisation in micro survey data. A novel feature of our approach is the distinction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003763609
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Trying to assess the quality of macroeconomic data : the case of Swiss labour productivity growth as an example
Hartwig, Jochen (contributor) - 2007
Macroeconomic data are indispensable for modern governance, yet it is often unclear how reliable these data are. The production process of macroeconomic data inside the statistical offices is often not very transparent for the general public. Bystanders usually have no choice but to take for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003763991