&D investment. We use an intuitively appealing measure of firm-specific uncertainty along with panel data to show that firms invest …

on the effects of the patent stock on profitability. The data base is a representative sample of German manufacturing … patent stock has a strong and robust effect on profitability. …

if they are not. We present empirical evidence on effects of perceived threat of entry on profitability. Using … profitability is confirmed. The number and the relative size of competitors also exert considerable effects. We find no …

Theory predicts a positive relationship between market concentration and profitability in most scenarios. In empirical … and profitability. …

Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It … documents that the positive profitability differential of exporters compared to non-exporters is statistically significant …. Instead, we use a newly developed continuous treatment approach and show that exporting improves the profitability almost over …

Using a newly constructed panel dataset of German enterprises, I estimate R&D and capital investment equations for the …

This paper investigates the effect of environmental innovations on firm profitability with respect to differences … between small and medium-sized (SME) and large (LE) enterprises. Using data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel (MIP) 2015 …

&D investment. We use an intuitively appealing measure of firm-specific uncertainty along with panel data to show that firms invest …

Using a newly constructed panel dataset of German enterprises, I estimate R&D and capital investment equations for the …