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The influence of strategic patenting on companies' patent portfolios
Cremers, Katrin; Müller, Elisabeth - 2008
This paper analyses whether strategic motives for patenting influence the characteristics of companies' patent portfolios. We use the number of citations and oppositions to represent these characteristics. The investigation is based on survey and patent data from German companies. We find clear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003888732
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Inventions under Siege? : the impact of technology competition on licensing
Grimpe, Christoph; Hussinger, Katrin - 2009
In recent years, firms have increasingly contributed to and been confronted with a patent landscape characterized by numerous but marginal inventions, overlapping claims and patent fences. Literature suggests that both the fragmentation of ownership and the threat of a firm's patent applications...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003871201
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The influence of strategic patenting on companies' patent portfolios
Blind, Knut (contributor); Cremers, Katrin (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper analyses whether strategic motives for patenting influence the characteristics of companies' patent portfolios. We use the number of citations and oppositions to represent these characteristics. The investigation is based on survey and patent data from German companies. We find clear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003447748
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Do pay-as-bid auctions favor collusion? : evidence from Germany’s market for reserve power
Heim, Sven; Goetz, Georg - 2013
We analyze a drastic price increase in the German auction market for reserve power, which did not appear to be driven by increased costs. Studying the market structure and individual bidding strategies, we find evidence for collusive behavior in an environment with repeated auctions, pivotal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009751726
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Rent sharing to control non-cartel supply in the German cement market
Harrington, Joseph Emmett; Hüschelrath, Kai; … - 2016
A challenge for many cartels is avoiding a destabilizing increase in non-cartel supply in response to having raised price. In the case of the German cement cartel that operated over 1991-2002, the primary source of non-cartel supply was imports from Eastern European cement manufacturers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443774
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The discontent cartel member and cartel collapse : the case of the German cement cartel
Harrington, Joseph Emmett; Hüschelrath, Kai; … - 2014
We hypothesize a particular source of cartel instability and explore its relevance to understanding cartel dynamics. The cartel instability is rooted in the observation that, upon cartel formation, the relative positions of firms are often fixed which may lead some growthconscious members to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010424815
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Book-tax conformity : empirical evidence from Germany
Zinn, Benedikt; Spengel, Christoph - 2012
-tax differences in Germany. For the first time, the data set enables us to evaluate the extent to which financial and tax accounting … differ in Germany in the most accurate manner. Despite the close link between financial and tax accounting in Germany, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009572450
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Gender earnings gap in German firms : the impact of firm characteristics and institutions
Heinze, Anja (contributor); Wolf, Elke (contributor) - 2006
Germany. The innovation of our research is that we do not just compare average male and female wages (of specific groups of … than the average overall GWG. Furthermore, we can show that firms with formalized co-determination (works council) and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003314702
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Active owners and the failure of newly adopted works councils
Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2013
codetermination because it reduces the utility they gain from being the ultimate bosses within the establishment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010194499
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Productivity and distribution effects of codetermination in an efficient bargaining
Kraft, Kornelius - 2017
Codetermination can be regarded as an extreme regulatory intervention of the legislator in the labor market which might … German data and includes years before and after the extension of German codetermination law in 1976. The estimates determine … the productivity of labor and relative bargaining power of capital and labor. It turns out that codetermination does not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011738981