We estimate the effects of R&D on firms' credit ratings and on financial distress. The main purpose is the comparison of firms in Western Germany and Eastern Germany as a transitional economy. Innovative activity has a positive impact on firm value proxied by ratings in Western Germany, but a...

This article analyzes whether unemployment has an effect on the splitting of a marital relationship. The study uses 40000 observations on unemployment spells and marital status during the period from 1987 to 1996. Random effects probit and conditional likelihood logit models for panel data are...

Explicit profit sharing and rent-seeking as a form of efficiency wage are theoretically closely related though their respective literatures have made little contact. A number of theoretical models provide good foundations for both kinds of sharing. Attempts to quantify the "effects" of sharing,...

Empirical studies examining the impact of intra-firm wage dispersion on firm performance report extremely mixed results. Yet, almost all of the studies implicitly assume that there is a uniform relationship between wage dispersion and firm performance across all types of firms. In contrast, we...

This paper reports the results of a comparison of employment adjustment in Japan, the United States, and four major EC countries. Output and real wages are used in explaining the optimal employment level and change in employment. Short- and long-run responses to alterations of the exogenous...

While often presumed in academic literature and policy discussions there is little empirical evidence showing that academic patents protect more basic inventions than corporate patents. This study provides new evidence on the basicness of academic patents using German professor patents linked to...