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The Change of Sales Modes in International Markets: Empirical Results for German and British High-Tech Firms
Fryges, Helmut - 2005
. The estimation results confirm the importance of the firm?s physical and intangible resources as well as the influence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297494
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The R&D Investment-Uncertainty Relationship: Do Competition and Firm Size Matter?
Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2008
This paper investigates how competition and firm size affect the relationship between market uncertainty and R&D investment. We use an intuitively appealing measure of firm-specific uncertainty along with panel data to show that firms invest less in current R&D as uncertainty about market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297999
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Zum Zusammenhang zwischen Größe und Wachstum bei Gründungen - Empirische Ergebnisse für West-Deutschland
Nerlinger, Eric A.; Almus, Matthias - 1999
The present paper deals with the question whether 'Gibrat's law' is applicable to firms founded between 1989 and 1996 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297605
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Should low-wage workers care about where they work? Assessing the impact of employer characteristics on low-wage mobility
Guertzgen, Nicole; Heinze, Anja - 2010
This paper studies the importance of employer-specific determinants in escaping low earnings in Germany. To address the initial conditions problem and the endogeneity of employer retention, we model (intra-firm) low-pay transitions using a multivariate Probit model that accounts for selection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301688
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The Effects of Regional and Industry: Wide FDI Spillovers on Export of Ukrainian Firms
Park, Sang-Min; Talavera, Oleksandr; Lutz, Stefan - 2003
the volumes of export of Ukrainian manufacturing firms, using unpublished panel data from 1996?2000. Economic theory … in order to test for industrial and regional spillovers. The estimation results suggest that large firms, durable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297304
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The Export-Growth Relationship: Estimating a Dose-Response Function
Fryges, Helmut - 2006
The relationship between individual firms? export behaviour and firm performance has been studied extensively in the …-exporting companies, using the firms? export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing the performance of exporting and non … individual firms? export behaviour. Instead of a binary treatment variable, the GPS method allows for continuous treatment, that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297536
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Export and innovation activities in the German service sector: empirical evidence at the firm level
Ebling, Günther; Janz, Norbert - 1999
In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only … partially supported. While human capital significantly improves export performance, labour costs hamper it only in selected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297651
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Do Ukrainian Firms Benefit from FDI?
Talavera, Oleksandr; Lutz, Stefan H. - 2003
productivity and export volumes. Second, we look for spillover or indirect effects. There is statistical evidence that the levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298136
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Map Intersection Based Merging Schemes for Administrative Data Sources and an Application to Germany
Arntz, Melanie; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2005
In many situations the applied researcher wants to combine different data sources without knowing the exact link and merging rule. This paper introduces a theoretical framework how two different regional administrative data sources can be merged. It presents different merging schemes based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297429
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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations
Zwick, Thomas - 2000
Employee resistance against innovations is a virulent phenomenon and there is a broad theoretical literature on its determinants. The empirical evidence is scarce, however, and mainly provides descriptive evidence on the incidence of the phenomenon and concentrates on the effectiveness of change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297711