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Enterprise systems and labor productivity : disentangling combination effects
Engelstätter, Benjamin - 2009
This study analyzes the relationship between the three main enterprise systems (Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM)) and labor productivity. It reveals the performance gains due to different combinations of these systems. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003871217
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Enterprise systems and innovations
Engelstätter, Benjamin - 2009
This paper analyzes the relationship between the three main enterprise systems (Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM)) and firms’ innovational performance. It studies whether the enterprise systems have impacts on process as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003914351
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The impact of intergovernmental grants on cost efficiency : theory and evidence from German municipalities
Kalb, Alexander (contributor) - 2008
In this paper we use a simple bureaucracy model of fiscal illusion to analyze the impact of intergovernmental grants on the cost effciency of local jurisdictions. We find that a higher degree of redistribution within a system of fiscal equalization or an increase in the amount of grants received...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003728661
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Why training older employees is less effective
Zwick, Thomas - 2011
This paper shows that training of older employees is less effective. Training effectiveness is measured with respect to key dimensions such as career development, earnings, adoption of new skills, flexibility or job security. Older employees also pursue less ambitious goals with their training...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009232254
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University rankings in action? : The importance of rankings and an excellence competition for university choice of high-ability students?
Horstschräer, Julia - 2011
This paper analyzes how high-ability students respond to different indicators of university quality when applying for a university. Are some quality dimensions of a ranking, e.g. research reputation or mentoring more important than others? I estimate a random utility model using administrative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009374442
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Citation frequency and the value of patented innovation
Harhoff, Dietmar; Narin, Francis; Scherer, Frederic M.; … - 1997
Through a survey, economic value estimates were obtained on 962 inventions made in the United States and Germany and on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440946
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Exploring the tail of patented invention value distributions
Harhoff, Dietmar; Scherer, Frederic M.; Vopel, Katrin - 1997
We explore the tail of patented invention value distributions by using value estimates obtained directly from patent holders. The paper focuses on those full-term German patents of the application year 1977 which were held by West German and U.S. residents. The most valuable patents in our data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440960
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Accuracy and properties of German business cycle forecasts
Osterloh, Steffen (contributor) - 2006
In this paper the accuracy of a wide range of German business cycle forecasters is assessed for the past 10 years. For this purpose, a data set is used comprising forecasts published on a monthly basis by Consensus Economics. The application of several descriptive as well as statistical measures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003401060
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Technological uncertainty and cost-effectiveness of CO2 emission trading schemes
Löschel, Andreas (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper studies implications of uncertainty about the arrival date of a competitive CO2 backstop technology for the design of cost-effective CO2 emission trading schemes. For this purpose, we develop a dynamic general equilibrium model that captures empirical links between CO2 emissions...
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How do employment effects of job creation schemes differ with respect to the foregoing unemployment duration?
Hujer, Reinhard (contributor);  … - 2006
Based on new administrative data for Germany covering entrances into job creation schemes between July 2000 and May … into quarters, regional (East and West Germany) as well as gender differences are considered in the estimation. As matching … influences. The results in terms of employment present a mixed picture. For West Germany, most of the estimates are insignificant …
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