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The impact of informational costs in quantity regulation of pollutants. The case of the European Emissions Trading Scheme
Heindl, Peter - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
There is extreme heterogeneity of firms regulated under the European Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) in terms of emissions evels and employed technology. We present a model that shows that behavior of firms under quantity regulation can differ strongly, dependent on the characteristics of the...
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Intangible assets and firm-level productivity
Crass, Dirk; Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
Firms invest huge amounts into intangible assets. This paper explores to which extent different kinds of intangible assets are conducive to firm-level productivity. Our study contributes to the literature by simultaneously comparing productivity effects of innovative capital, human capital,...
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Tax planning of R&D intensive multinationals
Heckemeyer, Jost H.; Richter, Katharina; Spengel, Christoph - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
The allocation of management and control in the business decision process finds expression in the coordination intensity between agents in the firm. We develop and test a theory, based on the organizational design literature, for the intensity in which the tax department strives to coordinate...
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Competition and trust: Evidence from German car manufacturers
Felli, Leonardo; Koenen, Johannes; Stahl, Konrad O. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
We explore the determinants and effects of trust relationships between upstream suppliers and downstream producers. Using unique survey data on individual supplier-buyer relationships in the German automotive industry, we show, by means of different measures of supplier-buyer trust, that higher...
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Minimum wages and competition: The case of the German roofing sector
Kraft, Kornelius; Rammer, Christian; Gottschalk, Sandra - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
wages. As a control industry we take the plumbing sector, which shows a similar market structure and demand trend but is not … estimate the impacts of minimum wages on market entries and exits and firms' profitability. We find significant effects for … East Germany which point to a substantial shift in industry structure. Minimum wages decreased both market entries and …
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Bargaining in vertical relationships and suppliers' R&D profitability
Köhler, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
&D investments. Studies on the relationship between R&D and firm profitability mostly concentrate on the impact of horizontal market … vertical relationships, the crucial determinants of a supplier's bargaining power are identified as the market position and the … supplier depends completely on the largest three buyers and does hold an average market share. Contrastingly, a monopolist R …
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Backwards integration and strategic delegation
Hunold, Matthias; Röller, Lars-Hendrik; Stahl, Konrad - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
We analyze the effects of downstream firms' acquisition of pure cash flow rights in an efficient upstream supplier when all firms compete in prices. With an acquisition, downstream firms internalize the effects of their actions on their rivals' sales. Double marginalization is enhanced. Whereas...
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Innovationen, Anlageinvestitionen und immaterielle Investitionen
Rammer, Christian; Köhler, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Beziehung verschiedener Konzepte von investiven Ausgaben in Unternehmen, ihre Verbindung zu Innovationen und die Faktoren, die Innovations- und Investitionsentscheidungen von Unternehmen beeinflussen. Neben dem traditionellen Investitionsbegriff, der sich...
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Mobile information and communication technologies, flexible work organization and labor productivity: Firm-level evidence
Viete, Steffen; Erdsiek, Daniel - 2015
Mobile information and communication technologies (ICT) have started to diffuse rapidly in the business sector. This study tests for the complementarity between the use of mobile ICT and organizational practices providing workplace flexibility. We hypothesize that mobile ICT can create value if...
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Investitionsschwäche oder Strukturverschiebung der Investitionstätigkeit? Zur Rolle immaterieller Investitionen für die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Unternehmen
Rammer, Christian; Peters, Bettina - 2016
Der Beitrag untersucht, inwieweit hinter der oft konstatierten Investitionsschwäche der europäischen Wirtschaft eine Strukturverschiebung von materiellen zu immateriellen Investitionen steht. Da letztere nur zum Teil unter den Investitionsbegriff der Volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnung...
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