This paper investigates how competition and firm size affect the relationship between market uncertainty and Ramp …

This paper analyses the relationship between past innovation output, competition, and future innovation input in a … dynamic econometric setting. We distinguish two dimensions of competition that correspond to the concepts of product … substitutability and entry barriers due to fixed costs. Based on firm-level panel data for Germany and Switzerland we obtain consistent …

impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S and (3 … compensation in both countries. The impact of foreign competition on payperformance sensitivity differs between the US and Germany …In this study we use import penetration as a proxy for foreign competition in order to empirically analyze (1) the …

debate on potentially negative impacts of cost-increasing energy policies on international competitiveness. We use firm …-level data from three countries with similar industry structure but different energy policies: Germany, Switzerland, and Austria …

motivate firms to innovate in medium knowledge countries while price competition fosters innovation activities in advanced … firms to innovate abroad and not being forced predominantly by fierce competition or the lack of innovation resources in the … distributed globally. Firms' innovation activities which are carried out abroad comprise either the localization of uniform …

Knowledge spillovers to competitors are regarded as an important aspect of the innovation process. While a company …

use information on almost 6000 German SMEs from a company survey. Using the intensity of banking competition at the …

Innovation activities in the German enterprise sector showed two opposing trends over the past two decades: While total … innovation expenditures grew substantially, the number of firms conducting innovation activities fell sharply. Innovation … expenditures hence concentrate on fewer firms. In this paper we analyse the evolution of firms' innovation and R&D activities …