This paper analyses the effects of minimum wages on competition in the German roofing sector. The case is particularly … competition for this group of firms and helped them to increase profitability. The increasing share of sole traders may indicate … wage. In the western part of the country minimum wages had no impact on competition. …

market (innovation). It turns out that spillovers from rivals lead to more imitation, while inputs from customers and … research institutions enhance original innovation. …

We investigate the effect of profit-sharing on product and process innovation. Profit-sharing is a credible commitment … that the introduction of profit-sharing only spurs product innovation. …

innovation, i.e. weakly controlled managers show a higher innovation propensity. However, the higher the leverage the more …

Knowledge spillovers to competitors are regarded as an important aspect of the innovation process. While a company …

This paper discusses the incentives for innovation when liability is limited or not. Clearly innovative activity …

firms and we use a number of control variables including measures of competition and firm leadership. It turns out that the …

In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … using data from the 1997 wave of the Mannheim Innovation Panel in the Service Sector. There is a lot of support for the … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only …

variables the motives for innovation expenditures are also taken into account. We differentiate between firms which intend to …