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German municipalities are expected to suffer from (often significant) population losses in the upcoming decades. We assess these local governments? vulnerability to the fiscal consequences of this demographic decline through two means (using a sample of 1021 municipalities in the state of...
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Financial markets in Europe become more and more integrated. The persisting fragmentation of financial supervision, however, constitutes a lasting obstacle to integration. The aim of this paper is to assess these costs of supervisory fragmentation. We find clear evidence for the existence of...
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Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges in current environmental policy. Appropriate policies intended to stimulate efficient adaptation and mitigation should not exclusively rely on the assumption of the homo oeconomicus, but take advantage of well-researched alternative...
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project. We find further indication that the performance effect of breadth increases with commercial uncertainty. It is also …
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This paper analyzes decisions on emissions of a stock pollutant under uncertainty in a two period model. Decisions are …
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This paper investigates how competition and firm size affect the relationship between market uncertainty and R …&D investment. We use an intuitively appealing measure of firm-specific uncertainty along with panel data to show that firms invest … less in current R&D as uncertainty about market returns increases. The effect of firm-specific uncertainty on R …
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The real options investment theory shows that greater uncertainty about market revenues reduces current R&D investment … market uncertainty on R&D investment. …
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The theoretical discussion concerning the question whether the incumbent or the (potential) entrant invests more into R&D has attracted considerable interest. This paper reports the results of an empirical study on this question using data of about 3500 German firms over the years 1992 to 1995....
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imperfections. Drawing on the theory of investment under uncertainty, this paper argues that public R&D subsidies increase business … R&D investment through an additional mechanism – mitigating the effects of market uncertainty on R&D investment in … markets for new products. Using a sample of German manufacturing firms, we show that market uncertainty indeed reduces R …
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Real options investment theory predicts current investment falls as uncertainty about market returns increases. In the … pronounced. This paper tests the real options prediction about the R&D investment-uncertainty relationship and further considers … mitigate firm-specific uncertainty and stimulate current R&D investment. Our empirical results support both the prediction of …
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