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Endogenous firm heterogeneity, ICT and R&D incentives

Cequera, Daniel (contributor); Klein, Gordon J. (contributor) - 2008

Firm heterogeneity explains the productivity driven selection mechanism that determines aggregate productivity growth within industries. This paper empirically demonstrates that ICT has a robust impact on firm heterogeneity only when ICT is used intensively and jointly with specific ICT...

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Productivity effects of organizational change : microeconometric evidence

Bertschek, Irene; Kaiser, Ulrich - 2003 - This version: October 2003

This paper analyzes the relationship between investment in information and communication technologies (ICT), non-ICT-investment, labor productivity and workplace reorganization. Firms are assumed to reorganize workplaces if the productivity gains arising from workplace reorganization exceed the...

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What's spurious, what's real? : Measuring the productivity impacts of ICT at the firm-level

Hempell, Thomas (contributor) - 2002

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Do computers call for training? : Firm level evidence on complementarities between ICT and human capital investments

Hempell, Thomas (contributor) - 2003

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The political cconomy of corporate tax harmonization : why do European politicians (dis)like minimum tax rates?

Osterloh, Steffen (contributor); … - 2008

Setting minimum tax rates is a well discussed way of mitigating pressure from tax competition. This paper investigates which motives shape the support for a minimum corporate tax among politicians. We make use of a unique data base: a survey among members of the European parliament. Our results...

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Liberalization of the postal service market in Europe : entry with universal service and partial coverage

Beschorner, Patrick Frank Ernst (contributor) - 2008

In the advent of postal market liberalization in several European countries we expect that the incumbent operators anticipate entry by competitors who are not required to offer universal service, i.e. coverage of the entire country and uniform pricing. The market for postal service exhibits...

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Developing supra-European emissions trading schemes : an efficiency and international trade analysis

Alexeeva-Talebi, Victoria (contributor); … - 2007

Given the coexistent EU priorities concerning the competitiveness of European industries and international emissions … regulation at the company level, this paper assesses the efficiency and competitiveness implications of linking the EU Emissions … equilibrium approach shows that the aggregate welfare impacts of linking the EU ETS are rather limited. We further find that the …

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Partisan politics in corporate tax competition

Osterloh, Steffen; Debus, Marc - 2009

This paper studies the effects of political factors, mainly partisanship, on corporate taxes in the past 30 years – a period of intensifying competitive pressure in Europe. Extending the Zodrow-Mieszkowski model by decision-makers who have ideological preferences yields the hypothesis that...

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The impact of personal and corporate taxation on capital structure choices

Overesch, Michael (contributor); Voeller, Dennis (contributor) - 2008

This paper empirically analyses whether both personal and corporate taxation have an impact on companies' capital structure decisions. We investigate the effect of the difference in taxation of debt and equity financing on capital structures. Our empirical results, based on a comprehensive panel...

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Efficieny losses from overlapping economic instruments in European carbon emissions regulation

Böhringer, Christoph (contributor); … - 2006

Energy markets and energy-intensive industries in all EU member states especially in Germany are subject to a diverse … emission taxes and emissions trading in qualitative and quantitative terms within a partial equilibrium framework for the EU …. It turns out that those firms within the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) which at the same time are subject to …

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