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Haftungsregeln und Innovation
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2000
This paper discusses the incentives for innovation when liability is limited or not. Clearly innovative activity involves risk. On the one hand, the risk of firm owners is limited if their liability is limited. On the other hand credits will be more difficult to receive if liability is limited....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444773
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Skill composition and regional entrepreneurship : a comparative study between Germany and Portugal
Mendonça, Joana; Grimpe, Christoph - 2009
general as well as in technology- and knowledge-intensive subsectors. We compare Germany and Portugal which exhibit, though EU … results for Germany reveal exactly the opposite effect. These results suggest that both specialization and diversity theories …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003888000
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Spatial model selection and spatial knowledge spillovers : a regional view of Germany
Klarl, Torben - 2010
The aim of this paper is to introduce a new model selection mechanism for cross sectional spatial models. This method is more flexible than the approach proposed by Florax et al. (2003) since it controls for spatial dependence as well as for spatial heterogeneity. In particular, Bayesian and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922966
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Do university based regions really attract outside entrepreneurs : the case of the German biotechnology industry
Engel, Dirk (contributor); Heneric, Oliver (contributor) - 2005
The paper tests empirically the role of knowledge stocks to explain the regional distribution of Germany … only for academic founders inside as well as outside the region. In contrast, the start-up activity of non …-academic founders coming from inside or outside the region cannot be explained with knowledge intensity of the region. Our empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003114223
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Resale price maintenance and manufacturer competition for retail services
Hunold, Matthias; Muthers, Johannes - 2012
We investigate the incentives of manufacturers to use resale price maintenance (RPM) when selling products through common retailers. In our model retailers provide product specific pre-sales services. If the competitive retail margins are low, each manufacturer fixes a minimum price to induce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009529697
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Non-sequential search, competition and price dispersion in retail electricity
Gugler, Klaus; Heim, Sven; Liebensteiner, Mario - 2016
We investigate the impact of consumer search and competition on pricing strategies in Germany’s electricity retail. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446819
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The virtual location of e-tailers : evidence from a B2C e-commerce market
Härting, Julia (contributor) - 2005
An Internet retailer’s (e-tailer’s) outstanding virtual location enhances the probability of being noticed by potential customers. The notion of a virtual location for e-tailers refers to the analogy to the physical location. In the empirical analysis, an e-tailer’s Internet search engine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003051023
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Finanzierungsstrukturen im Vergleich - eine Analyse europäischer Unternehmen
Ramb, Fred - 1998
Kapitalstruktur analysiert. Für die meisten der analysierten Länder - darunter Deutschland, Frankreich, Spanien und die Niederlande … structure due to legal forms. For the most countries, including Germany, France, Spain, and the Netherland, legal form exerts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441241
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Earnings losses after non-employment increase with age
Zwick, Thomas (contributor) - 2008
This paper shows that earnings losses after unemployment increase with age. First, older employees start out with relatively high earnings in comparison to employees without employment interruptions several years before the non-employment spell. This earnings advantage turns into a strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003728393
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Heterogeneous labour markets in a microsimulation-AGE model : application to welfare reform in Germany
Boeters, Stefan (contributor); Feil, Michael (contributor) - 2008
Labour market reforms that are designed to stimulate labour supply at the lower end of the wage distribution can never be precisely restricted to affect only the target group. Spillovers to and feedback from other segments of the labour market are unavoidable and may counteract the direct...
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