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Productivity, markups, and reallocation: Evidence from French manufacturing firms from 1994 to 2016
De Monte, Enrico - 2024
This paper investigates the evolution of aggregate productivity and markups among French manufacturing firms between 1994 and 2016, by focusing on the role of reallocation with respect to both aggregate measures. Firm-level productivity and markups are estimated based on a gross output translog...
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Selection bias in innovation studies: A simple test
De Rassenfosse, Gaétan; Wastyn, Annelies - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
The study of the innovative output of firms often relies on a count of patents filed at one single office of reference such as the European Patent Office (EPO). Yet, not all firms file their patents at the EPO, raising the specter of a selection bias. Using a novel dataset of the whole...
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An investigation of record linkage refusal and its implications for empirical research
Warnke, Arne Jonas - 2017
Linking survey data to administrative records provides access to large quantities of information such as full employment biographies. Although this practice is becoming increasingly common, only a small number of studies in the field of social sciences have thus far investigated the variables...
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Disambiguation by namesake risk assessment
Doherr, Thorsten - 2021
Most bibliometric databases only provide names as the handle to their careers leading to the issue of namesakes. We introduce a universal method to assess the risk of linking documents of different individuals sharing the same name with the goal of collecting the documents into personalized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012439331
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Selection bias in innovation studies: A simple test
De Rassenfosse, Gaétan; Wastyn, Annelies - 2012
The study of the innovative output of firms often relies on a count of patents filed at one single office of reference such as the European Patent Office (EPO). Yet, not all firms file their patents at the EPO, raising the specter of a selection bias. Using a novel dataset of the whole...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308261
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Higher-order income risk over the business cycle
Busch, Christopher; Ludwig, Alexander - 2020
We extend the canonical income process with persistent and transitory risk to shock distributions with left-skewness … data from the United States. We find countercyclical variance and procyclical skewness of persistent shocks. All shock … distributions are highly leptokurtic. The existing tax and transfer system reduces dispersion and left-skewness of shocks. We then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012216808
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Productivity effects of business process outsourcing: a firm-level investigation based on panel data
Ohnemus, Jörg - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
This paper analyses the impact of business process outsourcing (BPO) on firm productivity based on a comprehensive German firm-level panel data set covering manufacturing and service industries. The growing importance of service inputs into the production process is undisputed. Firms...
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Politicians' opinions on rivals in the competition for firms: An empirical analysis of reference points near a border
Geys, Benny; Osterloh, Steffen - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
Studies of spatial policy interdependence in (local) public policies usually concentrate on the relations between jurisdictions within a single analysed region, and disregard possible extra-regional effects. This paper evaluates the validity of such restriction by studying German local...
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Cartel detection in procurement markets
Hüschelrath, Kai; Veith, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
Cartel detection is usually viewed as a key task of either competition authorities or compliance officials in firms with an elevated risk of cartelization. We argue that customers of hard core cartels can have both incentives and possibilities to detect such agreements on their own initiative...
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The effects of public spending composition on firm productivity
Kneller, Richard; Misch, Florian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
This paper exploits the unique institutional features of South Africa to estimate the impact of provincial public spending on health, education and transport on firm productivity. Our identification strategy is based on within industry-province differences between firms of the effects of public...
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