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Income Richness of the Elderly in Germany - New Richness Indicators and Results from the German Income Tax Statistics (Fast 2001)

Böhm, Paul; Merz, Joachim - 2009

This contribution analyzes income richness of elder persons in Germany in 2001. Using actual data of the German Wage and Income Tax Statistics, which are particularly suitable for the analysis of high incomes, new richness indices are discussed and new results are presented. It appears that the...

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The Timing of Daily Demand for Goods and Services - Microsimulation Policy Results of an Aging Society, Increasing Labour Market Flexibility and Extended Public Childcare in German...

Merz, Joachim - 2011

's demographic structure with an aging society (with a population forecast for 2020 by the German Federal Statistical Office), the …

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The Timing of Daily Demand for Goods and Services - Multivariate Probit Estimates and Microsimulation Results for an Aged Population with German Time Use Diary Data

Merz, Joachim; Hanglberger, D; Rucha, Rafael - 2009

Though consumption research provides a broad spectrum of theoretical and empirical founded results, studies based on a daily focus are missing. Knowledge about the individual timing of daily demand for goods and services, opens - beyond a genuine contribution to consumption research -...

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Market and Non-Market Labor Supply and Recent German Tax Reform Impacts - Behavioral Response in a Combined Dynamic and Static Microsimulation Model

Merz, Joachim - 2009

This study on market and non-market labor supply and taxes is based on a theoretical microeconomic model with multiple labor supply in the formal and informal economy. This multiple time allocation model, which explicitly takes into account taxes, transfer payments, socioeconomic characteristics...

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Heterogeneity of patenting activity and its implications for scientific research

Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor); … - 2007

The increasing commercialization of university discoveries has initiated a controversy on the impacts for future scientific research. It has been argued that an increasing orientation towards commercialization may have a negative impact on more fundamental research efforts in science. Several...

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Evaluation of public R&D policies : a cross-country comparison

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Lopes Bento, Cindy - 2010

heterogeneity of the use of policy instruments. Applying a nonparametric matching method to identify the treatment effect, we find … policies. Finally, these two matching results can be combined in order to test for misallocation of public funds. Our analysis …-parametrischen Matching-Schätzers zeigt sich, dass subventionierte Unternehmen mehr in FuE investieren als in der kontrafaktischen Situation …

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Small firm innovation performance and employee involvement

Andries, Petra; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2012

It is known that small firms rely mainly on the CEO’s individual knowledge for developing innovations. Recent work suggests that this approach is inefficient since it underutilizes other employees’ knowledge. We study to which extent using CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees’ ideas...

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Uncertainty of outcome versus reputation : empirical evidence for the first German football division

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Stadtmann, Georg - 1999

This paper analyses the determination of match attendance in the German premier football league by applying models derived from Peel/Thomas (1992) and Janssens/Késenne (1987). Additionally we develop an improved version, where we incorporate the supporter clubs and the weather conditions as...

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An empirical test of the asymmetric models on innovative activity : who invests more into R&D - the incumbent or the challenger?

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2000

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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Haftungsregeln und Innovation

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2000

This paper discusses the incentives for innovation when liability is limited or not. Clearly innovative activity involves risk. On the one hand, the risk of firm owners is limited if their liability is limited. On the other hand credits will be more difficult to receive if liability is limited....

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