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We argue that in labor markets with central wage bargaining wage flexibility varies systematically across the wage distribution: local wage flexibility is more relevant for the upper part of the wage distribution, and flexibility of wages negotiated under central wage bargaining affects the...
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This paper analyzes the dynamic effects of different macroeconomic shocks on unemployment in Germany. In a first step …
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Danish capital Copenhagen, on inventive activity in the region of Malmö. Applying difference-in-difference estimation on …
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This paper analyses the effects of the creation or removal of borders on firms' profits and their optimal location in an autarkic region. A firm chooses a position close to a border if a crucial degree of openness is achieved. Furthermore, the positive effect of removal of borders decreases in...
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first few quarters. This combination resulted in a major increase of imports from the main trading partners of West Germany … in other countries leading to a feedback on Germany. The paper provides a short overview over the basic model. The … modelling approach and estimation results for the trade submodels are presented in some detail and simmulation results for the …
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on industrial innovations in Germany. We discuss the characteristics of companies that benefit from the findings of … of received knowledge spillovers, we found no higher probability of publicly supported innovations for firms in Germany …
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In this paper it is tested which of the various alternative approaches for constructing knowledge spillover pools suggested in existing literature measures the extent to which a firm can costlessly receive external knowlegde best. Since knowledge spillovers are unmeasurable, a 'goodness of fit'...
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This paper derives a three stage Cournot duopoly game for research collaboration, research expenditures and product market competition. The amount of knowledge firms can absorb from other firms is made dependent on their own research efforts, e.g., firms' absorptive capacity is treated as an...
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