TY - UNPB

T1 - The Quality of the KombiFiD-Sample of Business Services Enterprises

T2 - Evidence from a Replication Study

AU - Wagner, Joachim

AU - Vogel, Alexander

PY - 2012/1

Y1 - 2012/1

N2 - This study tests whether the KombiFiD sample can be regarded as a high quality data set for empirical research on enterprises from business services industries. It performs an empirical investigation using the original data in a first step and replicates exactly this investigation using the KombiFiD sample in a second step. We find that large business services firms are oversampled in the KombiFiD agreement sample which leads to a higher share of exportingbusiness services firms compared to the original data. After controlling for firm size and industries results based on the original data and on the KombiFiD sample are highly similar for West German firms. Therefore, the KombiFiD sample can be regarded as a sound base for empirical studies on West German firms from business services industries. For East Germany, however, the number of business services firms seems to be too small for empirical analyses, at least in the field of firm’s export participation.

AB - This study tests whether the KombiFiD sample can be regarded as a high quality data set for empirical research on enterprises from business services industries. It performs an empirical investigation using the original data in a first step and replicates exactly this investigation using the KombiFiD sample in a second step. We find that large business services firms are oversampled in the KombiFiD agreement sample which leads to a higher share of exportingbusiness services firms compared to the original data. After controlling for firm size and industries results based on the original data and on the KombiFiD sample are highly similar for West German firms. Therefore, the KombiFiD sample can be regarded as a sound base for empirical studies on West German firms from business services industries. For East Germany, however, the number of business services firms seems to be too small for empirical analyses, at least in the field of firm’s export participation.

KW - Economics, empirical/statistics

KW - KombiFiD

KW - Germany

KW - business services firms

M3 - Working papers

T3 - Working Paper Series in Economics

BT - The Quality of the KombiFiD-Sample of Business Services Enterprises

PB - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg

CY - Lüneburg

ER -