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German car buyers' willingness to pay to reduce CO2 emissions

Achtnicht, Martin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

Motorized individual transport strongly contributes to global CO2 emissions, due to its intensive usage of fossil fuels. Current political efforts addressing this issue (i.e. emission performance standards in the EU) are directed towards car manufacturers. This paper focuses on the demand side....

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Factors influencing German house owners' preferences on energy retrofits

Achtnicht, Martin; Madlener, Reinhard - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

In this paper, we identify key drivers and barriers for the adoption of building energy retrofits in Germany, which is promoted by public policy as an important measure to address the future challenges of climate change and energy security. We analyze data from a 2009 survey of more than 400...

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Do environmental benefits matter? A choice experiment among house owners in Germany

Achtnicht, Martin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

Residential buildings strongly contribute to global CO2 emissions due to the high energy demand for electricity and heating, particularly in industrialised countries. Within the EU, decentralised heat generation is of particular relevance for future climate policy, as its emissions are not...

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Airline networks, mergers, and consumer welfare

Hüschelrath, Kai; Müller, Kathrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

We study the consumer welfare effects of mergers in airline networks. Based on the development of a general classification of affected routes, we apply a difference-indifferences approach to exemplarily investigate the price effects of the America West Airlines - US Airways merger completed in...

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Peer effects and academics' industry involvement: The moderating role of age on professional imprinting

Aschhoff, Birgit; Grimpe, Christoph - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

330 German academics in the field of biotechnology and publication data from the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE …

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The Birth of German Biotechnology Industry: Did Venture Capital run the Show?

Heneric, Oliver; Engel, Dirk; Champenois, Claire - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

corporate investors) in the emergence of a new biotechnology industry in Germany in the second half of the 90?s. This analysis … takes into account the different business models and business fields to be found in the biotechnology industry. Based on … theoretical arguments, a great relevance of VC-companies in financing young innovative biotechnology firms developing health care …

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Do University Based Regions Really Attract Outside Entrepreneurs: The Case of the German Biotechnology Industry

Engel, Dirk; Heneric, Oliver - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

?s biotechnology founders. We present an unique approach to highlight the role of knowledge spillovers as we differentiate according …

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Public R&D Policy: The Right Turns of the Wrong Screw? The Case of the German Biotechnology Industry

Fier, Andreas; Heneric, Oliver - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

The German biotechnology industry missed the accession of this key technology in the 1980s. Policy makers make … particular not discriminating different kinds of ?risk? in the field of biotechnology. The study combines survey data of German …

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Exploring the relationship between scientist human capital and firm performance: The case of biomedical academic entrepreneurs in the SBIR program

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Toole, Andrew A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

Do academic scientists bring valuable human capital to the companies they found or join? If so, what are the particular skills that compose their human capital and how are these skills related to firm performance? This paper examines these questions using a particular group of academic...

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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

British biotechnology companies we have identified all patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO). Applying hazard rate …

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