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Financing Patterns of Innovative SMEs and the Perception of Innovation Barriers in Germany

Belitz, Heike; Lejpras, Anna - 2014

conditions in the context of other framework conditions for innovation. In Germany, there is a diversity of overall well … firms in our sample are generally positive about public financing of R&D in Germany in 2010. Despite the different funding …

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Determinants of Internationalization : Differences between Service and Manufacturing SMES

Lejpras, Anna - 2009

This paper empirically investigates the antecedents of internationalization of SMEs, focusing on differences between the manufacturing and service sectors. Specifically, employing a bivariate probit model based on survey data of approximately 3,900 East German firms, I analyze which firm-related...

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Knowledge, Location, and Internationalization : Empirical Evidence for Manufacturing SMEs

Lejpras, Anna - 2012

This paper investigates the links between locational conditions, innovative capabilities and internationalization of manufacturing SMEs. Two modes of foreign market servicing are explored: exporting activity and relocating of selected business activities abroad. The empirical analysis employs...

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Financial Leverage and Corporate Taxation : Evidence from German Corporate Tax Return Data

Dwenger, Nadja - 2011

corporate tax reform in Germany. The financial leverage is measured by the ratio of long-term debt to total capital. Endogeneity …

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Effective Profit Taxation and the Elasticity of the Corporate Income Tax Base : Evidence from German Corporate Tax Return Data

Dwenger, Nadja - 2011

introduction of a major corporate tax reform in Germany. Endogeneity of the effective tax rate is controlled for by an instrumental …

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The Incidence of the European Union Emissions Trading System and the Role of Revenue Recycling : Empirical Evidence from Combined Industry- and Household-Level Data

Beznoska, Martin - 2012

We calculate the expected incidence of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU-ETS) using industry and household-level data. By combining data on direct CO2 emissions by production sector from the German Environmental Account with the German Input-Output Accounts, we calculate the CO2...

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Bad Bank(s) and Recapitalization of the Banking Sector

Schaefer, Dorothea - 2009

With banking sectors worldwide still suffering from the effects of the financial crisis, public discussion of plans to place toxic assets in one or more bad banks has gained steam in recent weeks. The following paper presents a plan how governments can efficiently relieve ailing banks from toxic...

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Would a Legal Minimum Wage Reduce Poverty? A Microsimulation Study for Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2008

an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal … and had no negative employment effects. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing …

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Publications : German Economic Research Institutes on Track

Ketzler, Rolf - 2008

The request for a strengthening of academic research at the German economic research institutes by the German Science Council more than a decade ago was founded on the crucial insight that sound policy advice - the traditional task of the institutes - can only be guaranteed in the long term if...

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Naturalization Proclivities, Ethnicity and Integration

Constant, Amelie F. - 2008

This paper studies the determinants of naturalization among Turkish and ex-Yugoslav immigrants in Germany …, but not to those educated in Germany. We find that the degree of integration in German society has a differential effect … on citizenship acquisition. While a longer residence in Germany has a negative influence on actual or future …

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