challenges for its sustainability. Therefore, recently suggested reform options are discussed at the end of the paper showing …

term effects of regulation on innovation. Second, whether the impact of different types of regulation differ by type of the … Community Innovation Survey 2009, in which companies were asked to cite the respective regulations to be responsive for the … regulation on innovation. Furthermore, different types of regulations varied with respect to their impact on several …

realization of an environmental product and a process innovation, indeed only compared with the realization of no environmental … innovation. …

-term sustainability. We argue that the latest reforms have moved pension provision in Germany in principle from a defined benefit to a …

This paper analyses Greek fiscal sustainability from a retrospective and a prospective view. Implications of Greek … fiscal (un)sustainability are discussed. In the empirical analysis econometric testing of Greek government solvency during …

market mechanism. As a response, public instruments have been implemented to stimulate private innovation activities. The … Establishment Panel and apply various microeconometric methods to estimate the effect of public measures on innovation activities of …

This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data … set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994?2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at … innovation experience, the results further highlight the important role of knowledge provided by skilled employees and unobserved …

In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … using data from the 1997 wave of the Mannheim Innovation Panel in the Service Sector. There is a lot of support for the … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only …

rich data set. The paper shows that innovation expenditures and investments in information and communication technologies …