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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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Daten des IAB-Betriebspanels und Firmenpaneldaten aus Erhebungen der Amtlichen Statistik: Substitutive oder komplementäre Inputs für die Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung?

Wagner, Joachim - 2012

werden können, stammen in Deutschland vor allem aus zwei Quellen, dem IAB-Betriebspanel und den AFiD-Panel, wobei das Akronym … AFiD für Amtliche Firmendaten für Deutschland steht, die von den Statistischen Ämtern erhoben werden. In diesem Vortrag … Deutschland sowohl das IAB-Betriebspanel als auch die AFiD-Panel enthalten muss, denn nur so ist sicher gestellt, dass ein …

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The Great Export Recovery in German manufacturing industries, 2009/2010

Wagner, Joachim - 2012

This paper uses comprehensive high-quality panel data from official statistics for exporting enterprises to investigate the micro-structure of the recent export recovery in 2010 in manufacturing industries in Germany after the great recession of 2008/2009. Almost all of the increase in exports...

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Exports, R&D and productivity: A test of the Bustos-model with German enterprise data

Wagner, Joachim - 2012

This paper presents the first empirical test with German firm level data of a hypothesis derived by Bustos (AER 2011) in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to export and to engage in R&D. Using a non-parametric test for first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in...

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Lingering illness or sudden death? Pre-exit employment developments in German establishments

Fackler, Daniel; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2012

Anhand umfangreicher administrativer Daten für Deutschland vergleicht diese Studie Beschäftigungsentwicklungen in …

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Trading many goods with many countries: Exporters and importers from German manufacturing industries

Wagner, Joachim - 2012

In Germany, for the reporting year 2009 transaction-level data on exports and imports of goods have been aggregated at the level of the exporting or importing firm for the first time. In these data the number of goods exported and imported and the number of countries exported to and imported...

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The impact of R&D activities on exports of German business services enterprises: First evidence from a continuous treatment approach

Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2012

This study uses newly available representative data from German business services firms and a continuous treatment approach based on the generalized propensity score to test for a causal effect of R&D activities (measured by the share of engineers and natural scientists in all employees) on the...

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German multiple-product, multiple-destination exporters: Bernard-Redding-Schott under test

Wagner, Joachim - 2012

Export is dominated by enterprises that trade more than one good with customers in more than one destination country. Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, is a case in point. Theoretical models of multiple-product, multipledestination exporters that can guide...

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Credit constraints and exports: Evidence for German manufacturing enterprises

Wagner, Joachim - 2012

This study uses newly available enterprise level data for firms from manufacturing industries in Germany to test for the link between credit constraints, measured by a credit rating score from the leading credit rating agency Creditreform, and exports. In line with hypotheses from theoretical...

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Productivity and the extensive margins of trade in German manufacturing firms: Evidence from a non-parametric test

Wagner, Joachim - 2012

This paper contributes to the literature by comparing the productivity distribution for firms with various numbers of goods traded and various numbers of countries traded with from Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods. It applies a non-parametric test for first-order...

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