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Kollektive Lohnverhandlungen und Auslandsdirektinvestitionen: eine empirische Studie mit Firmendaten

Peters, Ralf-Henning - 2000

Diese Studie untersucht den Einfluss des Tarifvertragssystems auf die Entscheidung von Unternehmen, im Ausland zu investieren. Ein Lohnverhandlungsmodell zeigt, dass produktive Unternehmen durch Flächentarifverträge im Heimatland begünstigt werden und seltener im Ausland investieren als bei...

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An information economics perspective on main bank relationships and firm R&D

Hoewer, Daniel; Schmidt, Tobias; Sofka, Wolfgang - 2011

distributed between inventors and investors. As a result, bank lending for firm R&D has been rare. However, firms can signal the … potential to alter the risk assessment of the firm's main bank. Additionally, we explore heterogeneities in these risk … assessments arising from the industry level and the main bank's portfolio. We test our theoretical predictions for a sample of …

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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations

Zwick, Thomas - 2000

Employee resistance against innovations is a virulent phenomenon and there is a broad theoretical literature on its determinants. The empirical evidence is scarce, however, and mainly provides descriptive evidence on the incidence of the phenomenon and concentrates on the effectiveness of change...

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Do Computers Call for Training? Firm-level Evidence on Complementarities Between ICT and Human Capital Investments

Hempell, Thomas - 2003

This paper explores whether investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) and firm?sponsored training programmes are complementary. Three approaches are applied to panel data from German service companies for the time period 1994?98. Results for a system of interrelated factor...

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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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Semiparametric Estimation of Regression Functions Under Shape Invariance Restrictions

Wilke, Ralf A. - 2003

This paper considers the shape invariant modelling approach in semiparametric regression estimation. Nonparametric … estimation procedure is suggested. √N- consistency of the parameter estimates is proved. Finite sample performance of this …

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Comparing Investment and Employment Specialisation Patterns of EU Regions

Stirböck, Claudia - 2004

This study analyses relative sectoral specialisation of EU regions on the basis of investment and employment patterns. Controlling for heteroscedasticity and potential endogeneity in the econometric analysis, we find that relative specialisation in manufacturing sectors is higher in central...

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Underdiversification in Private Companies: Required Returns and Incentive Effects

Müller, Elisabeth - 2004

Owners of private companies are often highly underdiversified which exposes them to idiosyncratic risk. We investigate the consequences of underdiversification at the company level. Information on US companies and their owners is obtained from the Survey of Consumer Finances and the Survey of...

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Employment Effects of Different Innovation Activities: Microeconometric Evidence

Peters, Bettina - 2004

Using the model recently developed by Jaumandreu (2003) this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in Germany. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations using specific information provided by CIS data. It...

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Konzernsteuerquote und Invesitionsverhalten

Becker, Johannes; Fuest, Clemens; Spengel, Christoph - 2005

Kapitalmarktorientierte Unternehmen in Deutschland orientieren sich in zunehmendem Maße an der Konzernsteuerquote. Diese unterscheidet sich in wesentlichen Aspekten von den in der Forschung gängigen Maßen der effektiven Besteuerung, die auf dem neoklassischen Investitionsmodell basieren. Dies...

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