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Germany's market transparency unit for fuels : fostering collusion or competition?
Horvath, Marco - 2019
To increase competition in the retail market for gasoline, Germany's Federal Cartel Office established the so …-called Market Transparency Unit for Fuels (MTU). Drawing on a panel data set covering 6,834 stations in Germany and employing both ….834 Stationen in Deutschland und unter Verwendung von sowohl Fixed-Effects-Methoden als auch eines Difference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012155116
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The impact of FDI on innovation in target firms
Stiebale, Joel (contributor); Reize, Frank (contributor) - 2008
This paper contributes to the ongoing debate on the welfare effects of foreign direct investment by investigating the effects of cross-border mergers and acquisitions on innovation activities in target firms. The empirical analysis is based on survey and ownership data for a large sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003729056
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Benefiting from publicly funded pre-competitive research : differences between insiders and outsiders
Eckl, Verena; Engel, Dirk - 2009
spillovers of pre-competitive publicly funded Industrial Collective Research (ICR) in Germany. The ICR aims to compensate for … obstacles faced by SME in carrying out research and development (R&D). Using data from 911 firms surveyed in 2006, the results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861480
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Agglomeration effects and the location of foreign direct investment : evidence from French first-time movers
Procher, Vivien - 2009
This paper analyzes the location choice determinants of French first-time investments in Europe, North America and North Africa. Firm locations are examined on two geographical scales, the national and regional level. The final sample comprises 307 location decisions in 27 countries and across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824854
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Is there a future for small hospitals in Germany?
Augurzky, Boris; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2010
We analyse the financial performance of small German hospitals based on balance sheet data of about 1,000 hospitals in 2007. Measures of financial performance are the earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) and the probability of default (PD). We find that, on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008933294
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Wage and employment effects of workplace representation : a ”right to co-manage” model
Gu, Yiquan - 2010
of bargaining power and co-determination power. In particular, works councils always increase employment while their … workers as a union. -- Workplace representation ; union-oligopoly bargaining ; firm-council codetermination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003950956
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Taxes and corporate financing decisions : evidence from the Belgian ACE reform
Moore, Nils aus dem - 2014
We contribute to the empirical literature on the debt bias of corporate income taxation through a micro-econometric evaluation of the so-called ACE corporate tax reform in Belgium based on firm-level accounting data. We interpret the tax reform that came into effect in January 2006 as an...
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Business taxation and wages : evidence from individual panel data
Bauer, Thomas K.; Kasten, Tanja; Siemers, Lars-H.R. - 2012
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Impacts of a micro-enterprise clustering program on firm performance in Ghana
Peters, Jörg; Sievert, Maximiliane; Strupat, Christoph - 2013
Widely considered as an important backbone of economies in developing countries, micro- and small enterprises face several constraints in doing business in Ghana. The creation of industrial zones (IZ) with improved access to infrastructure and secured land tenure is a potential remedy to promote...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009722426
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The impact of resource efficiency measures on performance in small and medium-sized enterprises
Horbach, Jens - 2016
the Eurobarometer data for small and medium-sized firms (SME´s). The analysis for SME´s seems to be interesting because …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011538669