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Do Spillovers Stimulate Incremental or Drastic Product Innovations? Hypotheses and Evidence from German Establishment Data
Jirjahn, Uwe; Kraft, Kornelius - 2006
We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive … exert no such independent influence on drastic innovation activities. The results support the hypothesis that establishments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297531
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Are we spending too many years in school? Causal evidence of the impact of shortening secondary school duration
Büttner, Bettina; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2010
This paper analyzes the impact of shortening the duration of secondary schooling on the accumulation of human capital. In 2003, an educational policy reform was enacted in Saxony-Anhalt, a German state, providing a natural experimental setting. The thirteenth year of schooling was eliminated for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299962
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Who Chooses Whom? Syndication, Skills and Reputation
Tykvová, Tereza - 2005
Syndication, which is a joint realization of one project/one investment by several capital providers, is a long existing phenomenon that plays a central role in many financial market segments. Within this paper we develop a theoretical model focusing on the dynamic aspect of syndication, namely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297486
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Climate change and the irreversibility effect: combining expected utility and MaxiMin
Lange, Andreas - 2002
case (less weight on EU) may lead to increased first period emissions. The effect of learning possibilities on emissions is …, considering prospective learning increases today?s abatement effort, i.e. the ?irreversibility effect? holds, if the weight on EU … MaxiMin. There is, however, the possibility of a negative value of learning. It is shown that the irreversibility effect holds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298092
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Consumer search and firm strategy with multi-attribute products
Gambato, Jacopo - 2024
; this generates a search rule that accounts for learning systematically. In this search environment, a multiproduct seller …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014567496
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Search on a grid: Directed consumer search with correlated products
Gambato, Jacopo - 2024
two new attributes is found. The search paths emerging from this policy match recent evidence of consumer learning through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014567516
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Mobile applications and access to private data: The supply side of the Android ecosystem
Kesler, Reinhold; Kummer, Michael E.; Schulte, Patrick - 2017
We analyze the data collection strategies of 65,000 developers in the market for mobile applications and track 300,000 applications over four years. Many apps belong to developers with multiple apps. This fact generates variation in the privacy behaviors of the same developer for our analysis....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011781257
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Do Spillovers Stimulate Incremental or Drastic Product Innovations? Hypotheses and Evidence from German Establishment Data
Jirjahn, Uwe; Kraft, Kornelius - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive … exert no such independent influence on drastic innovation activities. The results support the hypothesis that establishments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097593
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Climate change and the irreversibility effect: combining expected utility and MaxiMin
Lange, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002
case (less weight on EU) may lead to increased first period emissions. The effect of learning possibilities on emissions is …, considering prospective learning increases today?s abatement effort, i.e. the ?irreversibility effect? holds, if the weight on EU … MaxiMin. There is, however, the possibility of a negative value of learning. It is shown that the irreversibility effect holds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097621
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Who Chooses Whom? Syndication, Skills and Reputation
Tykvová, Tereza - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
Syndication, which is a joint realization of one project/one investment by several capital providers, is a long existing phenomenon that plays a central role in many financial market segments. Within this paper we develop a theoretical model focusing on the dynamic aspect of syndication, namely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098025