Summary This paper examines the influence of monetary policy on market interest rates by testing for Granger-causality between the rates for interest rate tender and the interbank call money rates and the bond-market rates respectively. The direkt Granger test and a modified Hsiao test are used...

New public policy enacted in Germany in 2002, intends to increase the number of patent registrations of academic entrepreneurs, and facilitate the commercialization and spillover of innovation generated at public universities. Results from a survey amongst university patentees in two new German...