Whereas the literature on additive measurement error has known a considerable treatment, less work has been done for multiplicative noise. In this paper we concentrate on multiplicative measurement error in the covariates, which contrary to additive error not only modies proportionally the...

Dieser Beitrag befasst sich mit der Untersuchung der Auswirkungen der datenverändernden Anonymisierungsverfahren ’variablenspezifische abstandsorientierte Mikroaggregation’ (vaabMA, im Englischen auch als Individual Ranking bezeichnet) und ’multiplikative stochastische Überlagerung’...

The present paper analyses whether and how the affiliation of a firm to a business group affects its productivity. Based on novel data consisting of official firm data from the German Business Register including ownership information from Bureau van Dijk's MARKUS database and from the Cost...

This paper uses detailed micro data on service exports at the firm-destination-service level to analyse the role of firm heterogeneity in shaping aggregate service exports in Belgium, France, Germany and Spain from 2003 to 2007. We decompose the level and the growth of aggregate service exports...