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Famdata : Database for Family Business Companies in Germany Covering Company Key Figures and Survey Data

Garnitz, Johanna; Maltzan, Annette von; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2023

FamData is a database covering family businesses and non-family businesses across various size classes and branches containing structural and financial information. The ifo Institute assembled a business panel with executives from almost 4,000 companies. In addition to the “hard” business...

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German Firms in International Trade : Evidence from Recent Microdata

Fauth, Matthias; Jung, Benjamin; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2023

consolidated reporting of taxable entities and the reporting thresholds present in intra-EU trade have been largely eliminated …, distinguishing intra-EU and extra-EU trade as well as different firm types (producers, wholesalers, retailers). Finally, we reveal …

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Sudden Stop : When Did Firms Anticipate the Potential Consequences of COVID-19?

Buchheim, Lukas - 2020

COVID-19 hit firms by surprise. In a high frequency, representative panel of German firms, the business outlook declined and business uncertainty increased only when the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic led to domestic policy changes: The announcement of nation-wide school closures on March 13...

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Strategic Inattention, Inflation Dynamics, and the Non-Neutrality of Money

Afrouzi, Hassan - 2020

How does competition affect information acquisition of firms and thus the response of inflation and output to monetary policy shocks? This paper addresses these questions in a new dynamic general equilibrium model with both dynamic rational inattention and oligopolistic competition. In the...

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What Happened to U.S. Business Dynamism?

Akcigit, Ufuk - 2019

In the past several decades, the U.S. economy has witnessed a number of striking trends that indicate a rising market concentration and a slowdown in business dynamism. In this paper, we make an attempt to understand potential common forces behind these empirical regularities through the lens of...

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Ten Facts on Declining Business Dynamism and Lessons from Endogenous Growth Theory

Akcigit, Ufuk - 2019

In this paper, we review the literature on declining business dynamism and its implications in the United States and propose a unifying theory to analyze the symptoms and the potential causes of this decline. We first highlight 10 pronounced stylized facts related to declining business dynamism...

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History Dependence, Cohort Attachment, and Job Referrals in Networks of Close Relationships

Chen-Zion, Ayal - 2019

We model network formation in a firm. Agents learn about the quality of their working relationships with each other. Their good relationships become their networks. Accumulating relationships becomes increasingly costly, however. Over time agents become less open to forming relationships with...

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Voting with Their Money : Brexit and Outward Investment by UK Firms

Breinlich, Holger - 2019

number of UK outward investment transactions in the remaining EU27 member states, whereas transactions in non-EU OECD … retain access to the EU market after Brexit. At the same time, we find that the number of EU27 investment projects in the UK … has declined by around 9%, illustrating that being a smaller economy than the EU leaves the UK more exposed to the costs …

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Measuring Firm Activity from Outer Space

Bilicka, Katarzyna Anna; Seidel, André - 2022

To understand how global firm networks operate, we need consistent information on their activities, unbiased by their reporting choices. In this paper, we collect a novel dataset on the light that factories emit at night for a large sample of car manufacturing plants. We show that nightlight...

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Electricity and Firm Productivity : A General-Equilibrium Approach

Fried, Stephie; Lagakos, David - 2022

Many policymakers view power outages as a major constraint on firm productivity in developing countries. Yet empirical studies find modest short-run effects of outages on firm performance. This paper builds a dynamic macroeconomic model to study the long-run general-equilibrium effects of power...

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