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Chatelain, Jean-Bernard; Ralf, Kirsten; Bruno, Amable - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper studies how the assignment of patents as collateral determines the savings of firms and magnifies the effect of innovative rents on investment in research and development (R&D). We analyse the behaviour of innovative firms that face random and lumpy investment opportunities in R&D....

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Product differentiation and systematic risk: theory and empirical evidence

Bazdresch, Santiago - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Firms producing differentiated products have high margins and therefore low risk. As a result firms invest more into developing differentiated products when they perceive risk is high. Higher risk also implies higher product skewness towards more differentiated products and therefore higher...

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The Determinants of Corporate Growth

Rosique, Francisco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Corporate Growth is a concept that has been widely treated in a specific way or as part of strategy theories, in definition and in econometric models and has also been studied in many different aspects and approaches. The author describes in depth the main variables affecting corporate growth...

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Evidence from the Patent Record on the Development of Cash Dispensing Technology

Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo; Reid, Robert J. K. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

dispensing equipment, the immediate predecessor to the ATM. At the simplest level, at least four separate instance of innovation … than an understanding of the process of innovation itself and how these competing families developed into the modern … conception of an ATM. Our research supports the view of user-driven innovation as surviving business records and oral histories …

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Economic Recognition of Innovation

Rao, Balkrishna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Domestic Innovation (GDI) to quantify innovations in OECD countries. It will supplement universal measures such as the Gross …

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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, industrial innovation, and real option creation

Waters, James - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We look at the effect of the US Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) financial regulation on industrial innovation. Our theoretical …

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Inflation, Income Inequality and Economic Growth in Pakistan: A Cointegration Analysis

Ali, Sharafat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The study is an attempt to explore the impact of inflation and income inequality in Pakistan. The study also analyzes the effect of foreign direct investment, workers’ remittances and manufacturing value added on growth. Annual time series data from 1972 to 2007 was used for the analysis....

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Disclosure of environmental information and investments of firms

Iwata, Hiroki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

In recent years, voluntary approaches are expected to function as new environmental protection tools. This article analyzes whether environmental information of firms should be mandatorily disclosed or disclosed voluntarily, where consumers consider the environmental burdens of firms when buying...

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Venture Capital and Innovation in Europe

Geronikolaou, George; Papachristou, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper examines the direction of causality between Venture Capital (VC) and innovation (proxied by patents) in … suggesting that, in Europe, innovation seems to create a demand for VC and not VC a supply of innovation. In this sense …

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Network neutrality and congestion sensitive content providers: Implications for content variety, broadband investment and regulation

Krämer, Jan; Wiewiorra, Lukas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

We study departures from network neutrality through implementing a Quality of Service tiering regime in which an ISP charges for prioritization on a non-discriminatory basis. We find that Quality of Service tiering may be more efficient in the short run, because it better allocates the existing...

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