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Aerts, Kris; Kraft, Kornelius; Lang, Julia - 2013

We investigate the effect of profit-sharing on product and process innovation. Profit-sharing is a credible commitment … that the introduction of profit-sharing only spurs product innovation. …

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Private incentives to innovate : interplay of new products and brand-name reputation

Leheyda, Nina (contributor) - 2008

basis of the dataset for the German car industry for 2003. The dataset is rather unique in the sense that it contains …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793986

An empirical test of the asymmetric models on innovative activity : who invests more into R&D - the incumbent or the challenger?

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2000

The theoretical discussion concerning the question whether the incumbent or the (potential) entrant invests more into R&D has attracted considerable interest. This paper reports the results of an empirical study on this question using data of about 3500 German firms over the years 1992 to 1995....

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Corporate Hierarchies Under Employee Representation

Belloc, Filippo - 2020

This paper analyzes whether workplace employee representation (ER) affects the design of firm hierarchies. We rationalize the role of ER within a knowledge-based model of hierarchies, where the firm's choice of hierarchical layers depends on the trade-off between communication and knowledge...

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Research cooperation and research expenditures with endogenous absorptive capacity : theory and microeconometric evidence for the German service sector

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2000

collaborate in R&D is increasing in R&D productivity. The key findings of the theoretical model are tested using German innovation … survey data for the service sector. A simultaneous model for cooperation choice and innovation expenditures shows that R …&D cooperation has a weakly significant positive effect on innovation expenditures. The empirical results broadly support the …

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Is Entrepreneurial Success Predictable? An Ex-Ante Analysis of the Character-Based Approach

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - 2021

This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which is based on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial success. A unique data set is used consisting of 414 previously unemployed persons whose personal...

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Multitasking and Wages

Snower, Dennis J. - 2013

This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work can help to understand increasing wage inequality. We present a theoretical model in which workers with a wider span of competence (higher level of multitasking) earn a wage premium. Since abilities and opportunities to expand the...

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Sources of spillovers for imitation and innovation

Cappellin, Riccardo; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2013

market (innovation). It turns out that spillovers from rivals lead to more imitation, while inputs from customers and … research institutions enhance original innovation. …

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Application of a simple nonparametric conditional quantile function estimator in unemployment duration analysis

Wichert, Laura (contributor); Wilke, Ralf A. (contributor) - 2005

The paper analyses the potential impact of stock market developments on lending behaviour from different perspectives. First we scrutinize the impact of stock market movements on the banks’ and on the borrowers’ balance sheets. Subsequently we estimate aggregate credit supply and demand...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003342766

Intergovernmental grants and public input provision : theory and evidence from Germany

Hauptmeier, Sebastian (contributor) - 2007

This paper uses a simple model of fiscal competition between local jurisdictions to analyse the impact of intergovernmental grants on the composition of public spending. We find that a higher degree of redistribution within a system of ʺfiscal equalisationʺ coincides with a smaller overall...

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