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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 …
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-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 …
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This contribution is concerned with the spread of new products in small and medium-sized enterprises in the manufacturing sector. Based on an empirical study it is analyzed according to which factors planned product launches are either genuine market novelties or products that are new from the...
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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 …
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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
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...
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