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A look at both sides of the coin: Investigating the protective and the disclosure effect of patenting

Heger, Diana; Zaby, Alexandra K. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

This paper presents a theoretical and empirical investigation of the two basic effects of patenting: the positive effect of temporarily mitigating competition, and the negative effect of mandatory disclosure of a patent application. Providing empirical evidence for the presented theoretical...

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The effects of corporate and country sustainability characteristics on the cost of debt: An international investigation

Hoepner, Andreas; Oikonomou, Ioannis; Scholtens, Bert; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

We investigate the relationship between corporate and country sustainability on the cost of bank loans. We look into … operating in all major industries. Our principal findings reveal that country sustainability related to both social and … of one unit in country sustainability scores is associated with an average decrease in the costs of debt by 64 basis …

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Combining technology and work organization: An analysis of complementarity between IT and decentralization across firms of different size

Rasel, Fabienne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

This paper examines whether information technology (IT) and decentralized work organization are complementary only for large firms or also for smaller firms. Empirical evidence, which suggests complementarity between IT and decentralization, is mainly based on large firms. Using data from a...

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Workers' skill level and information technology: evidence from German service firms

Falk, Martin; Seim, Katja - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999

This paperanalyses the link between human capitaland information technology(IT ) in the service production process. The analysis is based on 1994 cross-sectional data for 1929 German. Firms drawn from the first wave of the Mannheim Service Innovation Panel (MIP-S). Factor demand functions are...

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What drives the vacancy rate for information technology workers?

Falk, Martin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001

This paper provides empirical evidence on both the magnitude and determinants of unfilled positions for information technology workers using cross-sectional data on 4150 German firms. Vacancies are defined as unfilled positions excluding those created by replacement needs during the first half...

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Innovation and Information Technology in Services

Licht, Georg; Moch, Dietmar - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1997

The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by various recent papers (e.g. Oliner and Sichels 1994, Landauer 1995, Brynjolfsson and Hitt 1996). Several explanations are given for this missing link. Our paper deals with two...

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Do Older Workers Lower IT-Enabled Productivity? Firm-Level Evidence from Germany

Bertschek, Irene; Meyer, Jenny - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

The paper provides empirical evidence for the question whether firms' ITenabled labour productivity is affected by the age structure of the workforce. We apply a production function approach with heterogenous labour to firmlevel data from German manufacturing and services industries. We find...

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The impact of information technology on high-skilled labour in services: evidence from firm level panel data

Falk, Martin; Seim, Katja - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999

This paper analyses the link between the high-skilled employment share and the level of investment in information technology (IT) in the service production process. The analysis is based on an unbalanced panel data set for 933 West German firms over the period 1994-1996. To account for firms...

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China's R&D explosion: Analyzing productivity effects across ownership types and over time

Boeing, Philipp; Mueller, Elisabeth; Sandner, Philipp - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015

collaborations with individuals. Our comprehensive analysis depicts strengths but also weaknesses of the corporate sector in China …

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A political economy of China's export restrictions on rare earth elements

Pothen, Frank; Fink, Kilian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015

industries is found to be the main reason behind China's export barriers. They are part of a more extensive strategy aiming at …

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