This paper investigates the long-term trend and the underlying determinants of public sector centralization in Germany from 1871 until today. The institutional and the quantitative review of the German history…
This paper uses student-level TIMSS data to analyze the determinants of schooling quality for seven Eastern European transition countries by estimating educational production functions. The results show…
In order to assess the productivity effects of information and communication technologies (ICT), regressions based on cross-sectional firm-level data may yield unreliable results for the commonly employed…
In this paper, it is argued that investment in information and communication technologies (ICT) are closely linked to complementary innovations and are most productive in firms with experience from earlier…
