comparison with the United States. It has been argued that lack of product market competition and poor corporate governance are … econometric analysis of firm performance in Germany. Based on a unique panel data set with detailed information on almost 400 … product market competition experience higher rates of productivity growth. We also find weak evidence for the notion that in …

impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S. and (3 … Germany. A differentiation between imported intermediates (efficient sourcing strategy) and final inputs (competition) reveals …In this study we use import penetration as a proxy for foreign competition in order to empirically analyze (1) the …

electricity companies and transnational competition, Chile and Brazil have only partially liberalized their electricity sector …

This paper aims to shed light on the role of technological opportunities for green innovation by studying the case of … Green ICT innovation. We test two hypotheses: (1) Firms active in low-opportunity technological areas are less innovative … Office with firm-level data from the German Innovation Panel (Mannheim Innovation Panel). The results are based on dynamic …

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 …

unclear, however, if the employment opportunities of the majority of the labour force in Germany-employees with a degree from … rich data set. The paper shows that innovation expenditures and investments in information and communication technologies …

-skilled employees and industries in Germany by a more unequal distribution of human capital intensity. In Germany, average innovation …This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 …

We analyze the impact of the probabilistic nature of patents on the functioning of Germany’s bifurcated patent …

The market launch of product innovations is the most visible output of a firm's investment in innovation activities. To … number of different ways, and optimize their innovation process. The success of a firm's innovation strategy has two … product innovation. Second, the ability to turn the market introduction of a product innovation into commercial success. While …