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Die Handelseffekte der österreichischen EU-Mitgliedschaft 25 Jahre nach der Volksabstimmung
Oberhofer, Harald; Streicher, Gerhard - 2019
Austria's membership referendum, this study quantifies the trade and welfare effects induced by Austrians EU membership. In a … first step and by making use of a gravity model, the study calculates the trade effects of Austria's EU membership …. Accordingly, in the long-run Austria trades about 46% more goods with the other EU member states. This trade effect is then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012643999
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Die Handelseffekte der österreichischen EU-Mitgliedschaft 25 Jahre nach der Volksabstimmung
Oberhofer, Harald; Streicher, Gerhard - 2019
Austria's membership referendum, this study quantifies the trade and welfare effects induced by Austrians EU membership. In a … first step and by making use of a gravity model, the study calculates the trade effects of Austria's EU membership …. Accordingly, in the long-run Austria trades about 46% more goods with the other EU member states. This trade effect is then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012197025
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Firm growth, European industry dynamics and domestic business cycles
Oberhofer, Harald - FIW - 2010
Based on the empirical firm growth literature and on heterogeneous (microeconomic) adjustment models, this paper empirically investigates the impact of European industry fluctuations and domestic business cycles on the growth performance of European firms. Since the implementation of the Single...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008643791
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Firm Survival in Professional Sports: Evidence from the German Football League
Oberhofer, Harald; Philippovich, Tassilo; Winner, Hannes - Fachbereich Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2010
This paper investigates firm survival in professional football, arguing that the relegation and promotion system in football leagues is very similar to firm exits and entries in traditional goods and service markets. Empirically, we use a dataset containing information on how long football teams...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008691711
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Job Creation and the Intra-distribution Dynamics of the Firm Size Distribution
Huber, Peter; Oberhofer, Harald; Pfaffermayr, Michael - Fachbereich Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2012
Based on a three equations model for initial firm size, survival and firm growth we estimate firm-specific transition probabilities between size classes of the firm size distribution. This allows to analyze counterfactual scenarios that assess the impact of changes in exogenous variables on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010840883
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Who Creates Jobs? Estimating Job Creation Rates at the Firm Level
Huber, Peter; Oberhofer, Harald; Pfaffermayr, Michael - Fachbereich Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2013
This paper analyzes econometric models of the Davis, Haltiwanger and Schuh (1996) job creation rate. In line with the most recent job creation literature, we focus on employment-weighted OLS estimation. Our main theoretical result reveals that employment-weighted OLS estimation of DHS job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010840887
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A Note on Merger and Acquisition Evaluation
Furlan, Benjamin; Oberhofer, Harald; Winner, Hannes - Fachbereich Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2014
This note proposes the continuous treatment approach as a valuable alternative to propensity score matching for evaluating economic effects of merger and acquisitions (M&A). This framework allows to consider the variation in treatment intensities explicitly, and it does not call for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010840889
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Institutional Barriers and Job Creation in Central and Eastern Europe
Crespo Cuaresma, Jesus; Oberhofer, Harald; Vincelette, … - Fachbereich Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2014
Using information from the Amadeus dataset and the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey, we provide an empirical investigation of the industry and firm-specific determinants of the intensive margin (i.e., within existing firms) job creation process in eleven Central and Eastern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010840891
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Die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der österreichischen Exportwirtschaft: Die Rolle der KMUs
Oberhofer, Harald - FIW - 2014
Für Österreich als kleine offene Volkswirtschaft ist die internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit seiner Un-ternehmen für den wirtschaftlichen Wohlstand entscheidend. Darüber hinaus prägen kleine und mittel-ständische Unternehmen (KMUs) die Struktur der heimischen Wirtschaft. Somit sind sie...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011124383
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Firm growth and productivity in Belarus: New empirical evidence from the machine building industry
Crespo Cuaresma, Jesus; Oberhofer, Harald; Vincelette, … - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 42 (2014) 3, pp. 726-738
Using a unique dataset comprising information for (up to) 153 firms in the machine building sector in Belarus, we investigate the determinants of firm growth for an economy where state ownership of enterprises is widespread. We use panel data models based on generalizations of Gibrat’s law,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010931326