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manufacturing and services. Using firm-level data from the manufacturing and service sector in Germany and a broad range of ICT …
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It is known that small firms rely mainly on the CEO's individual knowledge for developing innovations. Recent work suggests that this approach is inefficient since it underutilizes other employees' knowledge. We study to which extent using CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees' ideas...
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, the manufacturing sector's energy use and carbon emissions are of crucial importance for reaching Germany's climate goals …
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Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It …
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This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994-2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at the firm-level to a very large extent. Using a dynamic...
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impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S and (3 … covering the period from 1984-2010 for Germany respectively 1992-2011 for the U.S and apply system GMM in order to solve … compensation in both countries. The impact of foreign competition on payperformance sensitivity differs between the US and Germany …
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Voluntary environmental management programs for firms have become an increasingly popular instrument of environmental policy. However, the literature's conclusion on the effectiveness of suchprograms is ambiguous, and for the European region there is a lack of evidence based on a large control...
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We analyze the drivers and barriers that influence investments increasing the energy efficiency of firms' production processes or buildings in the German manufacturing sector based on microdata. In particular, we shed light on the relationship between financial barriers (e. g. credit...
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Increasing energy efficiency is one of the main goals in current German energy and climate policies. We study the determinants of energy efficiency in the German manufacturing sector based on official firm-level production census data. By means of a stochastic frontier analysis, we estimate the...
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Germany taxes electricity use since 1999. The government granted reduced rates to energy intensive firms in the …
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