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Responsive Adjustment of Feed-in Tariffs to Dynamic PV Technology Development
Grau, Thilo - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
This paper reviews the adjustments of the feed-in tariff for new solar photovoltaics (PV) installations in Germany. As PV system prices declined rapidly over the last years, the German government implemented automatic mechanisms to adjust the support level for new installations in response to...
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Banking Competition, Good or Bad?: The Case of Promoting Micro and Small Enterprise Finance in Kazakhstan
Schäfer, Dorothea; Siliverstovs, Boriss; Terberger, Eva - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005
Competition is claimed to be beneficial in development projects promoting micro and small enterprise finance although there are still some doubts whether these loans can be developed into a profitable business. Actually nothing is known about how many MSE banking units optimally should be...
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Informed Capital in a Hostile Environment: The Case of Relational Investors in Germany
Schäfer, Dorothea; Schilder, Dirk - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
Informed capital is a crucial ingredient to a well-functioning market for start-up finance, especially in times of difficult market conditions. For bank-based systems, the question regarding which investors actually supply informed capital has not yet been answered. To fill this gap, we conduct...
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Bank Competition and Firm Growth in the Enlarged European Union
Pellényi, Gábor; Borkó, Tamás - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
We examine the impact of bank competition and institutional factors on net firm entry in a sample of European manufacturing industries over the 1995-2006 period. Taking into account industry differences in the need for external finance, we find that bank competition helps firm entry. In...
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Information Sharing and Cross-border Entry in European Banking
Giannetti, Caterina; Jentzsch, Nicola; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
Information asymmetries can severely limit cross-border border expansion of banks. When a bank enters a new market, it has incomplete information about potential new clients. Such asymmetries are reduced by credit registers, which distribute financial data on bank clients. We investigate the...
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Bank Competition and Firm Growth in the Enlarged European Union
Pellényi, Gábor; Borkó, Tamás - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
We examine the impact of bank competition and institutional factors on net firm entry in a sample of European manufacturing industries over the 1995-2006 period. Taking into account industry differences in the need for external finance, we find that bank competition helps firm entry. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128097
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Why Do Firms Switch Their Main Bank?: Theory and Evidence from Ukraine
Stephan, Andreas; Tsapin, Andriy; Talavera, Oleksandr - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
We examine why firms change their main bank and how this affects loans, interest payments and firm performance after switching. Using unique firm-bank matched Ukrainian data, the treatment effect estimates suggest that more transparent and riskier companies are more likely to switch their main...
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Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation around the World: Evidence from Panel Data
Léger, Andréanne - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
This article contributes to the literature on innovation and development by identifying the determinants of innovation … determinants of innovation to be different for industrialized and developing countries. This is supported by endogeneity tests …
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How Innovative Are Spin-offs at Later Stages of Development?: Comparing Innovativeness of Established Research Spin-offs and Otherwise Created Firms
Lejpras, Anna - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
goal of this study is to investigate whether there are any differences in R&D and innovation behavior between established … engage in R&D and innovation activities more frequently than companies whose genesis was of another type. Nevertheless, the … cooperating in various fields may be of different importance for specific inputs and outputs of the innovation activity. Finally …
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Chinese Renewable Energy Technology Exports: The Role of Policy, Innovation and Markets
Cao, Jing; Groba, Felix - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
in renewable electricity generation as well as increasing renewable energy innovation and foreign knowledge accumulation … innovation effects steaming from both importing countries and China. We use a panel dataset representing annual bilateral trade … evidence that bilateral knowledge transfer and indigenous innovation affect exports. …
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