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International Cooperation on Innovation: Empirical Evidence for German and Portuguese Firms
Faria, Pedro; Schmidt, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
innovation activities. Portuguese and German data from the harmonised Community Innovation Survey (CIS III) allow us to compare … innovation cooperation behaviour of private firms in the two countries. Using a bivariate probit model, we show that the … cooperate with foreign partners than non-exporters, whereas in Portugal this is not the case. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098236
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Productivity, Growth, and Internationalisation: The Case of German and British High Techs
Fryges, Helmut - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
International engagement is often expected to improve firm performance. Especially for small technology-oriented firms, export activities may be important, being regarded as one way to amortise these firms? high product research and development costs. This paper examines the relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097824
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Firm Level Implications of Early Stage Venture Capital Investment: An Empirical Investigation
Keilbach, Max; Engel, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002
The paper analyses the impact of venture capital finance on growth and innovation activities of young German firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098256
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Once bitten, twice shy? The performance of entrepreneurial restarts
Metzger, Georg - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of entrepreneurial experience on firm growth. According to the human capital theory, individuals who have higher ?human capital? are more successful than others. Entrepreneurial experience is a kind of human capital and, therefore, should affect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098295
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Ownership concentration, institutional development and firm performance in Central and Eastern Europe
Balsmeier, Benjamin; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
This paper analyzes the relationship of ownership concentration and firm performance in the context of different institutional environments in 28 Central and Eastern European transition economies. Using the BEEPS data for the period from 2002 to 2009 we find an inverted u-shaped relation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794610
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An international cohort comparison of size effects on job growth
Anyadike-Danes, Michael; Bjuggren, Carl-Magnus; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
The contribution of different-sized businesses to job creation continues to attract policymakers' attention, however, it has recently been recognized that conclusions about size were confounded with the effect of age. We probe the role of size, controlling for age, by comparing the cohorts of...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957745
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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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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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