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The performance of German firms in the business-related service sectors : a dynamic analysis

van Phu, Nguyen; Kaiser, Ulrich; Laisney, François - 2000

We analyze the performance of firms in the German business-related services sector. A quarterly business survey provides the panel data base of our study. Firm performance is measured by the survey respondents? ordinal indication of their changes in total sales. We use a firstorder Markov chain...

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Uncertainty of outcome versus reputation: empirical evidence for the First German Football Division

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Stadtmann, Georg - 1999

This paper analyses the determination of match attendance in the German premier football league by applying models derived from Peel/Thomas (1992) and Janssens/Késenne (1987). Additionally we develop an improved version, where we incorporate the supporter clubs and the weather conditions as...

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The behaviour of noise traders: empirical evidence on purchases of business magazines

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Stadtmann, Georg - 2000

, demand for financial advise should be high in a bull market and low in a bear market. Thus, we test the hypothesis whether … the demand for business magazines is somehow related to the performance of the stock market. It turns out that the sales …

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The effects of website provision on the demand for German women's magazines

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2001

What happens to demand if a magazine launches a website? This question is empirically analyzed for the German women … differentiated product demand are estimated on panel data covering the period 1990 to 2000, showing that website provision does not … demand than competitors that did not go online. Descriptive evidence on the magazines? website contents shows that websites …

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Optimal Cover Prices and the Effects of Website Provision on Advertising and Magazine Demand

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2002

demand curves: the demand for the print medium and the demand for advertising space. Publicly available data on German women …?s magazines observed between 1998 and 2001 are used in the GMM estimation. Main findings are that my estimated marginals cost … coincide well with those of industry sources, magazines with a high circulation elasticity of advertising demand price markedly …

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Application of a simple nonparametric conditional quantile function estimator in unemployment duration analysis

Wichert, Laura; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2005

estimate aggregate credit supply and demand functions including a stock market indicator as explanatory variable. The analysis …

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Imposing and testing curvature conditions on a Box-Cox function

Koebel, Bertrand M.; Falk, Martin; Laisney, François - 2000

We present a new method for imposing and testing concavity of a cost function using asymptotic least squares, which can easily be implemented even for cost functions which are nonlinear in parameters. We provide an illustration on the basis of a (generalized) Box-Cox cost function with six...

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The Returns to Continuous Training in Germany: New Evidence from Propensity Score Matching Estimators

Muehler, Grit; Beckmann, Michael; Schauenberg, Bernd - 2007

The present paper examines the wage effects of continuous training programs using individual-level data from the German Socio Economic Panel (GSOEP). In order to account for selectivity in training participation we estimate average treatment effects (ATE and ATT) of general and firm-specific...

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Application of a simple nonparametric conditional quantile function estimator in unemployment duration analysis

Wilke, Ralf A.; Wichert, Laura - 2005

We consider an extension of conventional univariate Kaplan-Meier type estimators for the hazard rate and the survivor function to multivariate censored data with a censored random regressor. It is an Akritas (1994) type estimator which adapts the nonparametric conditional hazard rate estimator...

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Map Intersection Based Merging Schemes for Administrative Data Sources and an Application to Germany

Arntz, Melanie; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2005

In many situations the applied researcher wants to combine different data sources without knowing the exact link and merging rule. This paper introduces a theoretical framework how two different regional administrative data sources can be merged. It presents different merging schemes based on...

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