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Determinants of Environmental Innovations in Germany: Do Organizational Measures Matter? A Discrete Choice Analysis at the Firm Level

Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas - 2004

realization of an environmental product and a process innovation, indeed only compared with the realization of no environmental … innovation. …

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Integrated Product Policy and Environmental Product Innovations: An Empirical Analysis

Rehfeld, Katharina-Maria; Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas - 2004

The European Commission has recently stepped up its promotion of the ?Integrated Product Policy?. The objective of the IPP is to support the realisation of environmental product innovations and thus to achieve a broad reduction of all environmental impacts throughout a product?s life cycle....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297394

Long-term impacts of environmental policy and eco-innovative activities of firms

Rennings, Klaus; Rexhäuser, Sascha - 2010

term effects of regulation on innovation. Second, whether the impact of different types of regulation differ by type of the … Community Innovation Survey 2009, in which companies were asked to cite the respective regulations to be responsive for the … regulation on innovation. Furthermore, different types of regulations varied with respect to their impact on several …

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Dynamic Optimal Capital Structure and Technological Change

Lööf, Hans - 2003

This paper incorporates the cost of adjustment between observed and optimal leverage in explaining the variation in firm?s equity or bank-debt financing investments. Using a dynamic adjustment approach identifies the determinants to capital structure between different financial systems. In...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298124

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

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

Information economics has emerged as the primary theoretical lens for framing financing decisions in firm R&D investment. Successful outcomes of R&D projects are either ex-ante impossible to predict or the information is asymmetrically distributed between inventors and investors. As a result,...

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Socially Responsible Investments in Germany, Switzerland and the United States: An Analysis of Investment Funds and Indices

Schröder, Michael - 2003

The aim of this study is the analysis of so called socially responsible investments (SRI). First, the performance of SRI equity investment funds and equity indices is investigated using Jensen´s alpha as performance measure. The analysis considers market timing strategies of the fund management...

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Research and development: financial constraints and the role of public funding for small and medium-sized enterprises

Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2002

German small and medium?sized firms (SME). Special attention is paid to the role of public R&D subsidies. For this purpose … SME in Western and East-ern Germany are compared because these regions are very different in their supply of public R …&D funding. It turns out that Western German SME are financially constrained in their R&D activities by both internal and …

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Climate policy induced investments in developing countries: the implications of investment risks

Böhringer, Christoph; Löschel, Andreas - 2002

International climate policy has assigned the leading role in emissions abatement to the industrialized countries while developing countries remain uncommitted to binding emission reduction targets. However, cooperation between the industrialized and the developing world through joint...

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Investment opportunities in Central and Eastern European equity markets: an econometric examination of the risk-return relationships for western investors

Schröder, Michael - 2000

This study focuses on the diversification benefits of the most developed equity markets of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). To evaluate these benefits of diversification we use so-called spanning tests based on a stochastic discount factor approach and estimated by General Methods of Moments...

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Bank owners or bank managers: who is keen on risk? Evidence from the financial crisis

Gropp, Reint E.; Köhler, Matthias - 2010

In this paper, we analyse whether bank owners or bank managers were the driving force behind the risks incurred in the wake of the financial crisis of 2007/2008. We show that owner controlled banks had higher profits in the years before the crisis, and incurred larger losses and were more likely...

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