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Der Einfluss von Exporten auf die betriebliche Entwicklung
Mangelsdorf, Stefan - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 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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Product policy and the East-West productivity gap
Görzig, Bernd; Gornig, Martin; Voshage, Ramona; … - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 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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Firm Specific Wage Spread in Germany - Decomposition of regional differences in inter firm wage dispersion
Görzig, Bernd; Gornig, Martin; Werwatz, Axel - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 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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Simultaneous Confidence Corridors and Variable Selection for Generalized Additive Models
Zheng, Shuzhuan; Liu, Rong; Yang, Lijian; Härdle, … - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 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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On heterogeneous latent class models with applications to the analysis of rating scores
Bertrand, Aurélie; Hafner, Christian M. - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 2011
Discovering the preferences and the behaviour of consumers is a key challenge in mar- keting. 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 strat- egy to analyze such data and achieve...
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A Combined Approach for Segment-Specific Analysis of Market Basket Data
Boztug, Yasemin; Reutterer, Thomas - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 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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Trade Liberalisation, Process and Product Innovation, and Relative Skill Demand
Braun, Sebastian - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 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 aggressively 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 - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 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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A Theory of Wage Adjustment under Loss Aversion
Ahrens, Steffen; Pirschel, Inske; Snower, Dennis J. - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 2014
We present a new theory of wage adjustment, based on worker loss aversion. In line with prospect theory, the workersperceived utility losses from wage decreases are weighted more heavily than the perceived utility gains from wage increases of equal magnitude. Wage changes are eval- uated...
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Efficiency of Wind Power Production and its Determinants
Pieralli, Simone; Ritter, Matthias; Odening, Martin - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 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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