In an a priori view, it is usually assumed that the business cycle of manufacturing industries leads the business cycle … high growth rates in recent years were largely due to increased outsourcing activities of the manufacturing sector. In this … between sales growth rates of the business-related service sector against growth rates of various series of the manufacturing …

potential output overestimated) before the recent crisis. It is fair to say that the employed estimation techniques failed to … into account in conventional methods for the estimation of potential output and the output gap. Since both, potential …

manufacturing firms in Germany. Our difference-in-differences framework relies on several parametric conditioning strategies and …

determinants of energy efficiency in the German manufacturing sector based on official firm-level production census data. By means … efficiency in most industries of the German manufacturing sector. Furthermore, we find that in most industries exporting and …

, we investigate the employment effects of innovations over the business cycle. Our analysis employs a large data set of … manufacturing firms from 26 European countries over the period from 1998 to 2010. Using the structural model of Harrison et al …. (2014), our empirical analysis reveals four important findings: First, the net effect of product innovation on employment …

. Estimation results show that this relationship is upward sloping. Nonparametric specification tests do not reject monotonicity …