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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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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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The contribution of international R&D to firm profitability
Peters, Bettina; Schmiele, Anja - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
Innovation Survey (CIS). The empirical results demonstrate that R&D location matters for profitability. Firms with both domestic …
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Age and productivity: evidence from linked employer employee data
Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
In most Western, industrialised countries the workforce is ageing rapidly. In order to assess the possible consequences of an ageing workforce, this paper measures the impact of changes in the age structure of establishments on productivity using representative linked employer-employee panel...
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Integrated Product Policy and Environmental Product Innovations: An Empirical Analysis
Rehfeld, Katharina-Maria; Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
The European Commission has recently stepped up its promotion of the ?Integrated Product Policy?. The objective of the IPP is to support the realisation of environmental product innovations and thus to achieve a broad reduction of all environmental impacts throughout a product?s life cycle....
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097988
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008567612
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University spinoffs and the 'performance premium'
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian; Toole, Andrew A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
The creation of spinoff companies is often promoted as a desirable mechanism for transferring knowledge and technologies from research organizations to the private sector for commercialization. In the promotion process, policymakers typically treat these 'university' spinoffs like industry...
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Minimum wages and competition: The case of the German roofing sector
Kraft, Kornelius; Rammer, Christian; Gottschalk, Sandra - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
This paper analyses the effects of minimum wages on competition in the German roofing sector. The case is particularly interesting since this sector is faced with a uniform minimum wage despite significant regional disparities in productivity and wages. As a control industry we take the plumbing...
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The performance of German firms in the business-related service sectors : a dynamic analysis
van Phu, Nguyen; Kaiser, Ulrich; Laisney, François - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000
We analyze the performance of firms in the German business-related services sector. A quarterly business survey provides the panel data base of our study. Firm performance is measured by the survey respondents? ordinal indication of their changes in total sales. We use a firstorder Markov chain...
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