shareholder-oriented firms in a model of imperfect competition. Stakeholder firms are more (less) valuable than shareholder firms …

Latin American countries have lost competitiveness in world markets in comparison to China over the last two decades … US, Argentina, Japan, Korea, UK, Germany, and Spain) will be compared to Mexico's exports for a number of sectors over a …

-to-head competition with Germany; iii) low non-price competitiveness of French export goods; iv) offshoring of entire production processes …

is found that patents ought to be weaker, the more intense competition, the higher R&D productivity, and the more … intricate reverse engineering are. Unlike similar step-by-step innovation models of economic growth, the model assumes Cournot … competition and introduces an empirically substantiated measure of sector differences in the ability to catch up with the …

&D investment, and derive predictions on the effects of trust and competition on suppliers’ investment and buyers’ procurement … - but also with more competitive procurement: trust and rents from reduced supplier competition in the procurement process …

use the separation of Germany into the communist GDR and the democratic FRG and its reunification in 1990 as a natural … experiment. Relying on household data that are representative for Germany, our empirical results strongly indicate that … conspicuous consumption is relatively more important in East Germany. Importantly, a significant gap in conspicuous consumption …

to the fit. Using data for the United States, the euro area and Germany, we assess the performance of boosting when …

people living in Turkey and in Germany, using the anthropological concept of worldview. Data were gathered from four surveys …: nationwide surveys in Turkey and Germany, an online survey of Turkish people living in Germany, and a survey conducted as an … experiment in a mosque attended by Turkish people in Germany. We find striking differences in parenting attitudes between Turkish …