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December fever in public finance
Eichenauer, Vera - 2020
Public spending often increases at the end of fiscal years. This is undesirable because late spending tends to be inefficient. The causes for these spending spikes are however poorly understood. This paper offers a novel identification strategy that relies on the historic variation in countries'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152488
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Power to the people? : The impact of decentralization on governance
Dreher, Axel - 2006
The paper analyzes the impact of decentralization on governance employing four indicators of governance and five measures of decentralization. Depending on data availability, crosssections for a maximum of 129 countries are estimated. Results for a panel of about 70 countries over the period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003289307
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Do response rates and responses differ between mail and internet answers in a mixed mode survey? : A comparison of qualitative business survey data collected by regular mail and internet questionnaires
Etter, Richard (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
For many years, Business Tendency Surveys on the basis of mailing suffer from an erosion of the response rate. To counter this problem, there are traditional methods as limitation of the number of questions, improvement of the design of the questionnaire, intensified recalls by mail or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001767702
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The KOF macro model in a time series perspective : part one: the Swiss production function
Müller, Christian (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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The Swiss disease : facts and artefacts
Abrahamsen, Yngve; Aeppli, Roland; Atukeren, Erdal; … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
rich countries: New Zealand and Switzerland. We briefly discuss Kehoe/Prescott's definition of a "great depression … perform sensitivity tests with respect to alternative operationalisations for Switzerland and the U.S. It is shown that with …-performing Switzerland reduces considerably. Yet, this still does not explain the comparatively poor economic growth in Switzerland during …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001767731
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Methodology to correct the unit non-response bias in the case of the KOF ETH Survey 2000 on organization and information technologies
Donzé, Laurent (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
In order to correct the bias due to unit non-response for the KOF ETH Zurich's business (mail) surveys, we usually use the results of a second (phone) survey by the non-respondents. Taking the case of the survey 2000 on "Organization and Information Technologies" in the Swiss economy, we...
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Determinants of the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT) : an empirical analysis based on firm-level data for the Swiss business sector
Hollenstein, Heinz (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
The paper investigates empirically the decision of firms to adopt Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) based on a comprehensive specification of a "rank model" of technology adoption (complemented by "epidemic effects") using firm-level data for the Swiss business sector. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001767807
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Innovation modes in the Swiss service sector : a cluster analysis based on firm-level data
Hollenstein, Heinz (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
The aim of this paper is, firstly, to contribute to the understanding of innovation patterns in services. To this end, firms which are similar in terms of a large set of innovation indicators were grouped into clusters. For the Swiss case, it was possible to identify five clusters which exhibit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001767813
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Patterns and determinants of international activities: are SMEs different? : An empirical analysis based on firm-level data for the Swiss business sector
Hollenstein, Heinz (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
The literature on the internationalisation of firms has paid little attention to SMEs. SME-oriented studies are predominantly descriptive or illustrating theoretical arguments, and those dealing with services are mostly confined to specific industries. The paper aims at correcting some of these...
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