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Export Behavior and Firm Productivity in German Manufacturing: A firm-level analysis

Arnold, Jens Matthias; Hussinger, Katrin - EconWPA - 2004

This paper analyses the relationship between firm productivity and export behavior in German manufacturing firms. We examine whether productivity increases the probability of exporting, and assert that there is a causal relationship from high productivity to entering foreign markets, as...

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Employment Effects of Different Innovation Activities: Microeconometric Evidence

Peters, Bettina - EconWPA - 2005

process innovations, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in Germany …. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations using specific information provided by … confirms that product innovations have a positive impact on employment. In contrast to previous studies, this effect is …

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Vaporware

Levy, Stephan M. - EconWPA - 1995

This essay explores why firms would want to practice vaporware -- the issuance of intentionally false product announcements. In my model, a firm is able to release an upgraded version of its original product. However, consumers do not know the date at which the upgrade will first become...

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Competition and Innovation - Microeconometric Evidence Using Finnish Data

Kilponen, Juha; Santavirta, Torsten - EconWPA - 2005

In this study we provide a theoretical prediction of a complementary relationship between the incentive effects of product market competition and R&D subsidies using the theory of Aghion et. al (1997, 2001). The complementarity relationship and that of an inverted U-relationship is then tested...

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Payment systems efficiency, policy approaches, and the role of the central bank

Khiaonarong, Tanai - EconWPA - 2004

payments system. And third, regulatory and financial innovations, in addition to technological means, are found to be equally …

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INOVATIONS - ENTREPRENEURSHIP - CREDIT in the Theory of J.A. Schumpeter

Kyn, Oldrich - EconWPA - 2005

Short explanation of Schumpeter's concepts of dynamics, innovations and entrepreneurship. It is argued, that …

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Understanding Patents: The Role of R&D Funding Sources and the Patent Office

Sanyal, Paroma - EconWPA - 2005

This paper analyzes the effects of different sources of R&D funding and patent office attributes on the patenting process. Another important contribution is modeling the effect of a random delay in the ‘pendency’ time as a stochastic process and quantifying its effect on patenting. The...

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Leading Indicators of Euroland Business Cycles

Fritsche, Ulrich; Marklein, Felix - EconWPA - 2001

The introduction of a common monetary policy in eleven European countries increased the need for leading indicators for that area. A reliable leading indicator should possess the following properties: (1) The movements in the indicator series should resemble those in the business cycle reference...

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Do probit models help in forecasting turning points of German business cycles?

Fritsche, Ulrich - EconWPA - 2001

In this paper we used a data set constructed for a companion paper (Fritsche/Stephan, 2000) where we explored the leading indicator properties of different time series for the German business cycle. Now we test for the ability of different indicator series to forecast recessions by using a...

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Managerial and Customer Costs of Price Adjustment: Direct Evidence from Industrial Markets

Zbaracki, Mark; Ritson, Mark; Levy, Daniel; Dutta, Shantanu - EconWPA - 2004

We study the price adjustment practices and provide quantitative measurement of the managerial and customer costs of price adjustment using data from a large U.S. industrial manufacturer and its customers. We find that price adjustment costs are a much more complex construct than the existing...

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