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Hidden champions - how young and small technology-oriented firms can attain high export-sales ratios
Fryges, Helmut - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
Determinants of a firm?s export-sales ratio (degree of internationalisation) are frequently discussed in the literature related to individual firms? export activities. Stylised facts show a positive relationship between firm size and firm age on the one hand and the firm?s export-sales ratio on...
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The Export-Growth Relationship: Estimating a Dose-Response Function
Fryges, Helmut - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
The relationship between individual firms? export behaviour and firm performance has been studied extensively in the economic literature. However, most studies from the field of economics only distinguish between exporting and non-exporting companies, using the firms? export status as a binary...
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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...
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The Change of Sales Modes in International Markets: Empirical Results for German and British High-Tech Firms
Fryges, Helmut - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
The choice of the appropriate sales mode belongs to the firm?s most important strategic decisions after entering into a foreign market. Thus, it is important that the selected foreign sales mode best suits a firm?s available resources and capabilities. However, these resources and capabilities...
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Blockholdings and corporate governance in the EU banking sector
Köhler, Matthias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
Ownership structures widely differ across the EU. While large blockholdings dominate in the banking sector in Continental Europe, ownership is widely dispersed in the United Kingdom. These differences have consequences for corporate governance in the EU banking sector. This paper analyzes the...
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Blockholdings and Corporate Governance in the EU Banking Sector
Köhler, Matthias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
Ownership structures widely differ across the EU. While large blockholdings dominate in the banking sector in Continental Europe, ownership is widely dispersed in the United Kingdom. These differences have consequences for corporate governance in the EU banking sector. This paper analyzes the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098047
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Understanding the effects of violent video games on violent crime
Cunningham, A. Scott; Engelstätter, Benjamin; Ward, … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
Psychological studies invariably find a positive relationship between violent video game play and aggression. However, these studies cannot account for either aggressive effects of alternative activities video game playing substitutes for or the possible selection of relatively violent people...
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Mobile network interconnection and investments
Veith, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
Abstract In markets with competing interconnected networks like mobile telecommunication markets investments affect the investor’s and also any competitors’ profits. In a theoretical model it is shown that cost-reducing investments reduce the investor’s termination rates and increase...
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The Role of Creative Industries in Industrial Innovation
Trüby, Johannes; Rammer, Christian; Müller, Kathrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
This paper analyses the role of creative industries in affecting an economy's innovation performance. We conducted a survey of more than 2,000 creative industry enterprises from Austria which are defined by a combination of sector affiliation and the degree of creativity of the services they...
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Technology transfer and the Internet: a chance for outsiders at public science to get into the business?
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001
The Internet is receiving increasing attention as a medium for technology transfer between public research and the … determinants of firm contacts established via the Internet. Special attention is paid to the effect of experiences in firm … interaction in the past. Econometric estimation results suggest that Internet contact to firms is more likely to be established by …
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