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Estimating the benefits of R&D subsidies for Germany

Koehler, Mila - 2018

In Germany, R&D subsidies are an important tool to support innovation in the private sector. This paper studies the … government, the estimated average social rate of return is 34% for Germany in the period 1994 to 2011. Thereby effects on firm … decision in Germany remained remarkably stable over time, and that application costs as well as the marginal profitability of …

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Internationalisation, innovation and productivity in services : evidence from Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom

Peters, Bettina; Riley, Rebecca R.; Siedschlag, Iulia; … - 2018

this purpose, we use micro data from the Community Innovation Survey 2008 in Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and …

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Incentive regulation : evidence from German electricity networks

Hellwig, Michael; Schober, Dominik; Cabral, Luís M. B. - 2018

We propose a difference-in-differences (DiD) approach to estimate the impact of incentives on cost reduction. We show theoretically, and estimate empirically, that German electricity distribution system operators (DSOs) incur higher costs when subject to a lower-powered regulation mechanism. The...

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Energy transition in Germany and regional spillovers : what triggers the diffusion of renewable energy in firms?

Horbach, Jens; Rammer, Christian - 2017

a unique database combining the Community Innovation Survey 2014 for Germany and NUTS 3 data on renewable energy plants …

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Jobs, crime, and votes : a short-run evaluation of the refugee crisis in Germany

Gehrsitz, Markus; Ungerer, Martin - 2018

Millions of refugees made their way to Europe between 2014 and 2015, with over one million arriving in Germany alone …

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Unemployment effects of the German minimum wage in an equilibrium job search model

Blömer, Maximilian J.; Gürtzgen, Nicole; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2018

We structurally estimate an equilibrium search model using German administrative data and use this for counterfactual analyses of a uniform minimum wage. The model with worker and firm heterogeneity does not restrict the sign of employment effects a priori and allows for different job offer...

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Do digital information technologies help unemployed job seekers find a job? : evidence from the broadband internet expansion in Germany

Gürtzgen, Nicole; Diegmann, André; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2018

unemployed in Germany. We address endogeneity by exploiting technological peculiarities in the network that affected the roll …

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Inequality of educational opportunities and the role of learning intensity : evidence from a quasi-experiment in Germany

Camarero Garcia, Sebastian - 2018

Over the 2000s, many federal states in Germany shortened the duration of secondary school by one year while keeping the …

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The distribution of material footprints in Germany

Pothen, Frank; Tovar Reaños, Miguel Angel - 2018

Germany. Material footprints are defined as the amount of biomass, minerals, and fossil fuels extracted to produce the goods …

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Deregulation and the determinants of entry : evidence from the German interurban bus industry

Dürr, Niklas S.; Hüschelrath, Kai - 2016

Two years after the deregulation of the German interurban bus industry in January 2013, two new entrants emerged as market leaders: MeinFernbus (MFB) and FlixBus (FB). We use a comprehensive route-level data set to investigate the determinants of route entry for both providers. Applying survival...

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