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Der Einfluss von Exporten auf die betriebliche Entwicklung
Mangelsdorf, Stefan - 2009
Exporte gelten als Wachstumsmotor der deutschen Wirtschaft und werden von der Wirtschaftspolitik auf vielfältige Weise gefördert. Doch führt die Förderung der Aufnahme von Handelsbeziehungen mit dem Ausland durch Betriebe, die bislang nicht exportierten, wirklich zu einem Wachstum der...
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Firm specific wage spread in Germany: decomposition of regional differences in inter firm wage dispersion
Görzig, Bernd; Gornig, Martin; Werwatz, Axel - 2006
The purpose of this paper is to sort out firm-related differences from effects that result from different economic structures. A non-parametric decomposition is used to analyse firm level difference between the wage spread in the two major regions of unified Germany. If firm-specific effects...
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Product policy and the East-West productivity gap
Görzig, Bernd; Gornig, Martin; Voshage, Ramona; … - 2009
international division of labour. We concentrate on the question, to what extent they have caught up with the productivity level of … their Western counterparts of similar size and sector and how this productivity difference is related to changes in their … policy and productivity information for individual manufacturers from both parts of the country. Using a decomposition …
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Simultaneous confidence corridors and variable selection for generalized additive models
Zheng, Shuzhuan; Liu, Rong; Yang, Lijian; Härdle, … - 2014
In spite of the widespread use of generalized additive models (GAMs), there is no well established methodology for simultaneous inference and variable selection for the components of GAM. There is no doubt that both, inference on the marginal component functions and their selection, are...
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A combined approach for segment-specific analysis of market basket data
Boztuğ, Yasemin; Reutterer, Thomas - 2006
There are two main research traditions for analyzing market basket data that exist more or less independently from each other, namely exploratory and explanatory model types. Exploratory approaches are restricted to the task of discovering cross-category interrelationships and provide marketing...
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On heterogeneous latent class models with applications to the analysis of rating scores
Bertrand, Aurélie; Hafner, Christian M. - 2011
Discovering the preferences and the behaviour of consumers is a key challenge in marketing. Information about such topics can be gathered through surveys in which the respondents must assign a score to a number of items. In this article we suggest a strategy to analyze such data and achieve this...
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Trade liberalisation, process and product innovation, and relative skill demand
Braun, Sebastian - 2007
The interaction between trade liberalisation, product and process innovation, and relative skill demand is analysed in a model of international oligopoly. Lower trading barriers increase the degree of foreign competition. The competing enterprises respond by investing more aggres- sively in...
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A brand specific investigation of international cost shock threats on price and margin with a manufacturer-wholesaler-retailer model
Dannewald, Till; Hildebrandt, Lutz - 2008
In times of increasing oil prices and a weak dollar, European companies that focus their business on the US market may find themselves in a weak position. While many businesses can hedge this kind of risk by relocating production to the US, or employing financial remedies, these strategies may...
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Long-term orientation in family and non-family firms: a Bayesian analysis
Block, Jörn Hendrich; Thams, Andreas - 2007
A stronger long-term orientation is considered a competitive advantage of family firms relative to non-family firms. In this study, we use panel data of U.S. firms and analyze this proposition. Our findings are surprising. Only in when the family is involved in the management of the firm is the...
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Efficiency of wind power production and its determinants
Pieralli, Simone; Ritter, Matthias; Odening, Martin - 2015
This article examines the efficiency of wind energy production. We quantify production losses in four wind parks across Germany for 19 wind turbines with non-convex efficiency analysis. In a second stage regression, we adapt the linear regression results of Kneip, Simar, Wilson (2014) to explain...
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