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A statistical approach to detect cheating interviewers
Bredl, Sebastian; Winker, Peter; Kötschau, Kerstin - 2008
Survey data are potentially affected by cheating interviewers. Even a small number of fabricated interviews might seriously impair the results of further empirical analysis. Besides reinterviews some statistical approaches have been proposed for identifying fabrication of interviews. As a novel...
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M&A im Bereich Erneuerbarer Energien
Fritz-Morgenthal, Sebastian G.; Hach, Sebastian T.; … - 2010
industries in the sector-specific takeover market, this working paper proves the common knowledge for the example of … corporate characteristics are of significant importance. With respect to prevailing takeover strategies, the survey reveals a …-affected takeover strategies that are elaborated on more closely within the working paper. Examining an acquisition focus in terms of …
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Mergers under asymmetric information - is there a lemons problem?
Borek, Thomas; Bühler, Stefan; Schmutzler, Armin - 2004
We analyze a Bayesian merger game under two-sided asymmetric information about firm types. We show that the standard … prediction of the lemons market model-if any, only low-type firms are traded-is likely to be misleading: Merger returns, i.e. the … difference between pre- and post-merger profits, are not necessarily higher for low-type firms. This has two implications. First …
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Merge or fail? The determinants of mergers and bankruptcies in Switzerland, 1995-2000
Buehler, Stefan; Kaiser, Christian; Jaeger, Franz - 2005
This paper examines the determinants of mergers and bankruptcies, using firm level data from the Swiss Business Census and the Dun & Bradstreet exit database for Switzerland (1995-2000). Employing duration analysis, we find considerable differences in the determinants of mergers and...
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On heterogeneous latent class models with applications to the analysis of rating scores
Bertrand, Aurélie; Hafner, Christian M. - 2011
Discovering the preferences and the behaviour of consumers is a key challenge in marketing. Information about such topics can be gathered through surveys in which the respondents must assign a score to a number of items. In this article we suggest a strategy to analyze such data and achieve this...
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Does globalization restrict budgetary autonomy? A multidimensional approach
Heinemann, Friedrich - 1999
Does globalization restrict the leeway for national budgetary policy? With the help of cluster and discriminant analysis this study provides evidence on the basis of the experience of OECD countries since the 1970s. Four budgetary dimensions are included in the analysis: tax structure,...
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Typology of rural areas in the Central and Eastern European EU new member States
Baum, Sabine; Trapp, Christian; Weingarten, Peter - 2004
. Die erste Typisierung mithilfe einer Clusteranalyse klassifizierte die NUTS-3-Regionen der 10 mittel- und osteuropäischen …
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Enhanced cooporation in an enlarged EU
Ahrens, Joachim; Ohr, Renate; Zeddies, Götz - 2006
The paper adresses the need for more flexibility in the integration process of the European Union after its recent eastward enlargement. Due to the increasing number of decision-makers and the increasing heterogeneity of economic structures, financial constraints, societal preferences, and...
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Nonparametric Multiple Change Point Analysis of the Global Financial Crisis
Allen, David E.; McAleer, Michael; Powell, Robert J.; … - 2013
This paper presents an application of a recently developed approach by Matteson and James (2012) for the analysis of change points in a data set, namely major financial market indices converted to financial return series. The general problem concerns the inference of a change in the distribution...
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Euro area banking sector integration: using hierarchical cluster analysis techniques
Sørensen, Christoffer Kok; Puigvert Gutiérrez, Josep Maria - 2006
In this study we apply cluster analysis techniques, including a novel smoothing method, to detect some basic patterns and trends in the euro area banking sector in terms of the degree of homogeneity of countries. We find that in the period 1998-2004 the banking sectors in the euro area countries...
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