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Fortschritte bei der Exportorientierung von Dienstleistungsunternehmen

Eickelpasch, Alexander - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 25, pp. 339-346

Im Zuge der zunehmenden Internationalisierung der deutschen Wirtschaft ist auch eine wachsende Exportorientierung der deutschen Dienstleistungswirtschaft zu erwarten. Über das Exportverhalten von Anbietern unternehmensnaher Dienstleistungen ist jedoch im Gegensatz zu Industrieunternehmen...

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Foreign and domestic takeovers in Germany: Cherry-picking and lemon-grabbing

Weche-Gelübcke, John P. - 2012

This study focuses on ex ante performance of domestic and foreign takeover targets in Germany, one of the most important FDI inflow destinations worldwide. Using a new database from German official statistics, unconditional comparisons as well as binary response model estimations of takeover...

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Service Imports, Workforce Composition, and Firm Performance: Evidence from Finnish Microdata

Ariu, Andrea; Nilsson Hakkala, Katariina; Jensen, J. … - 2019

This paper uses unique Finnish firm-level micro data on service imports, workforce composition, and firm characteristics to examine changes in employment composition and performance of Finnish service importers during a period of a significant increase in services imports (2002-2012). We use...

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On the Autocorrelation of Growth Rates: Evidence for Micro, Small and Large Firms from the Austrian Service Industries, 1975-2004

Coad, Alex; Hölzl, Werner - 2008

This paper studies the serial autocorrelation of annual growth rates in employment for selected Austrian service industries over a 30-year period using quantile regression techniques. The autocorrelation of growth rates provides important information on firms growth processes. We find that the...

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Internationalisierung von kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen im Dienstleistungssektor im Lichte der (amtlichen) Statistik

Kranzusch, Peter; Pahnke, André; Kay, Rosemarie; Holz, … - 2016

Der Dienstleistungshandel Deutschlands hat seit 2001 erheblich zugenommen. Inwieweit KMU des Dienstleistungssektors am … Dienstleistungshandel teilnehmen, war bisher unklar. Unsere Analysen zeigen, dass zwar nur 14% dieser KMU exportieren, sie aber anteilsmäßig … stärker zum Exportvolumen des Sektors beitragen als KMU im Verarbeitenden Gewerbe. Dienstleistungen werden vor allem zwischen …

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Kleine und mittlere Unternehmen der Informations- und Kommunikationswirtschaft in Nordrhein-Westfalen

Maaß, Frank; Schröder, Christian; Wolter, Hans-Jürgen - 2013

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht den IKT-Sektor in Nordrhein-Westfalen anhand von Sonderauswertungen der amtlichen Statistik des Umsatzsteuerpanels sowie der Daten einer eigenen Unternehmensbefragung. Dabei erweist sich dieses Bundesland als Standort mit einem weitgehend prosperierenden...

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Visualizing exploratory factor analysis models

Klinke, Sigbert; Wagner, Cornelia - 2008

Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) is an important tool in data analyses, particularly in social science. Usually four steps are carried out which contain an large number of options. One important option is the number of factors and the association of variables with a factor. Our tools aim to...

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A note on the model selection risk for ANOVA based adaptive forecasting of the EURIBOR swap term structure

Blaskowitz, Oliver J.; Herwartz, Helmut - 2008

The paper proposes a data driven adaptive model selection strategy. The selection crite- rion measures economic exante forecasting content by means of trading implied cash flows. Empirical evidence suggests that the proposed strategy is neither exposed to selection bias nor to the risk of...

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Generalized Measurement Invariance Tests with Application to Factor Analysis

Merkle, Edgar C.; Zeileis, Achim - 2011

The issue of measurement invariance commonly arises in factor-analytic contexts, with methods for assessment including likelihood ratio tests, Lagrange multiplier tests, and Wald tests. These tests all require advance definition of the number of groups, group membership, and offending model...

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A solution to the problem of too many instruments in dynamic panel data GMM

Mehrhoff, Jens - 2009

The well-known problem of too many instruments in dynamic panel data GMM is dealt with in detail in Roodman (2009, Oxford Bull. Econ. Statist.). The present paper goes one step further by providing a solution to this problem: factorisation of the standard instrument set is shown to be a valid...

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