Alexander Schiersch
Biographic Data
| ID | 4619394 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Schiersch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Schiersch |
| SIGNATURE | SCHIERSCH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | German Institute for Economic Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7618-5804 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Broadband and productivity
Agglomeration economies
We study the impact of agglomeration effects on firms’ total factor productivity (TFP) for industry groups defined by technology intensity. This allows for non-uniform effects on firms depending on their technological level. We find that urban economies have the largest impact on firm productivity in high-technology industries, while they have no effect in low-technology industries. For firms in the latter industries, the diversity of the local e…
The productivity shock in business services
In Germany, the productivity of professional services, a sector dominated by SME, declined by 40 percent between 1995 and 2014. Similar developments can be observed in several other European economies. Using a German dataset with 700,000 firm-level observations, we analyze this largely undiscovered phenomenon in professional services, the fourth largest sector of the business economy in the EU-15, which provides important inputs to the economy an…
Firm size and efficiency in the German mechanical engineering industry
Agglomeration economies
We study the impact of agglomeration effects on firms’ total factor productivity (TFP) for industry groups defined by technology intensity. This allows for non-uniform effects on firms depending on their technological level. We find that urban economies have the largest impact on firm productivity in high-technology industries, while they have no effect in low-technology industries. For firms in the latter industries, the diversity of the local e…
Firm size and efficiency in the German mechanical engineering industry
The productivity shock in business services
In Germany, the productivity of professional services, a sector dominated by SME, declined by 40 percent between 1995 and 2014. Similar developments can be observed in several other European economies. Using a German dataset with 700,000 firm-level observations, we analyze this largely undiscovered phenomenon in professional services, the fourth largest sector of the business economy in the EU-15, which provides important inputs to the economy an…
Agglomeration economies
We study the impact of agglomeration effects on firms’ total factor productivity (TFP) for industry groups defined by technology intensity. This allows for non-uniform effects on firms depending on their technological level. We find that urban economies have the largest impact on firm productivity in high-technology industries, while they have no effect in low-technology industries. For firms in the latter industries, the diversity of the local e…
Broadband and productivity
Business (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Macroeconomics (3 works) · Productivity (3 works) · Entrepreneurship (2 works) · Finance (2 works) · Firm Innovation and Growth (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · German (2 works) · Global trade and economics (2 works)