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Productivity effects of organizational change : microeconometric evidence

Bertschek, Irene; Kaiser, Ulrich - 2003 - This version: October 2003

the input factors and workplace reorganization. The estimation results show that changes in human resources practices do … observable firm heterogeneity are larger if workplace reorganization is realized. We therefore apply Kernel density estimation …

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Strategic complementarities between different types of ICT-expenditures

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2003

Multivariate Tobit models are estimated using German cross-sectional data to test whether strategic complementarities exist between expenditures in four different types of ICT-components. If two ICT-components are complements, they are correlated (provided that agents act rationally)....

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New technologies and the demand for heterogeneous labor : firm-level evidence for the German business-related services sector

Kaiser, Ulrich - 1999

This paper investigates the impact of modern information and communication technologies on the demand for heterogeneous labor. It starts with an interrelated factor demand system. The "desired" level of employment, which is needed in such models, is derived from a generalized Leontief cost...

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Differences in response patterns in a mixed mode : online/paper & pencil business survey

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2001

expectations concerning sales, prices, demand, profit and employment cannot be found. Binary probit model estimation results … indicate that online participation is not significantly affected by sector affiliation, affiliation to East or West Germany nor … bivariate probit model with sample selection estimation results show. In general, item-nonresponse tends to be higher for online-respondents. …

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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...

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Optimal cover prices and the effects of website provision on advertising and magazine demand

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2002

's magazines observed between 1998 and 2001 are used in the GMM estimation. Main findings are that my estimated marginals cost …: magazines, cost estimation, GMM estimation, website provision …

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Is a newspaper's companion website a competing outlet channel for the print version?

Kaiser, Ulrich (contributor) - 2005

This paper uses Granger non{causality tests to analyze if channel competition exists between the companion websites of 93 German newspapers observed between I/1998 and II/2005. It provides econometric evidence for significant negative effects of companion website tra±c on the print circulation...

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R&D cooperation and R&D intensity : theory and micro-econometric evidence for german manufacturing industries

Kaiser, Ulrich; Licht, Georg - 1998

This paper develops a three stage oligopoly game for R&D cooperation, R&D expenditure and product market competition. In the first stage, firms decide whether or not to conduct R&D in cooperation with other firms. In the second stage the level of R&D investment is determined. Finally, firms...

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A note on the calculation of firm-specific and skill-specific labor costs from firm-Ievel data

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2000

Virtually all empirical firm-level studies on the demand for labor do not include labor cost in the econometric specification. This is due to the fact that business and innovation survey data usually lack information on labor cost. This paper shows how reliable skill-specific and firm-specific...

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Kaiser, Ulrich; Voß, Katrin - 1999

In an a priori view, it is usually assumed that the business cycle of manufacturing industries leads the business cycle of the service sector. This seems to be even more plausible for the relationship between business-related services, whose high growth rates in recent years were largely due to...

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