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ICT, Innovation and Business Performance in Services: Evidence for Germany and the Netherlands
van der Wiel, Henry; van Leeuwen, George; Hempell, Thomas - 2004
Using panel data for German and Dutch firms from the services sector, this paper analyses the importance of ICT capital …-factor productivity seems to be more robust for Germany than for the Netherlands. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297322
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Employment Effects of Different Innovation Activities: Microeconometric Evidence
Peters, Bettina - 2004
innovation and employment growth in Germany. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations … Germany are similar to those found for Spain and the UK. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297395
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Does Experience Matter? Innovations and the Productivity of ICT in German Services
Hempell, Thomas - 2002
In this paper, it is argued that ICT investment is closely linked with complementary innovations and most productive in firms with innovative experience. In an analysis based on firm?level panel data covering the period 1994?99, system GMM estimates for an extended production function framework...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297958
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What's Spurious, What's Real? Measuring the Productivity Impacts of ICT at the Firm-Level
Hempell, Thomas - 2002
In order to assess the productivity effects of information and communication technologies (ICT), regressions based on cross?sectional firm?level data may yield unreliable results for the commonly employed production function framework. In this paper, various estimation biases and econometric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297959
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Employment Effects of Different Innovation Activities: Microeconometric Evidence
Peters, Bettina - 2005
service firms in Germany. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations using specific … regarding process innovations were found. Finally, from a cross country perspective the results for Germany are similar to those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298012
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Sectoral Differences in Wage Freezes and Wage Cuts: Evidence from a new Firm Survey
Radowski, Daniel; Bonin, Holger - 2008
The paper provides evidence concerning incidence and sources of nominal wage rigidity in services and manufacturing …, using a new and large employer survey on wage and price setting behaviour for Germany. We observe that wage freezes are more … frequent in services than in manufacturing, whereas wage cuts are less frequent. The significant sector gaps do not vanish …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298678
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Who Chooses Whom? Syndication, Skills and Reputation
Tykvová, Tereza - 2005
Syndication, which is a joint realization of one project/one investment by several capital providers, is a long existing phenomenon that plays a central role in many financial market segments. Within this paper we develop a theoretical model focusing on the dynamic aspect of syndication, namely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297486
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Uncertainty of outcome versus reputation: empirical evidence for the First German Football Division
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Stadtmann, Georg - 1999
conclusion, we show that reputation and goodwill are more important for attendance levels than the thrill of outcome uncertainty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297644
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Do Computers Call for Training? Firm-level Evidence on Complementarities Between ICT and Human Capital Investments
Hempell, Thomas - 2003
This paper explores whether investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) and firm?sponsored training programmes are complementary. Three approaches are applied to panel data from German service companies for the time period 1994?98. Results for a system of interrelated factor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297271
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Does social software support service innovation?
Meyer, Jenny - 2009
Recent Internet technologies and web-based applications, such as social software, are being increasingly applied in firms. Social software can be employed for knowledge management and for external communication enabling access to internal and external knowledge. Knowledge in turn constitutes one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299172