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Intellectual property infringements due to R&D abroad? A comparative analysis between firms with international and domestic R&D activities
Schmiele, Anja - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
This paper aims at analysing the risk of intellectual property (IP) infringements by competitors from abroad and in particular whether this risk is higher for international innovating firms. We distinguish three different types of IP infringements from abroad: the usage of firms' technical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794606
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FDI and Taxation: A Meta-Study
Feld, Lars P.; Heckemeyer, Jost Henrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
Despite the continuing political interest in the usefulness of tax competition and tax coordination as well as the wealth of theoretical analyses, it still remains open whether or when tax competition is harmful. Moreover, the influence of tax differentials on multinationals' decisions is still...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097490
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Exports versus FDI in German Manufacturing: Firm Performance and Participation in International Markets
Arnold, Jens Matthias; Hussinger, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
This paper tests some of the predictions of recent advances in trade theory that have focused on different trade patterns of firms within the same sector. Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple (2005) develop a model in which innate productivity differences between firms determine the degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097979
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The Effects of Multinationals? Profit Shifting Activities on Real Investments
Overesch, Michael - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
This paper investigates whether the size of multinationals? real investments in a high-tax country is affected by profit shifting activities. A simple theoretical analysis shows that tax rates abroad impact the cost of capital in the presence of profit shifting activities of multinational...
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Does exchange of information between tax authorities influence multinationals' use of tax havens?
Braun, Julia; Weichenrieder, Alfons - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015
Since the mid-1990s, countries offering tax systems that facilitate international tax avoidance and evasion have been facing growing political pressure to comply with the internationally agreed standards of exchange of tax information. Using data of German investments in tax havens, we find...
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Why challenge the ivory tower? New evidence on the basicness of academic patents
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hussinger, Katrin; Schneider, Cédric - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
While often presumed in academic literature and policy discussions there is little empirical evidence showing that academic patents protect more basic inventions than corporate patents. This study provides new evidence on the basicness of academic patents using German professor patents linked to...
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The nexus between science and industry: evidence from faculty inventions
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hussinger, Katrin; Schneider, Cédric - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
Against the background of the so-called European paradox, i.e. the conjecture that EU countries lack the capability to transfer science into commercial innovations, knowledge transfer from academia to industry has been a central issue in policy debates recently. Based on a sample of German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098099
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To Be Financed or Not…: The Role of Patents for Venture Capital Financing
Mueller, Elisabeth; Harhoff, Dietmar; Haeussler, Carolin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncertainty and therefore rely on patents as signals when trying to assess the prospects of...
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Which firms use trademarks - and why? Representative firm-level evidence from Germany
Crass, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
Trademarking firms are more productive, generate higher profits, and have a better survival rate. Trademarking firms are in one word more successful, which might motivate non-trademarking firms to adopt a trademark strategy. But this seems not to be the case. The proportion of trademarking firms...
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Building and Blocking: The Two Faces of Technology Acquisition
Grimpe, Christoph; Hussinger, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
acquisitions. On the one hand, patents are used as a building instrument for the acquirer's technology portfolio. On the other hand …-based view of the firm, we analyze the importance of these two faces of technology acquisition for the valuation of a target firm …'s patents, especially if blocking patents are in technology fields related to the acquiring firm's patent portfolio. Our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097577