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The effects of website provision on the demand for German women's magazines
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2001
What happens to demand if a magazine launches a website? This question is empirically analyzed for the German women?s magazine market, a particularly large segment of the German magazine where fierce competition is reigning. Models for differentiated product demand are estimated on panel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297806
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The effects of website provision on the demand for German women's magazines
Kaiser, Ulrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001
What happens to demand if a magazine launches a website? This question is empirically analyzed for the German women?s magazine market, a particularly large segment of the German magazine where fierce competition is reigning. Models for differentiated product demand are estimated on panel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098115
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Information design with frame choice
Evsyukova, Yulia; Innocenti, Federico; Lomys, Niccolò - 2024
We study how framing interplays with information design. Whereas Sender conceives all contingencies separately, Receiver cannot initially distinguish among some of them, i.e., has a coarse frame. To influence Receiver's behavior, Sender first decides whether to refine Receiver's frame and then...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015324416
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Rejecting capital-skill complementarity at all costs
Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2001
Any serious empirical study of factor substitutability has to allow the data to display complementarity as well as substitutability. The standard approach reflecting this idea is a translog specification – this is also the approach used by numerous studies analyzing the relative capital-skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297764
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The empirical assessment of technology differences: comparing the comparable
Schmidt, Christoph M.; Frondel, Manuel - 2002
This paper compares technologies across space and time on the basis of factual and counterfactual substitution elasticities and argues that differences in estimated substitution elasticities should be decomposed into two counterfactual components. While the first component is designed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297858
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Rejecting capital-skill complementarity at all costs
Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001
Any serious empirical study of factor substitutability has to allow the data to display complementarity as well as substitutability. The standard approach reflecting this idea is a translog specification – this is also the approach used by numerous studies analyzing the relative capital-skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097559
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The empirical assessment of technology differences: comparing the comparable
Schmidt, Christoph M.; Frondel, Manuel - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002
This paper compares technologies across space and time on the basis of factual and counterfactual substitution elasticities and argues that differences in estimated substitution elasticities should be decomposed into two counterfactual components. While the first component is designed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097658
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Firm Level Innovation and Productivity: Is there a Common Story Across Countries?
Peters, Bettina; Lööf, Hans; Janz, Norbert - 2003
number of national firm level studies on the innovation-productivity link have been conducted using new internationally …, innovation output and productivity, we find to a very large extent a common cross-country story for knowledge intensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297274
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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 …) has a stronger effect on the quality of services than on the productivity of the IT-using firm. IT investment seems to be … especially the most recent generation of IT as indicated by the number of PCs used is the source of productivity growth whereas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297561
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Product market competition, corporate governance and firm performance: an empirical analysis for Germany
Januszewski, Silke I.; Köke, Jens; Winter, Joachim K. - 1999
Productivity growth has been slow in many continental European countries over the last few decades, especially in … product market competition experience higher rates of productivity growth. We also find weak evidence for the notion that in … Germany?s bank-based system of internal control, ownership concentration is harmful for productivity growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297660