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Endogenous Product Versus Process Innovation and a Firm's Propensity to Export
Becker, Sascha O. - 2015
at the firm level. Product innovation is a key factor for successful market entry in models of creative destruction and … Schumpeterian growth. Process innovation helps securing a firm's market position given the characteristics of its product supply …. Both modes of innovation are expected to raise a firm's propensity to export. According to new trade theory, we conjecture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750419
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The Ifo Investment Database
Strobel, Thomas; Sauer, Stefan; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2013
In this paper we present the Ifo Investment Database, which provides annual investment data for 12 investment assets in 50 German industries from 1991 onward. The data is consistent with national accounts statistics provided by the German Federal Statistical Office and is based on investments in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009721990
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The Ifo Investment Database
Strobel, Thomas - 2013
In this paper we present the Ifo Investment Database, which provides annual investment data for 12 investment assets in 50 German industries from 1991 onward. The data is consistent with national accounts statistics provided by the German Federal Statistical Office and is based on investments in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084902
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Survival of New Firms in the Brazilian Franchising Segment : An Empirical Study
Facanha, Luis Otavio; Resende, Marcelo; Cardoso, Vicente; … - 2021
The paper investigates survival patterns of Brazilian franchising firms during the 1994-1999 period. First, at a more descriptive level one considered the (percentage) survival of newly created franchisors in the following years. The evidence indicated a drastic decay in survival after only a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316043
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Robust determinants of the shadow economy : an international comparison
Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2016
To synthesize the literature on determinants of the shadow economy, this paper uses three cross-national shadow economy measures and employs numerous determinants over hundreds of model combinations to identify robust determinants of the shadow economy and address modeling uncertainty. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457984
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Microeconometric evidence of financing frictions and innovative activity
Tiwari, Amaresh K.; Mohnen, Pierre A.; Palm, Franz C.; … - 2014
Using Dutch data we empirically investigate how financing and innovation vary across firm characteristics. We find that … when firms face financial constraints, debt financing and innovation choices are not independent of firm characteristics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010249680
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A retrospective study of state aid control in the German broadband market
Duso, Tomaso; Nardotto, Mattia; Seldeslachts, Jo - 2021
significantly increased in the municipalities receiving aid. This additional entry decreased average prices. Therefore, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433753
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Financial constraints and moral hazard : the case of franchising
Fan, Ying; Kühn, Kai-Uwe; Lafontaine, Francine - 2013
Financial constraints are an important impediment to the growth of small businesses. We study theoretically and empirically how the financial constraints of agents affect their decisions to exert effort, and, hence the organizational decisions and growth of principals, in the context of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010210716
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Exchange rate pass-through, domestic competition, and inflation : evidence from the 2005/08 revaluation of the Renminbi
Auer, Raphael A. - 2012
This paper quantifies the effect of the government-controlled appreciation of the Chinese renminbi (RMB) vis-à-vis the USD from 2005 to 2008 on the prices charged by US producers. As the RMB during that time was pegged to a basket of currencies, the empirical strategy must account for the fact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009511759
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Trade openness, market competition, and inflation : some sectoral evidence from OECD countries
Binici, Mahir; Cheung, Yin-Wong; Lai, Kon-sun - 2011
This study evaluates the role market competition plays in determining inflation based on sector-level data from OECD countries. In theory, trade openness can affect inflation through changes in market competitiveness and productivity. Nonetheless, previous empirical studies often fail to account...
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