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The theoretical discussion concerning the question whether the incumbent or the (potential) entrant invests more into R&D has attracted considerable interest. This paper reports the results of an empirical study on this question using data of about 3500 German firms over the years 1992 to 1995....
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Firms in developed countries face increasing shortages of young workers. This paper studies the importance of young workers, particularly vocational trainees, for firm technology investments. Leveraging exogenous variation in trainee supply caused by an education reform in Germany in 2001, I...
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the low carbon-emitting sector, and (ii) reduce real investment and the capital stock in the highly carbon-emitting sector …, while real investment in the sector with low carbon emissions tends to fare better. To apply the theoretical predictions to … low carbon emissions, and (ii) substantial investment reallocation takes place, in particular from the manufacturing …
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competitiveness, especially for tax rates. Investment decisions respond asymmetrically to tax competitiveness. Positive tax rank … information reduces investment intentions in neighboring municipalities. Compared to this, negative tax news increase relocation … satisfaction but do not influence investment. …
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Many assets derive their value not only from future cash flows but also from their ability to serve as collateral. In this paper, we investigate this collateral value and its impact on asset returns in an infinite-horizon general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents facing collateral...
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activities. For this purpose, I propose a novel measure of synthetic leverage, which can be estimated based on publicly available … information. In the empirical application, I show that German equity funds have increased their risk-taking via synthetic leverage …
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Traditional theory suggests that higher bank profitability (or franchise value) dissuades bank risk-taking. We … risk on a larger scale, inducing risk-taking. This effect is more pronounced when bank leverage constraints are looser, or …
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