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Innovation and Information Technology in Services
Licht, Georg; Moch, Dietmar - 1997
The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by various recent papers (e.g. Oliner and Sichels 1994, Landauer 1995, Brynjolfsson and Hitt 1996). Several explanations are given for this missing link. Our paper deals with two...
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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...
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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...
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The impact of parents migration on the well-being of children left behind: Initial evidence from Romania
Botezat, Alina; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration on their children left home in Romania, a country where increasingly … instrumental variable and bivariate probit estimates have been performed. Our initial evidence demonstrates that in Romania home …
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The impact of parents migration on the well-being of children left behind: Initial evidence from Romania
Botezat, Alina; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2014
paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration on their children left home in Romania, a country where increasingly … instrumental variable and bivariate probit estimates have been performed. Our initial evidence demonstrates that in Romania home …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352159
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Romania's development to a low-tax country: Effective corporate tax burden in Romania from 1992 to 2010 and Romania's current ranking among the eastern European member states
Spengel, Christoph; Lazar, Sebastian; Evers, Lisa; … - 2012
We trace back Romania's development to a low-tax country among the Member States of the European Union by analysing the … description of the development of corporate taxation in Romania, but goes on with a numerical analysis of the tax burdens at … different periods of time which constitute milestones in the development of corporate taxation in Romania. For this purpose, we …
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Hochschulranglisten als Qualitätsindikatoren im Wettbewerb der Hochschulen
Rincke, Johannes; Kraus, Margit; Büttner, Thiess - 2002
Am Beispiel der Wirtschaftswissenschaften wird untersucht, inwieweit Studierende die Qualität der Fachbereiche bei der Studienortwahl berücksichtigen. Im Rahmen eines Gravitationsansatzes zeigt sich, dass vor allem die Nähe zum Heimatort und die Lebenshaltungskosten am Ort der Hochschule die...
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Entry Deterrence in Postal Service Markets
Beschorner, Patrick Frank Ernst - 2007
In this paper we analyze the incentive of the German postal service (Deutsche Post AG, DPAG) to increase quality in the light of the upcoming liberalization of the postal services market. Currently, there would be no incentive for DPAG to increase its quality if the market were not to be...
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Liberalization of the Postal Service Market in Europe: Entry with Universal Service and Partial Coverage
Beschorner, Patrick Frank Ernst - 2008
In the advent of postal market liberalization in several European countries we expect that the incumbent operators anticipate entry by competitors who are not required to offer universal service, i.e. coverage of the entire country and uniform pricing. The market for postal service exhibits...
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Resale price maintenance and manufacturer competition for retail services
Hunold, Matthias; Muthers, Johannes - 2012
We investigate the incentives of manufacturers to use resale price maintenance (RPM) when selling products through common retailers. In our model retailers provide product specific pre-sales services. If the competitive retail margins are low, each manufacturer fixes a minimum price to induce...
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