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The Signaling Role of Corporate Social Responsibility
Blumkin, Tomer; Margalioth, Yoram; Sharoni, Adi - CESifo - 2014
We examine the role of CSR as a mechanism for private provision of public goods. We argue that corporations are using CSR to signal high product quality and demonstrate that signaling gives rise to an excessive level of contributions that offsets the positive externality, which causes the...
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Corporate Philanthropy and Productivity: Evidence from an Online Real Effort Experiment
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - CESifo - 2014
Contributing to a social cause can be an important driver for workers in the public and non-profit sector as well as in firms that engage in Corporate Philanthropy or other Corporate Social Responsibility policies. This paper compares the effectiveness of social incentives - that take the form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764293
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How Do Judgmental Overconfidence and Overoptimism Shape Innovative Activity?
Herz, Holger; Schunk, Daniel; Zehnder, Christian - CESifo - 2013
that the connection between overconfidence and innovation is more complex than the previous literature suggests. In … innovative activity. While overoptimism leads to an innovation enhancing effect, judgmental overconfidence inhibits innovation …. Our results indicate that future research is well advised to take into account that the relationship between innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877694
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Creative Destruction and Productive Preemption
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - CESifo - 2013
We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877893
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Demography and Innovative Entrepreneurship
Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - CESifo - 2007
Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual’s decision to start a business is determined by his...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094224
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Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - CESifo - 2015
Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This … attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257678
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Strategic Approaches to CO2 Emissions - The Case of the Cement Industry and of the Chemical Industry
Arjaliès, Diane Laure; Goubet, Cécile; Ponssard, … - CESifo - 2014
The ability of companies to turn an environmental constraint into a source of strategic opportunities is a controversial topic in published research. The article, which is based on a comparative study of the CO2 emission reduction strategies implemented by the cement and chemical industries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877636
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Bush Meets Hotelling: Effects of Improved Renewable Energy Technology on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Hoel, Michael - CESifo - 2008
Fossil fuels are non-renewable carbon resources, and the extraction path of these resources depends both on present and future demand. When this "Hotelling feature" is taken into consideration, the whole price path of carbon fuel will shift downwards as a response to the reduced cost of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765659
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Environmental and Technology Policy Options in the Electricity Sector: Interactions and Outcomes
Fischer, Carolyn; Newell, Richard G.; Preonas, Louis - CESifo - 2014
renewable sources, and encourage energy conservation. To what extent do innovation and energy efficiency (EE) market failures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764280
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The Supply Side of CO2 with Country Heterogeneity
Hoel, Michael - CESifo - 2011
Several recent articles have analyzed climate policy giving explicit attention to the non-renewable character of carbon resources. In most of this literature the economy is treated as a single unit, which in the context of climate policy seems reasonable to interpret as the whole world. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008914283