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The identification of directed technical change revisited
Saam, Marianne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
Technical change that augments capital and labor input in a non-neutral way plays an important role in explaining the relation between growth and other macroeconomic outcomes. Previous research has shown that restricting technical change to be neutral leads to overestimating the elasticity of...
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An integrated assessment model with endogenous growth
Hübler, Michael; Baumstark, Lavinia; Leimbach, Marian; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
We introduce endogenous directed technical change into numerical integrated climate and development policy assessment. We distinguish expenditures on innovation (R&D) and imitation (international technology spillovers) and consider the role of capital investment in creating and implementing new...
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Allocation of human capital and innovation at the frontier: Firm-level evidence on Germany and the Netherlands
Bartelsmann, Eric; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 … performance distributions are more dispersed. In both countries, we observe non-linearities in the productivity effects of …
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Green innovations and organizational change: Making better use of environmental technology
Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of … technologies and that joint adoption leads to higher productivity. Without having introduced complementary organizational … innovations, the adoption of CO2 reducing technologies is associated with lower productivity. …
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Who should pay for certification?
Stahl, Konrad; Strausz, Roland - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
Who does, and who should initiate costly certification by a third party under asymmetric quality information, the buyer or the seller? Our answer - the seller - follows from a nontrivial analysis revealing a clear intuition. Buyer-induced certification acts as an inspection device,...
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Understanding the competitiveness implications of future phases of EU ETS on the industrial sectors
Oberndorfer, Ulrich; Alexeeva-Talebi, Victoria; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
In making key decisions for the future phases of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), policy makers need to fully understand the competitiveness implications of these decisions on industrial sectors. In this paper, we conduct an empirical analysis of cost pass-through ability of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008548756
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Selbständigkeit in Europa 1991 - 2003: Empirische Evidenz mit Länderdaten
Göggel, Kathrin; Gräb, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
In dieser Studie werden ausgewählte makroökonomische Determinanten der Anzahl der Selbständigen in fünfzehn Ländern Europas untersucht. Datenbasis sind die Arbeitskräfteerhebungen der Europäischen Union für die Jahre 1991 ? 2003. Ausgangspunkt der Studie ist der Rückgang der Anzahl der...
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Existenzgründungen: Ein Weg zur Beschäftigungsförderung?
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
In dem vorliegenden Artikel werden ausgewählte theoretische und empirische Aspekte des Zusammenhangs zwischen Existenzgründungen, staatlichem Handeln und Beschäftigung diskutiert. Dabei wird die Frage, ob Existenzgründungen zusätzliche Beschäftigung schaffen überwiegend aus einer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097984
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The Decision of Venture Capitalists on Timing and Extent of IPOs
Tykvová, Tereza - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003
We analyze the venture capitalist's decision on the timing of the IPO, the offer price and the fraction of shares he sells in the course of the IPO. A venture capitalist may decide to take a company public or to liquidate it after one or two financing periods. A longer venture capitalist's...
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Taxation, R&D tax incentives and patent application in Europe
Ernst, Christof; Spengel, Christoph - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
The focus of this paper is on effects from tax incentives for research and development inputs (R&D) and corporate income tax on business R&D and patenting behaviour. First, we provide a theoretical discussion of tax planning with R&D and intellectual property (IP) ownership. Further, we employ...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003573