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Dynamic R&D Choice and the Impact of the Firm's Financial Strength

Peters, Bettina - 2016

This article investigates how a firm's financial strength affects its dynamic decision to invest in R&D. We estimate a dynamic model of R&D choice using data for German firms in high-tech manufacturing industries. The model incorporates a measure of the firm's financial strength, derived from...

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Competition and Privacy in Online Markets : Evidence from the Mobile App Industry

Kesler, Reinhold - 2020

Policy makers are increasingly concerned about the combination of market power and massive data collection in digital markets. This concern is fueled by the theoretical prediction that more market power causes firms to collect ever more data from their users. We investigate the relationship...

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From Less Promising to Green? Technological Opportunities and Their Role in (Green) ICT Innovation

Cecere, Grazia; Rexhauser, Sascha; Schulte, Patrick - 2016

This paper aims to shed light on the role of technological opportunities for green innovation by studying the case of … Green ICT innovation. We test two hypotheses: (1) Firms active in low-opportunity technological areas are less innovative … Office with firm-level data from the German Innovation Panel (Mannheim Innovation Panel). The results are based on dynamic …

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Mobile Applications and Access to Private Data : The Supply Side of the Android Ecosystem

Kesler, Reinhold - 2018

We analyze the data collection strategies of 65,000 developers in the market for mobile applications and track 300,000 applications over four years. Many apps belong to developers with multiple apps. This fact generates variation in the privacy behaviors of the same developer for our analysis....

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Firm R&D Investment and Export Market Exposure

Peters, Bettina - 2019

product and process innovation among exporting firms and these innovations have a larger impact on productivity improvement in …

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Estimating Dynamic R&D Demand : An Analysis of Costs and Long-Run Benefits

Peters, Bettina; Roberts, Mark J.; Vuong, Van Anh; … - 2013

Using firm-level data from the German manufacturing sector, we estimate a dynamic, structural model of the firm’s decision to invest in R&D and quantify the cost and longrun benefit of this investment. The model incorporates and quantifies linkages between the firm’s R&D investment, product...

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