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This paper examines the effects that purchased services and imported intermediate materials have on the labour demand for different skills in the manufacturing sector. We derive and estimate a factor demand system based on the generalised Box-Cox cost function nesting both the normalised...
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determinant for the export performance of firms. Does this mean that intense local user-producer interaction always leads to … export effective. We investigate data from the ZEW Innovation survey of 4,786 firms in the manufacturing and service … the export orientation of the domestic market of innovators such as and the degree of competition stimulate export success …
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-based firms in Germany and the UK, this paper applies logistic regressions and analyses empirically the probabilities of changing …
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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 …
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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 …
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internationalisation effects at the firm level. The results show that export experience and experience in knowledge protection are highly …
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internationalisation effects at the firm level. The results show that export experience and experience in knowledge protection are highly …
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This paper analyzes which factors are driving the ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment. Using the results of a poll among survey participants as well as Granger causality tests we identify three groups of influence factors: other sentiment indicators, financial variables and real economy data. In...
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Die Untersuchung analysiert das Sparverhalten der über 30- bis unter 50jährigen Personen bzw. Haushalte mit Haushaltsvorständen in dieser Altersgruppe in Reaktion auf erhaltene Erbschaften bzw. Transfers zu Lebzeiten. Zugrunde liegen aktuelle Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels. Mittels...
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With the establishment of the Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin) in May 2002 Germany followed the … authority in Germany. Moreover, BaFin?s tasks and structure are discussed. …
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