The use of large datasets for macroeconomic forecasting has received a great deal of interest recently. Boosting is one possible method of using high-dimensional data for this purpose. It is a stage-wise additive modelling procedure, which, in a linear specification, becomes a variable selection...

With this paper we present the first microeconometric analysis of the impact of a foreign acquisition on the target firms' access to finance. By using a large database of German firms we furthermore investigate for the first time the link between foreign ownership and access to finance in...

Die Beiträge des 58. Deutschen Betriebswirtschaftertags 2004 dokumentieren die Analyse der Strategien und Prozesse, die zum Unternehmenserfolg im internationalen Wettbewerb beitragen. Best-practice-Beispiele Wissenschaftlich fundierte Konzepte