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Assessing the effects of a road surfacing cartel in Switzerland
Hüschelrath, Kai; Leheyda, Nina; Beschorner, Patrick … - 2009
The paper assesses the impact of the detection of a hard-core cartel in the Swiss market for road surfacing on post-cartel competition. In addition to an investigation of supply-side factors, demand-side factors, and market prices, the paper also derives estimates of the economic effects of the...
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Concubinage or Marriage? Informal and Formal Cooperations for Innovation
Keilbach, Max; Bönte, Werner - 2004
Based on a sample of German innovating firms that contains information on formal and informal innovation cooperation between customers and suppliers, we state that firms perceive informal cooperation as being more important than formal cooperation modes. We then investigate the determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297327
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Vertical Relations Between Firms and Innovation: An Empirical Investigation of German Firms
Harabi, Najib - 1997
relations between innovating firms, suppliers and users, using data from Germany. The analysis is based on a survey conducted by … the "Center for European Economic Research" (Mannheim, Germany) among 3122 firms representing 378 different lines of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297554
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Wettbewerb der Steuersysteme in Europa - eine vergleichende Analyse am Beispiel der Region Oberrheingraben unter Einbeziehung aktueller Reformvorschläge
Eckerle, Tobias H. - 1997
Oberrheingraben und die dahinter stehenden Steuersysteme Deutschlands, Frankreichs und der Schweiz zu untersuchen und zu überprüfen … Schweiz durchweg am geringsten ist. Betrachtet man die Steuerbelastung auf Unternehmensebene, so werden deutsche … schweizerischen auszugleichen. Dagegen wäre mit Umsetzung der Vorschläge zur ?Großen Steuerreform 1999? in Deutschland eine derartige …
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External Costs of Road, Rail and Air Transport - a Bottom-Up Approach
Weinreich, Sigurd; Rennings, Klaus; Schlomann, Barbara; … - 1998
This paper aims to describe the calculation of environmental and health externalities caused by air pollutants, accidents and noise from different transport modes (road, rail, air) on the route Frankfurt-Milan. The investigation is part of the QUITS project (QUITS = Quality Indicators for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297574
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The employment impact of cleaner production on the firm level: empirical evidence from a survey in five European countries
Rennings, Klaus; Zwick, Thomas - 2001
This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering more than 1500 firms in five European countries that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297743
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Socially Responsible Investments in Germany, Switzerland and the United States: An Analysis of Investment Funds and Indices
Schröder, Michael - 2003
The aim of this study is the analysis of so called socially responsible investments (SRI). First, the performance of SRI equity investment funds and equity indices is investigated using Jensen´s alpha as performance measure. The analysis considers market timing strategies of the fund management...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298128
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Innovation, competition and incentives for R&D
Wörter, Martin; Rammer, Christian; Arvanitis, Spyros - 2010
substitutability and entry barriers due to fixed costs. Based on firm-level panel data for Germany and Switzerland we obtain consistent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300512
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What Determines the ZEW Indicator?
Hüfner, Felix P.; Lahl, David - 2003
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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Auswirkungen von Erbschaften und Schenkungen auf die Vermögensbildung privater Personen und Haushalte: Eine ökonometrische Analyse auf der Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels
Westerheide, Peter - 2004
Die Untersuchung analysiert das Sparverhalten der über 30- bis unter 50jährigen Personen bzw. Haushalte mit Haushaltsvorständen in dieser Altersgruppe in Reaktion auf erhaltene Erbschaften bzw. Transfers zu Lebzeiten. Zugrunde liegen aktuelle Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels. Mittels...
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