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Loan availability and investment: Can innovative companies better cope with loan denials?
Mueller, Elisabeth; Reize, Frank - 2010
This study examines the consequences of loan denials for the investment performance of small and medium-sized German … investment than non-innovative companies. The non-randomness of loan denials is controlled for with a selection equation …
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The effect of subsidies on R&D investment and success: do subsidy history and size matter?
Aschhoff, Birgit - 2009
This study provides insights into the effects of public R&D grants on R&D input and output of firms from Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298803
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Local User-Producer Interaction in Innovation and Export Performance of Firms
Rammer, Christian; Beise, Marian - 2003
There is ample evidence that user-producer interaction is an important factor for successful innovations. It is often claimed that user-producer interaction is most effcient in close proximity. On the other hand, innovations are a major determinant for the export performance of firms. Does this...
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Global Sensing and Sensibility: A Multi-Stage Matching Assessment of Competitive Advantage from Foreign Sources of Innovation
Teichert, Thorsten; Sofka, Wolfgang - 2006
We focus on one of the core competitive capabilities of modern firms: the ability to deliver successful innovations in a globalized environment. Companies literally find themselves confronted with a world of ideas. The challenge remains to decide which impulses should be on top of the list and...
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Industrial change, stability of relative earnings, and substitution of unskilled labor in West-Germany
Steiner, Viktor; Mohr, Robert - 1998
We analyze the dramatic decline of the employment share of unskilled labor in the West German economy, in particular its relation to the relatively rigid earnings structure. We find that the substitution elasticity between unskilled and skilled labor is rather low in most sectors of the economy....
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Effektive Steuerbelastung der grenzüberschreitenden Geschäftstätigkeit nach den Vorschlägen zur Reform der Unternehmensbesteuerung
Spengel, Christoph - 2000
Das Steuersenkungsgesetz stellt das größte Reformvorhaben auf dem Gebiet der direkten Steuern in Deutschland seit der … internationalen Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Unternehmen am Standort Deutschland, Stärkung der Attraktivität des Standorts Deutschland für … (King-Fullerton-Ansatz) für Deutschland und die übrigen EU-Mitgliedstaaten brachte folgende Ergebnisse. Die Reform erfüllt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297677
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Arbeitsrechtliche Hemmnisse für die Anreizwirkung flexibler Entgeltsysteme
Oechsler, Walter A. - 2001
Entgeltsystemen in Deutschland anhand ausgewählter aktueller Regelungen diskutiert. Dabei wird aufgezeigt, dass in den aktuellen … law existing in Germany, especially in the field of wage determination. In this paper the impact of existing labor … agreements on incentive systems in Germany is analyzed. It shows, that the centralized and dense web of regulations within the …
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The Influence of the EU Environmental Management and Auditing Scheme on Environmental Innovations and Competitiveness in Germany: An Analysis on the Basis of Case Studies and a Lar...
Hoffmann, Esther; Ankele, Kathrin; Ziegler, Andreas; … - 2003
This paper investigates the effects of the EU Environmental Management and Auditing Scheme (EMAS) on environmental innovations and competitiveness in German facilities. It comprises twelve in-depth case studies and telephone interviews with 1277 EMAS-validated facilities. The surveys show a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298132
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Cost pass-through in strategic oligopoly: Sectoral evidence for the EU ETS
Alexeeva-Talebi, Victoria - 2010
Price adjustments, particularly the cost pass-through relationships, are at the core of the analysis on how asymmetric climate change policy initiates two channels of carbon leakage: (decreasing) market shares and profit margins. Using advanced time-series techniques, this paper explores the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301693
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Unmasking the Porter hypothesis: Environmental innovations and firm-profitability
Rexhäuser, Sascha; Rammer, Christian - 2011
We examine impacts of different types of environmental innovations on firm profits. Following Porter's (1991) hypothesis that environmental regulation can improve firms' competitiveness we distinguish regulation induced and voluntary environmental innovations. We find that innovations which...
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