incomes in the east have now reached the western level, and investment per capita has been much higher than in the west …. However, every third deutschmark spent in the east has been coming from the west, investment in equipment has fallen below the … west Germany. Excessively high wages coupled with investment incentives that made the cost of capital negative rank high …

This paper examines whether there are complementarities between investments in ICT, R&D and organizational innovation …, and the effects of different investment profiles on total factor productivity growth on Dutch firm-level data. We estimate … an integrated model of investment profile adoption and total factor productivity growth. We find that the three …

-term performance. We investigate 495 transactions with a focus on one form of long-term activities, namely investments in innovation as …

Abstract U.S. firms have reduced their investment in scientific research ("R") compared to product development ("D …"), raising questions about the returns to each type of investment, and about the reasons for this shift. We use Census data that … disaggregates "R" from "D" to study how US firms adjust their innovation investments in response to an external increase in funding …

U.S. R&D investment are based on the assumption that only the government …quantity of, private investment in 'signaling' R&D, we estimate variants …

investment demands and the elasticities are highly inelastic. The effect is stronger for P&E than for R&D capital in the long run …, while the effects on P&E and R&D investment are quite similar in the short run …