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Policy-induced environmental technology and incentive efforts: Is there a crowding out?

Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

innovation is a crucial productivity driver, a potential crowding out of inventive efforts could increase the cost of mitigating …. However, we do not find negative effects on the number of ongoing R&D projects, investments in innovation-related fixed assets … or on the outcome of innovation projects. Likewise, for firms with subsidy-backed environmental innovations no crowding …

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Welche Regionen profitieren von Venture Capital-Aktivitäten?

Engel, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

-Aktivitäten profitieren können. Dies deckt sich mit den Ergebnissen zahlreicher Studien für die USA und Großbritannien. Bemerkenswert ist …

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Stimuliert der BioRegio-Wettbewerb die Bildung von Biotechnologieclustern in Deutschland?

Engel, Dirk; Heneric, Oliver - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

Regions with biotechnology-specific knowledge seem to have best chances to attract potential entrepreneurs to establish a biotechnology-firm. Furthermore, regional oriented technology policy is supposed to stimulate the creation process of biotechnology clusters, too. The BioRegio contest (BRC)...

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Screening instruments for monitoring market power in wholesale electricity markets: Lessons from applications in Germany

Bataille, Marc; Steinmetz, Alexander; Thorwarth, Susanne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

While liberalization in energy markets has been a widely successful process all over the world, incumbents often still hold a dominant position. Thus, electricity wholesale markets are subject to market surveillance. Nevertheless, consolidated findings on abusive practices of market power and...

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Re-assessing the merits of measuring tax evasions through surveys: Evidence from Serbian firms

Kundt, Thorben C.; Misch, Florian; Nerré, Birger - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

This paper addresses the major weakness of measuring tax evasion through business and household surveys, namely the reluctance of respondents to answer truthfully due to the threat of disclosure. First, we assess the merits of a novel questioning method to gather information about tax evasion by...

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Wie kann die durchschnittliche Ausbildungsquote in Deutschland korrekt gemessen werden?

Jacobebbinghaus, Peter; Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

). In addition the deviation from the yearly mean differs between occupations at certain measurement dates because … shares instead of certain measurement dates. It also argues to use daily accurate employment data from the German social …

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End-of-Pipe or Cleaner Production? An Empirical Comparison of Environmental Innovation Decisions Across OECD Countries

Frondel, Manuel; Horbach, Jens; Rennings, Klaus - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

While both fundamental types of abatement measures mitigate the adverse environmental impacts of production, cleaner production technologies are frequently more advantageous than end-of-pipe technologies for environmental and economic reasons. This paper analyzes a variety of factors that might...

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Dynamic Optimal Capital Structure and Technological Change

Lööf, Hans - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

This paper incorporates the cost of adjustment between observed and optimal leverage in explaining the variation in firm?s equity or bank-debt financing investments. Using a dynamic adjustment approach identifies the determinants to capital structure between different financial systems. In...

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The Demand of Heterogeneous Labour in Germany

Falk, Martin; Koebel, Bertrand M. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1997

In this paper, four commonly provided explanations for the shift in labour demand for different skill groups are investigated: the substitutability of inputs; the own-price sensitivity for different types of labour; the effect of economic growth and the impact of technological change. In...

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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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