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Innovations induce asymmetric employment movements
Zwick, Thomas - 1999
This paper provides a labour supply explanation to the observation that in Germany employment changes are asymmetric during the business cycle. Employment increases are slower, because the reservation wage of workers increases in times of job uncertainty. Workers are afraid in those periods of...
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Determinanten des technischen Fortschritts auf Branchenebene: Ein Überblick
Harabi, Najib - 1997
Die heutige intensive Auseinandersetzung mit dem Fragenkomplex "technischer Fortschritt" hat verschiedene historische Wurzeln und entstammt verschiedenen Forschungsrichtungen. Technischer Fortschritt wird heute von den meisten Ökonomen als ökonomisches Phänomen anerkannt, dem volle...
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Umweltpolitik und Innovation: Grundlegende Begriffe und Zusammenhänge
Hemmelskamp, Jens - 1996
Im Rückgriff auf die Innovationsforschung wird ein Ansatz für eine gemeinsame Sprache und eine konsistente Systematik für Innovationen im Umweltbereich entwickelt. Dazu werden einige allgemeine Begriffsdefinitionen der Innovationsforschung erläutert, der Begriff Umweltinnovation eingeführt...
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Grenzen und Reichweiten Nationaler Innovationssysteme und forschungspolitische Implikationen
Spielkamp, Alfred - 1997
importance of the interactions and linkages among acteurs and institutions involved in innovation and technology development of a … country and calls such a web of interaction a national innovation system. The theoretical and empirical analyses on national … systems of innovation lead to the conclusion that countries differ in the way in which knowledge flows and that innovation …
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Anonymisierung von Unternehmensdaten: Ein Überblick und beispielhafte Darstellung anhand des Mannheimer Innovationspanels
Gottschalk, Sandra - 2002
Für Unternehmensdaten existieren im Gegensatz zu Personendaten keine einheitlichen Regeln zur Erstellung von Scientific-Use-Files, d.h. eines anonymisierten Datenfiles zur wissenschaftlichen Nutzung. Verschiedene Anonymisierungsmethoden werden hier vorgestellt. Um Mikrodaten einer breiten...
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Private Incentives to Innovate: Interplay of New Products and Brand-Name Reputation
Leheyda, Nina - 2008
This paper studies the introduction of new products (increase in product variety) in the automobile industry. The focus is on the two sources of market power that may allow the firms to get higher profits (and, thus, recoup investments): new products and brand-name reputation. The effects of new...
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Environmental policy instruments and their effects on innovation
Hemmelskamp, Jens - 1996
The influence of environmental policy on innovative behaviour of companies has so far recieved little attention in scientific discourse. Based on recent literature, the paper analyses the impact of requirements, levies, permits, liability laws, and the EC-eco- audit regulation with respect to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299666
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Innovation, competition and incentives for R&D
Wörter, Martin; Rammer, Christian; Arvanitis, Spyros - 2010
This paper analyses the relationship between past innovation output, competition, and future innovation input in a … results for both countries. Innovation output in t-1 as measured by the sales share of innovative products is positively …
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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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Energy Biased Technical Change: A CGE Analysis
Löschel, Andreas; Otto, Vincent M.; Dellink, Rob B. - 2005
This paper studies energy bias in technical change. For this purpose, we develop a computable general equilibrium model that builds on endogenous growth models. The model explicitly captures links between energy, the rate and direction of technical change, and the economy. We derive the...
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