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Verschwörung oder Marktwirtschaft? : was bestimmt die Benzinpreise?

Kasten, Christiane; Klepper, Gernot - 2001

Die starken Preissteigerungen für Benzin in den letzten 2 Jahren sind häufig auf mangelnden Wettbewerb zurückgeführt worden. Die These wird überprüft, indem die Wettbewerbsstruktur bei Tankstellen und deren Vorleistungsbeziehungen dargestellt werden und ökonometrische Schätzungen über...

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Wage cyclicality under different regimes of industrial relations

Gartner, Hermann; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - 2010

Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to … council ; Germany …

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The influence of strategic patenting on companies' patent portfolios

Blind, Knut; Cremers, Katrin; Mueller, Elisabeth - 2008

This paper analyses whether strategic motives for patenting influence the characteristics of companies' patent portfolios. We use the number of citations and oppositions to represent these characteristics. The investigation is based on survey and patent data from German companies. We find clear...

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Works Councils and the Productivity Impact of Direct Employee Participation

Zwick, Thomas - 2003

This paper measures the productivity impact of management-led participative establishment practices. On the basis of a representative German establishment data set, the IAB establishment panel, the study finds that the presence of team-work, a reduction of hierarchies and autonomous work groups...

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Gender Earnings Gap in German Firms: The Impact of Firm Characteristics and Institutions

Heinze, Anja; Wolf, Elke - 2006

Germany. The innovation of our research is that we do not just compare average male and female wages (of specific groups of … than the average overall GWG. Furthermore, we can show that firms with formalized co-determination (works council) and …

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Family firm internationalization : influence of familiness on the Spanish firm export activity

Merino de Lucas, Fernando; Monreal-Pérez, Joaquín; … - 2012

This paper studies the determinants of the export activity of family SMEs, disentangling the three main dimensions that comprise the concept of familiness: power, experience, and culture. The results, using the F-PEC scale over a sample of 500 Spanish SMEs, show that this approach identifies the...

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Research and development: financial constraints and the role of public funding for small and medium-sized enterprises

Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2002

SME in Western and East-ern Germany are compared because these regions are very different in their supply of public R … German small and medium?sized firms (SME). Special attention is paid to the role of public R&D subsidies. For this purpose …&D funding. It turns out that Western German SME are financially constrained in their R&D activities by both internal and …

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Auswirkungen von Erbschaften und Schenkungen auf die Vermögensbildung privater Personen und Haushalte: Eine ökonometrische Analyse auf der Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels

Westerheide, Peter - 2004

Die Untersuchung analysiert das Sparverhalten der über 30- bis unter 50jährigen Personen bzw. Haushalte mit Haushaltsvorständen in dieser Altersgruppe in Reaktion auf erhaltene Erbschaften bzw. Transfers zu Lebzeiten. Zugrunde liegen aktuelle Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels. Mittels...

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Payout Policy and Owners? Interests: Evidence from German Savings Banks

Kleff, Volker; Weber, Martin - 2005

The savings banks? decision to distribute profits among their public owners is strongly regulated by law in order to guarantee their adequate funding via retained profits. However, the legal scope is reluctantly exhausted. In this study we examine the determinants of the savings banks? payout...

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Capital policy of German savings banks: a survey

Kleff, Volker - 2005

In contrast to earlier field studies, we survey German public savings banks on their management of capital. We find that the most important determinants of the savings banks? target capital ratio are risk aversion, the desired credit growth and profitability. Savings banks prefer to manage the...

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