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Drivers for international innovation activities in developed and emerging countries

Schmiele, Anja - 2009

This paper aims to shed light on firm specific drivers that lead firms to internationalise their innovation activities. The paper draws a comprehensive picture of driving forces by including firm capabilities, characteristics of the firm’s competitive environment and the influence of...

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Foreign competition and executive compensation in the manufacturing industry : a comparison between Germany and the U.S.

Dyballa, Katharina; Kraft, Kornelius - 2018

In this study we use import penetration as a proxy for foreign competition in order to empirically analyze (1) the impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S. and (3) whether the impact of import penetration is driven by...

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Cost pass-through in strategic oligopoly : sectoral evidence for the EU ETS

Alexeeva-Talebi, Victoria - 2010

Price adjustments, particularly the cost pass-through relationships, are at the core of the analysis on how asymmetric climate change policy initiates two channels of carbon leakage: (decreasing) market shares and profit margins. Using advanced time-series techniques, this paper explores the...

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Understanding the competitiveness implications of future phases of EU ETS on the industrial sectors

Oberndorfer, Ulrich; Alexeeva-Talebi, Victoria; … - 2010

In making key decisions for the future phases of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), policy makers need to fully understand the competitiveness implications of these decisions on industrial sectors. In this paper, we conduct an empirical analysis of cost pass-through ability of...

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Global sensing and sensibility : a multi-stage matching assessment of competitive advantage from foreign sources of innovation

Sofka, Wolfgang (contributor); … - 2006

We focus on one of the core competitive capabilities of modern firms: the ability to deliver successful innovations in a globalized environment. Companies literally find themselves confronted with a world of ideas. The challenge remains to decide which impulses should be on top of the list and...

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Credit constraints, energy management practices, and investments in energy saving technologies : German manufacturing in close-up

Löschel, Andreas; Lutz, Benjamin Johannes; Massier, Philipp - 2017

of energy-related topics, and the investments in energy saving technologies. A better understanding of firms' investment … statistically significant positive relationship with investment decisions on energy saving technologies for production processes and …

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Does public scientific research complement industry R & D investment? : The case of NIH supported basic and clinical research and pharmaceutical industry R & D

Toole, Andrew A. (contributor) - 2005

This research investigates the hypothesis that publicly funded scientific research complements private R&D investment … in the pharmaceutical industry. New microlevel data on public research investment by the U.S. National Institutes of … explaining pharmaceutical R&D investment. Using a panel of therapeutic classes observed over eighteen years, the analysis finds …

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Effective marginal tax rates for US investors in Germany and Europe : an analysis of recent tax reforms in Germany

Spengel, Christoph - 1999

In this paper the impact of the corporate tax systems of the 15 EU-member states on the investment and the financing … which can affect cross-border location, investment and financing decisions. Moreover, recent reform proposals in Germany are … likely to have an impact both on investment patterns and financing decisions of US multinationals in Germany. …

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The impact of thin-capitalization rules on multinationals' financing and investment decisions

Büttner, Thiess; Overesch, Michael; Schreiber, Ulrich; … - 2006

This paper analyzes the role of Thin-Capitalization rules for capital structure choice and investment decisions of … investment but also their tax-sensitivity. An empirical investigation of leverage and investment reported for affiliates of …. While Thin-Capitalization rules are found to be effective in restricting debt finance, investment is found to be more …

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The effects of multinationals' profit shifting activities on real investments

Overesch, Michael (contributor) - 2007

This paper investigates whether the size of multinational' real investments in a high-tax country is affected by profit shifting activities. A simple theoretical analysis shows that tax rates abroad impact the cost of capital in the presence of profit shifting activities of multinational...

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