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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300385
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Investment and employment adjustment after unification : some results from a macroeconometric disequilibrium model
Radowski, Daniel; Smolny, Werner; Winker, Peter - 1999
model is used to assess this development. In particular, estimation results for investment and employment adjustment after … this paper to cover also unified Germany. The results reveal that the adjustment of investment and employment can be … analysed with the same theoretical model for West and East Germany. However, the adjustment speed for investment differs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297654
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R&D and Firm Performance in a Transition Economy
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2006
We estimate the effects of R&D on firms' credit ratings and on financial distress. The main purpose is the comparison of firms in Western Germany and Eastern Germany as a transitional economy. Innovative activity has a positive impact on firm value proxied by ratings in Western Germany, but a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297541
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Management Control and Innovative Activity
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2000
This paper discusses theoretically the different incentives of managers versus firm owners to invest in innovative activities. There are opposing effects concerning R&D intensity in the manager-controlled firm. Our study on the determinants of R&D intensity presents empirical results concerning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297732
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Durable Goods, Innovation and Network Externalities
Cerquera Dussán, Daniel - 2007
We develop a model of R&D competition between an incumbent and a potential entrant with network externalities and durable goods. We show that the threat of entry eliminates the commitment problem that an incumbent may face in its R&D decision due to the goods? durability. Moreover, a potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297985
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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. Previous research has shown that the allocation of R&D project grants is rather stable regarding the pool of beneficiaries. The question is whether this participation pattern can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298803
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Evaluation of public R&D policies: A cross-country comparison
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Lopes Bento, Cindy - 2010
This study focuses on the effect of public funding on internal R&D investment and on total innovation intensity on a … whether or not governments could further foster R&D activities by extending innovation policies to currently not supported …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302597
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Netzzugang, Wettbewerb und Investitionen
Inderst, Roman; Peitz, Martin - 2011
Wir untersuchen die Rolle von Vertragstypen und Zugangsregulierung auf Innovation und Wettbewerb. In einem Duopolmodell …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304460
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Netzzugang, Wettbewerb und Investitionen
Inderst, Roman; Peitz, Martin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
Wir untersuchen die Rolle von Vertragstypen und Zugangsregulierung auf Innovation und Wettbewerb. In einem Duopolmodell …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003578
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The impact of the financial crisis on investments in innovative firms
Giebel, Marek; Kraft, Kornelius - 2015
This paper investigates the impact of the financial crisis on investment decisions in innovative versus non … more likely to suffer from the financial crisis and to reduce their investment expenditures in general. To some extent … investment growth than non-innovative firms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335977