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Implications of network convergence on local access regulation in the US and the EU

Vanberg, Margit A. (contributor) - 2007

This paper provides an overview of telecommunications regulation in the U.S. and in Europe. For each region the history … of telecommunications regulations as well as the current regulatory regime is portrayed. The focus of this overview is on … telecommunications with Internet and broadcasting services. The criteria used by the regulatory authorities to identify those network …

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Comparing the efficiency of firms : Canadian telecommunication companies

Denny, Michael; Fontenay, Alain de; Werner, Manuel - 1982

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Validating the use of vignettes for subjective threshold scales

Delaney, Liam; Harmon, Colm; Kapteyn, Arie; Soest, … - 2008

Comparing self-assessed indicators of subjective outcomes such as health, work disability, political efficacy, job satisfaction, etc. across countries or socio-economic groups is often hampered by the fact that different groups use systematically different response scales. Anchoring vignettes...

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Two for the price of one? : On additionality effects of R&D subsidies ; a comparison between Flanders and Germany

Aerts, Kris (contributor); Schmidt, Tobias (contributor) - 2006

In this paper we empirically test whether public R&D subsidies crowd out private R&D investment in Flanders and Germany, using firm level data from the Flemish and German part of the Community Innovation survey (CIS III and IV). Both the non-parametric matching estimator and the conditional...

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Subsidized and non-subsidized R&D projects : do they differ?

Koehler, Mila; Peters, Bettina - 2017

Little is known about whether and to what extent the outcome of subsidized and non-subsidized R&D projects differ. In this paper we exploit a novel dataset of patent applications filed in Germany between 1995-2005, which allows us to identify if a patent application stems from a subsidized...

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Modeling asset returns : a comparison of theoretical and empirical models

Lüders, Erik (contributor); Schröder, Michael (contributor) - 2004 - Rev. version

This paper presents and compares several time-series models for returns of broadbased stock indices. These models nest a nonlinear asymmetric GARCH (NGARCH) model as a special case. Some of these models are empirically motivated ad-hoc specifications others are derived from a representative...

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The determinants of capital structure : some evidence from banks

Gropp, Reint (contributor); Heider, Florian (contributor) - 2008

This paper documents that standard cross-sectional determinants of firm leverage also apply to the capital structure of large banks in the United States and Europe. We find a remarkable consistency in sign, significance and economic magnitude. Like non-financial firms, banks appear to have...

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Polarization and rising wage inequality : comparing the U.S. and Germany

Antonczyk, Dirk; DeLeire, Thomas C.; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2010

This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz (1995) to separate age, time, and cohort effects. Between 1979 and 2004, wage inequality increased strongly in both the U.S. and Germany but there were various country specific...

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Informal university technology transfer : a comparison between the United States and Germany

Grimpe, Christoph; Fier, Heide - 2009

Existing literature has confined university technology transfer almost exclusively to formal mechanisms, like patents, licenses or royalty agreements. Relatively little is known about informal technology transfer that is based upon interactions between university scientists and industry...

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The impact of informational costs in quantity regulation of pollutants : the case of the European Emissions Trading Scheme

Heindl, Peter - 2011

There is extreme heterogeneity of firms regulated under the European Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) in terms of emissions evels and employed technology. We present a model that shows that behavior of firms under quantity regulation can differ strongly, dependent on the characteristics of the...

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