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What drives market structure? On the relation between firm demographic processes, firms? innovative behaviour and market structure
Fauchart, Emmanuelle; Keilbach, Max - 2002
In this paper we suggest an structural model that specifies firm growth as a function of firm specific parameters and of competition for purchase power with other firms on a given market. Moreover, we explicitely model firms? innovative behaviour and distinguish between dierent innovation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297665
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Inventions under siege? The impact of technology competition on licensing
Grimpe, Christoph; Hussinger, Katrin - 2009
In recent years, firms have increasingly contributed to and been confronted with a patent landscape characterized by numerous but marginal inventions, overlapping claims and patent fences. Literature suggests that both the fragmentation of ownership and the threat of a firm's patent applications...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298849
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The influence of strategic patenting on companies' patent portfolios
Blind, Knut; Cremers, Katrin; Mueller, Elisabeth - 2008
This paper analyses whether strategic motives for patenting influence the characteristics of companies' patent portfolios. We use the number of citations and oppositions to represent these characteristics. The investigation is based on survey and patent data from German companies. We find clear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299473
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Works Councils and the Productivity Impact of Direct Employee Participation
Zwick, Thomas - 2003
This paper measures the productivity impact of management-led participative establishment practices. On the basis of a representative German establishment data set, the IAB establishment panel, the study finds that the presence of team-work, a reduction of hierarchies and autonomous work groups...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297298
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Gender Earnings Gap in German Firms: The Impact of Firm Characteristics and Institutions
Heinze, Anja; Wolf, Elke - 2006
Germany. The innovation of our research is that we do not just compare average male and female wages (of specific groups of … than the average overall GWG. Furthermore, we can show that firms with formalized co-determination (works council) and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297528
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Book-tax conformity: Empirical evidence from Germany
Zinn, Benedikt; Spengel, Christoph - 2012
-tax differences in Germany. For the first time, the data set enables us to evaluate the extent to which financial and tax accounting … differ in Germany in the most accurate manner. Despite the close link between financial and tax accounting in Germany, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010309809
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Research and development: financial constraints and the role of public funding for small and medium-sized enterprises
Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2002
SME in Western and East-ern Germany are compared because these regions are very different in their supply of public R … German small and medium?sized firms (SME). Special attention is paid to the role of public R&D subsidies. For this purpose …&D funding. It turns out that Western German SME are financially constrained in their R&D activities by both internal and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297688
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What drives market structure? On the relation between firm demographic processes, firms? innovative behaviour and market structure
Fauchart, Emmanuelle; Keilbach, Max - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002
In this paper we suggest an structural model that specifies firm growth as a function of firm specific parameters and of competition for purchase power with other firms on a given market. Moreover, we explicitely model firms? innovative behaviour and distinguish between dierent innovation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098033
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What Determines the ZEW Indicator?
Hüfner, Felix P.; Lahl, David - 2003
This paper analyzes which factors are driving the ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment. Using the results of a poll among survey participants as well as Granger causality tests we identify three groups of influence factors: other sentiment indicators, financial variables and real economy data. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297299
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Integrated Financial Supervision in Germany
Schüler, Martin - 2004
With the establishment of the Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin) in May 2002 Germany followed the … authority in Germany. Moreover, BaFin?s tasks and structure are discussed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297360