Social media open up new possibilities for firms to exploit information from various external sources. Does this information help firms to become more innovative? Combining firm-level survey data with…
Im September 2016 konnte das Reallabor Asylsuchende im Rhein-Neckar-Kreis in zwei Gemeinschaftsunterkünften eine Befragung bei Geflüchteten durchführen. Insgesamt nahmen 370 Personen an der Befragung teil,…
We investigate the effect of international differences in corporate taxation on the realization of productivity gains in M&A deals. We argue that tax differentials distort the efficient allocation of productive…
Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings
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2017
In this paper, we analyse the disaggregated pattern of German software firm locations. We utilise a comprehensive data set of three million street level geocoded firm obser-vations in Germany as well as detailed…
Social media applications such as wikis, blogs or social networks are being increasingly applied in firms. These applications can be used for external communication and internal knowledge management. Firms can…
Highlights • A semiparametric generalized partially linear model with a misclassified covariate is proposed. • Validation data is used to address misclassification and missing values. • The model is applied…
