Recently researchers in Germany were given the opportunity to use some of the business data provided by the Federal Statistical Office at their own workplace as Scientific Use Files (SUF). One of the anonymisation procedures used for the generation of SUF is multiplicative stochastic noise....

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...

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’...