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So similar and yet so different : a comparative analysis of a firm's cost and benefits of apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland
Moretti, Luca; Mayerl, Martin; Mühlemann, Samuel; … - 2017
The authors compare a firm's costs and benefits of providing apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland, using … pay in Austria, which in turn is associated with collective bargaining agreements and competition with alternative school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011743102
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Incentive pay and bank risk-taking : evidence from Austrian, German, and Swiss banks
Efing, Matthias; Hau, Harald; Kampkötter, Patrick; … - 2014
We use payroll data on 1.2 million bank employee years in the Austrian, German, and Swiss banking sector to identify incentive pay in the critical banking segments of treasury/capital market management and investment banking for 66 banks. We document an economically significant correlation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412865
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Uncertainty and change : survey evidence of firms' subjective beliefs
Bachmann, Ruediger; Carstensen, Kai; Lautenbacher, Stefan; … - 2021
This paper studies how managers plan under uncertainty. In a new survey panel on German manufacturing firms, we show that uncertainty reflects change: Planning incorporates higher subjective uncertainty about future sales growth when the firm has just experienced unusual growth, and more so if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012668288
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The effect of dispatch methods on a recruiting campaign for a business survey : evidence from Germany
Brandt, Przemyslaw; Demmelhuber, Katrin; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2020
The ifo Institute for Economic Research has been conducting the ifo business survey since its foundation in 1949. To ensure stability of participation rates, regular sample recruitment is indispensable. Does the dispatch method matter for response rates of a recruiting campaign? To answer this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249212
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Wind of change? : experimental survey evidence on the COVID-19 shock and socio-political attitudes in Europe
Daniele, Gianmarco; Martinangeli, Andrea F. M.; … - 2020
well as our broader (policy) attitudes and values. We fielded large online survey experiments in Italy, Spain, Germany and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012263741
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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 data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014309600
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Wars and markets : how bond values reflect World War II
Frey, Bruno S.; Kucher, Marcel - 1999
Historical events are reflected in asset prices. In this paper, we analyse government bond prices of Germany and … Austria traded on the Swiss bourse during WWII. Some war events that are generally considered crucial are clearly reflected in … is Germany's capitulation in 1945. The analysis of financial markets provides a fruitful method to evaluate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781716
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Firms' moral hazard in sickness absences
Böheim, René; Leoni, Thomas - 2011
change that took place in Austria in 2000. In September 2000, an insurance fund that refunded firms for the costs of their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307962
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Processing immigration shocks : firm responses on the innovation margin
Gray, Rowena; Montresor, Giulia; Wright, Greg C. - 2017
The extent to which firms respond to labor supply shocks has important implications for local and national economies. We exploit firm-level panel data on product and process innovation activities in the United Kingdom and find that the large, low-skill labor supply (immigration) shock generated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011718191
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What do we know about recent exchange rate models? : in-sample fit and out-of-sample performance evaluated
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Chinn, Menzie David; Pascual, Antonio … - 2003
Previous assessments of nominal exchange rate determination have focused upon a narrow set of models typically of the 1970 s vintage, including monetary and portfolio balance models. In this paper we re-assess the in-sample fit and out-of-sample prediction of a wider set of models that have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507659