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What Drives the Location Choice of New Manufacturing Plants in Germany?

Krenz, Astrid - 2019

and West Germany. In this paper I focus on the differences in new German manufacturing plants' location choices across the … plant to locate by 4 percent in overall Germany, by 7.6 percent among East German regions and by 26.5 percent in particular … in East Germany by 8.3 percent in particular for large plants. Policy implications emerge that address in particular the …

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Satisfaction of German Agricultural Machinery Dealers with Manufacturers – An Empirical Investigation

Staus, Alexander; Becker, Tilman - 2011

This paper investigates the satisfaction of dealers with their suppliers in the agricultural machinery sector. While there are some studies about the satisfaction of automobile dealers with their manufacturers, this paper presents the first investigation in the area of agricultural machinery....

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IT Outsourcing and Employment Growth at the Firm Level

Ohnemus, Jörg - 2014

Outsourcing is widely associated with accompanied job losses in the outsourcing firm, at least in the short run. However, the medium and long run effects of outsourcing on employment growth might still be positive. This paper particularly focuses on IT outsourcing and its medium-term effects on...

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Supply Chain Flexibility, Uncertainty and Firm Performance : An Empirical Analysis of German Manufacturing Firms

Merschmann, Ulf; Thonemann, Ulrich W. - 2010

Supply chain flexibility is widely seen as one major response to increasing uncertainty and competition in the marketplace. Researches and practioners acknowledge the competitive advantage of supply chain flexibility. However, flexibility is costly. Thus, a match between flexibility and...

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Is there a Relationship between Industry Concentration and Patent Activity?

Miller, Shawn P. - 2010

The relationship between market concentration and quantity of patent activity may reveal more than the validity of Schumpeter’s (1942) hypothesis that innovation is greater in imperfectly competitive markets. Empirical estimates of the relationship may reveal the relative importance of...

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Product Policy and the East-West Productivity Gap : Evidence from German Manufacturing Firms

Görzig, Bernd; Gornig, Martin; Voshage, Ramona; … - 2009

product policy. We analyse these questions with a unique data set provided by Statistics Germany that contains both product …

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Sectoral Differences in Wage Freezes and Wage Cuts : Evidence from a New Firm Survey

Bonin, Holger; Radowski, Daniel - 2008

, using a new and large employer survey on wage and price setting behaviour for Germany. We observe that wage freezes are more …

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Clean and Productive? Evidence from the German Manufacturing Industry

Böhringer, Christoph; Moslener, Ulf; Oberndorfer, Ulrich; … - 2013

We analyze the productivity effects of environmental (green) investment as well as of environmental expenditures and energy expenditures. For this purpose, we follow a production function approach where we account for these investment and expenditure categories as inputs. Based on a panel...

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Sectoral Innovation Systems, Corporate Strategies, and Competitiveness of the German Economy in a Globalised World

Rothgang, Michael - 2015

sector. The empirical analysis is based on a unique survey of R&D-intensive business firms in Germany and 50 personal …

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What Drives the Productive Efficiency of a Firm? The Importance of Industry, Location, R&D, and Size

Badunenko, Oleg; Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - 2008

This paper investigates the factors that explain the level and dynamics of manufacturing firm productive efficiency. In our empirical analysis, we use a unique sample of about 39,000 firms in 256 industries from the German Cost Structure Census over the years 1992-2005. We estimate the...

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