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Estimating the benefits of R&D subsidies for Germany

Koehler, Mila - 2018

In Germany, R&D subsidies are an important tool to support innovation in the private sector. This paper studies the …

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Radical or incremental : where does R&D policy hit?

Beck, Mathias; Lopes Bento, Cindy; Schenker-Wicki, Andrea - 2014 - This version: September 2014

substitution effects or general innovation outcome measures, but we are interested in knowing where the policy effect is highest …: on innovation close to the market (i.e. incremental innovation) or on innovation that is still far from the market and … market failure is highest, that is, for radical innovation. Taking into account that the Swiss funding agency encourages …

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Bank credit supply and firm innovation

Giebel, Marek; Kraft, Kornelius - 2018

financial crisis 2008/2009 on their business customers’ innovation activity. Using a matched bank-firm data set for Germany, we … find that having relations with a more severely affected bank seriously hampers firms’ current innovation activities due to … initiate new product and process innovations and to reallocate human resources to innovation during the financial crisis. …

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Innovationen, Anlageinvestitionen und immaterielle Investitionen

Rammer, Christian; Köhler, Christian - 2012

Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Beziehung verschiedener Konzepte von investiven Ausgaben in Unternehmen, ihre Verbindung zu Innovationen und die Faktoren, die Innovations- und Investitionsentscheidungen von Unternehmen beeinflussen. Neben dem traditionellen Investitionsbegriff, der sich...

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Active owners and the failure of newly adopted works councils

Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2013

Using representative data from the IAB Establishment Panel, we show that employees in establishments with active owners are less likely to introduce a works council. Moreover, we show that, in case of an introduction, the new works council is less likely to survive if active owners are present....

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Cartel detection in procurement markets

Hüschelrath, Kai; Veith, Tobias - 2011

Cartel detection is usually viewed as a key task of either competition authorities or compliance officials in firms with an elevated risk of cartelization. We argue that customers of hard core cartels can have both incentives and possibilities to detect such agreements on their own initiative...

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Carbon management : evidence from case studies of German firms under the EU ETS

Heindl, Peter; Lutz, Benjamin Johannes - 2012

This paper examines the management practices of German firms with obligations under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) based on six structured in-depth interviews with managers of firms from different industries and based on survey data. The paper sheds light on management and trading...

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Strategic complementarities between different types of ICT-expenditures

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2003

Multivariate Tobit models are estimated using German cross-sectional data to test whether strategic complementarities exist between expenditures in four different types of ICT-components. If two ICT-components are complements, they are correlated (provided that agents act rationally)....

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Does codetermination affect the composition of variable versus fixed parts of executive compensation?

Dyballa, Katharina; Kraft, Kornelius - 2015

Contrary to previous literature we hypothesize that interests of labor may well – like that of shareholders – aim at securing the long-run survival of the firm. Consequently, employee representatives on the supervisory board could well have an interest in increasing incentive-based...

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Knowing that you matter, matters! : the interplay of meaning, monetary incentives, and worker recognition

Kosfeld, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne; Yang, Xiaolan - 2014

We manipulate workers’ perceived meaning of a job in a field experiment. Half of the workers are informed that their job is important, the other half are told that their job is of no relevance. Results show that workers exert more effort when meaning is high, corroborating previous findings on...

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