1. Refereed Journal // 2002

    An Applied Econometrician's View of Empirical Corporate Governance Studies

    The economic analysis of corporate governance is en vogue. In addition to a host of theoretical papers, an increasing number of empirical studies analyze how ownership structure, capital structure, board…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2002

    The Capital-Energy Controversy: An Artifact of Cost Shares?

    Any serious empirical study of factor substitutability has to allow the data to display complementarity as well as substitutability. The standard approach reflecting this idea is a translog specification -- this…

  3. ZEW Economic Studies Vol. 16 // 2002

    Innovation, Employment, and Firm Performance in the German Service Sector

    Empirical and theoretical evidence on the German service sector is inversely related to its growing overall importance for the entire economy. This monograph offers a comprehensive theory-based econometric…