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Intra- und intergenerationale Umverteilungseffekte in der bundesdeutschen Alterssicherung auf Basis humankapital - theoretischer Überlegungen
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
In der folgenden Studie möchten wir ausgewählte Aspekte von intra- und intergenerationalen Umverteilungseffekten im System der bundesdeutschen Alterssicherung auf der Basis der Humankapitalheorie mit Simulationsmethoden analysieren. Falls es das Ziel der Politik ist, die Ungleichheit des...
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Ungleichheit und die differentiellen Erträge frühkindlicher Bildungsinvestitionen im Lebenszyklus
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
, im Lebenszyklus die Kosten um ein Vielfaches. Die Abschätzungen deuten darauf hin, dass die ertragreichste Politik zur …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098105
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Entry and shakeout in dynamic oligopoly
Hünermund, Paul; Schmidt-Dengler, Philipp; Takahashi, Yuya - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
In many industries, the number of firms evolves non-monotonically over time. A phase of rapid entry is followed by an industry shakeout: a large number of firms exit within a short period. We present a simple timing game of entry and exit with an exogenous technological process governing firm...
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Building and Blocking: The Two Faces of Technology Acquisition
Grimpe, Christoph; Hussinger, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
acquisitions. On the one hand, patents are used as a building instrument for the acquirer's technology portfolio. On the other hand …-based view of the firm, we analyze the importance of these two faces of technology acquisition for the valuation of a target firm …'s patents, especially if blocking patents are in technology fields related to the acquiring firm's patent portfolio. Our results …
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Firm Acquisitions and Technology Strategy: Corporate versus Private Equity Investors
Hussinger, Katrin; Grimpe, Christoph - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
value of patents and their potential to block competitors in technology markets. Our empirical results for European firm … firms with valuable patents. However, patents with a potential to block technology competitors seem to be only of interest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098177
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Building and Blocking: The Two Faces of Technology Acquisition
Grimpe, Christoph; Hussinger, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
acquisitions. On the one hand, patents are used as a building instrument for the acquirer's technology portfolio. On the other hand …-based view of the firm, we analyze the importance of these two faces of technology acquisition for the valuation of a target firm … blocking patents are in technology fields related to the acquiring firm's patent portfolio. Our results have implications for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098183
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Environmental taxation and structural change in an open economy: a CGE analysis with imperfect competition and free entry
Böhringer, Christoph; Welsch, Heinz; Löschel, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001
The economic effects of environmental taxes depend on the market structure. Under imperfect competition with free entry and exit, environmental taxes have an impact on economies of scale by changing the number and size of firms. Whether economies of scale rise or fall in a particular industry...
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Intermediate input markets, ICT and innovation in Germany: A firm level analysis
Cerquera, Daniel; Klein, Gordon J. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
This paper studies the impact of the adoption of ICT on the economic performance at the firm level, considering explicitly the interaction of adopting firms within the intermediate input market in Germany. The paper identifies and quantifies the importance of adoption externalities and knowledge...
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The impact on innovation off-shoring on organizational adaptability
Baier, Elisabeth; Rammer, Christian; Schuber, Torben - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
We analyze the effects of captive off-shoring of innovation activities on the firms' ability to adapt their … organizational processes and structures. Starting from complexity theory, we use three consecutive waves of the German part of the … Community Innovation Survey to test our hypotheses. We find an inverted u-shape of innovation off-shoring on the effectiveness …
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Do trademarks diminish the substitutability of products in innovative knowledge-intensive services?
Crass, Dirk; Schwiebacher, Franz - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
Trademarks are often supposed to reduce substitutability and imitability of product innovations. Using German CIS data for 2010, we provide empirical evidence that trademarking firms assess easy product substitutability as less characteristic for their competitive environment. This is...
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