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Internationalisation of high-tech start-ups and fast growth-evidence for UK and Germany
Bürgel, Oliver; Fier, Andreas; Licht, Georg; Murray, … - 2000
For firms acting in technological niches the expansion into foreign markets can be a way to increase sales and to thus to recover initial sunk costs over a shorter time frame. Our research, based on survey data for nearly 600 British and German high-tech start-ups, examines whether...
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The shadow of death : an empirical analysis of the pre-exit performance of young German firms
Almus, Matthias - 2000
This paper makes an empirical contribution to confirm the stylized fact that the performance of firms deteoriates in the years before exit. For this reason we evaluate whether market exits differ significantly in their employment development in the years before market drop-out compared to...
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Die Auswirkungen öffentlicher Gründungsförderung auf das Überleben und Wachstum junger Unternehmen
Almus, Matthias; Prantl, Susanne - 2001
Unternehmensentwicklung haben oder ob beobachtbare Unterschiede zwischen geförderten und nicht geförderten Unternehmen vor allem auf die … causal effects a statistical matching procedure is used to draw an adequate control group from the pool of all available … control firms for comparison with the treatment group of assisted firms. The empirical analysis shows significant positive …
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Evaluating the impact of public start-up assistance : results from an econometric approach
Almus, Matthias - 2001
This paper analyzes the medium-term growth performance of firms that exclusively received start-up assistance from programs administered by the Deutsche Ausgleichsbank (DtA), a state owned bank, within two years after startup. I apply a parametric selection approach that controls for two...
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Open source, ICT infrastructure and firm performance
Cerquera, Daniel; Müller, Bettina - 2009
This paper empirically studies the impact of the adoption of open source software (OSS) on firms' labor productivity and innovative behavior. Using a representative sample of German firms, the results show that the adoption of OSS operating systems for servers and general OSS applications has no...
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Dynamic R&D choice and the impact of the firm's financial strength
Peters, Bettina; Roberts, Mark J.; Vuong, Van Anh - 2015
This article investigates how a firm's financial strength affcts its dynamic decision to invest in R&D. We estimate a dynamic model of R&D choice using data for German firms in high-tech manufacturing industries. The model incorporates a measure of the firm's financial strength, derived from its...
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Does Wikipedia matter? : the effect of Wikipedia on tourist choices
Hinnosaar, Marit; Hinnosaar, Toomas; Kummer, Michael E.; … - 2015
We analyze the impact of information on Wikipedia on tourists' choices for travel destinations. Our results suggest a strong observational correlation between the amount of content on Wikipedia and tourist overnight stays. We propose a check of whether this correlation is causal. For that, we...
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Economic downturn and volunteering : do economic crises affect content generation on Wikipedia?
Kummer, Michael E.; Slivko, Olga; Zhang, Michael - 2015
In this paper, we address the impact of surging unemployment on online public good provision. Specifically, we ask how drastically increased unemployment affects voluntary contributions of content to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. We put together a monthly country-level data set, which...
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Spillovers in networks of user generated content : evidence from 23 natural experiments on Wikipedia
Kummer, Michael E. - 2013
Endogeneity in network formation hinders the identification of the role social networks play in generating spillovers, peer effects and other externalities. This paper tackles this problem and investigates how the link network between articles on the German Wikipedia influences the attention and...
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Spillovers in networks of user generated content : pseudo-experimental evidence on Wikipedia
Kummer, Michael E. - 2014
I quantify spillovers of attention in a network of content pages, which is challenging, because such networks form endogenously. I exploit exogenous variation in the article network of German Wikipedia to circumvent this problem. Wikipedia prominently advertises one featured article on its main...
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