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

The paper aims at assessing discrete complementarities in innovation policies in the context of the Brazilian industry … on supermodularity and submodularity tests for obstacles to innovation (in the present application: lack of finance … analysis highlights the two phases of the innovation process in terms of the propensity and intensity of innovation. The …

-to-head competition with Germany; iii) low non-price competitiveness of French export goods; iv) offshoring of entire production processes … ; competitiveness ; exports ; export performance ; construction ; house prices ; resource allocation …

of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all …

World Cup finals were the first mega-event hosted by reunified Germany. We use this landmark event in German contemporary … history to investigate how the integration of the two parts of Germany progressed after 18 years of reunification. We still …

We examine evidence for a systematic underperformance of Germany's state-owned banks in the current financial crisis …

; public opinion poll ; PAYG pension system ; East Germany …

. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences … time. -- employment ; mothers ; parental leave ; East Germany ; child care …