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Critical Success Factors for Online-Shops of Drugstores
Svechla, Sabrina; Fischer, Jessica; Ferdinand, Hans-Michael - In: Markenbrand (2014) 2/2014, pp. 17-25
The digitalization of the every-day life also affects buying habits of customers. Changes that take place regarding these habits result in an increasing number of e-commerce retailers. Online-shops in the business-to-consumer field are especially successful with apparel and electronic products....
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Who Creates Jobs? Estimating Job Creation Rates at the Firm Level
Huber, Peter; Oberhofer, Harald; Pfaffermayr, Michael - 2012
This paper shows that applying simple employment-weighted OLS estimation to Davis - Haltiwanger - Schuh (1996) firm level job creation rates taking the values 2 and -2 for entering and exiting firms, respectively, provides biased and inconsistent parameter estimates. Consequently, we argue that...
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Robust estimation and inference in panels with interactive fixed effects
Armstrong, Timothy B.; Weidner, Martin; Zeleneev, Andrei - 2023
We consider estimation and inference for a regression coefficient in panels with interactive fixed effects (i.e., with a factor structure). We show that previously developed estimators and confidence intervals (CIs) might be heavily biased and size-distorted when some of the factors are weak. We...
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Es weihnachtet unterschiedlich im europäischen Einzelhandel
Frei, Xenia - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 22 (2015) 6, pp. 47-50
Einzelhandel. In diesem Artikel wird die Bedeutung des Weihnachtsgeschäftes für den deutschen Einzelhandel dargestellt und mit den … Weihnachtsgeschäftes für den Einzelhandel innerhalb Europas weiter zu verstärken. …
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Kundenkenntnis im Handel - Ausprägungen, Herkunft und Wirkungen
Silberer, Günter (contributor) - 2009
Die Bedeutung der Kundenkenntnis für den Markterfolg der Anbieter ist unbestritten. Dennoch wissen wir wenig darüber, wie gut die Anbieter ihre Kunden kennen. Dies gilt auch für den Handel. Deshalb befasst sich die hier vorgelegte Publikation mit der Ausprägung der Kundenkenntnis im Handel,...
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Small area poverty estimation by Conditional Monte Carlo
Farrell, Niall - 2024
Small area poverty estimates are important for social and economic policy, however the required data are often unavailable. This paper presents a Small Area Estimation (SAE) technique called Conditional Monte Carlo (CMC). CMC provides robust estimates of small area poverty rates, subject to...
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Estimating Loss Functions of Experts
Franses, Philip Hans; Legerstee, Rianne; Paap, Richard - 2011
normality assumption. We apply our approach to a large data set of SKU-level sales forecasts made by experts and we compare the … outcomes with those for statistical model-based forecasts of the same sales data. We find substantial evidence for asymmetry in …
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Zeitvarianz und Zeitinvarianz - mathematische Untersuchungen zum Zeitverhalten des Produktlebenszyklus
Herold, Jörg; Polzin, Kerstin - 2011
Accurate forecasts of sales opportunities and market potential for innovation today can be a decisive factor in order …
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Managing Sales Forecasters
de Bruijn, Bert; Franses, Philip Hans - 2012
A Forecast Support System (FSS), which generates sales forecasts, is a sophisticated business analytical tool that can … managers to quote their own forecasts. These sales forecasters (managers) can take the FSS output as their input, but they can … for a large Germany-based pharmaceutical company, can in fact be used to manage the sales forecasters by giving clear …
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Do Experts incorporate Statistical Model Forecasts and should they?
Legerstee, Rianne; Franses, Philip Hans; Paap, Richard - 2011
realizations of SKU-level sales data from a pharmaceutical company. We find that expert forecasts can depend on model forecasts in … a variety of ways. Average sales levels, sales volatility, and the forecast horizon influence this dependence. We also …
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