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The effect of institutional ownership on firm innovation : evidence from Chinese listed firms
Rong, Zhao; Wu, Xiaokai; Boeing, Philipp - 2017
Monitoring by institutional investors can act as an important mechanism to promote firm innovation. By investigating Chinese listed firms' patenting between 2002 and 2011, we find that the presence of institutional investors enhances firm innovation. Consistent with the monitoring view, we...
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Linkages between international securitized real estate markets : further evidence from time-varying and stochastic cointegration
Schindler, Felix; Voronkova, Svitlana - 2010
bivariate and multivariate tests for cointegration. While the topic has been analyzed in previous studies such as Gallo and … results from different cointegration methodologies and explicitly control for instability in cointegration relationships and … covering 20 years. In line with previous studies, the empirical results indicate several cointegration relationships between …
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Do private equity owners increase risk of financial distress and bankruptcy?
Tykvová, Tereza; Borell, Mariela - 2011
There is some controversy on the key sources of success in the private equity model and on how this business model affects the portfolio companies. We investigate financial distress risks of European companies around the buyout event in the period between 2000 and 2008. In addition, we analyze...
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Money for novelty : the role of venture capital investments for innovation in young technology-based firms
Heger, Diana - 2013
This paper examines the role of venture capital on a firm's innovation activities by using a data set of German technology-based firms founded between 1996 and 2005. Innovation is proxied by patent counts and an index of innovativeness which reflects the degree to which a young firm has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010193833
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How clean is clean? : incremental versus radical technological change in coal-fired power plants
Rennings, Klaus; Markewitz, Peter; Vögele, Stefan - 2009
In the discussion on innovations for sustainable development, radical innovations are frequently called for in order that the transformation of society to a system perceived as sustainable can succeed. The reason given for this is the greater environmental efficiency of these innovations. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003835112
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Does social software support service innovation?
Meyer, Jenny - 2009
Recent Internet technologies and web-based applications, such as social software, are being increasingly applied in firms. Social software can be employed for knowledge management and for external communication enabling access to internal and external knowledge. Knowledge in turn constitutes one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003880928
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Increasing energy and resource efficiency through innovation : an explorative analysis using innovation survey data
Rennings, Klaus; Rammer, Christian - 2009
Energy and resource efficiency innovations (EREIs) are often seen as win-win opportunities for both the economic and the environmental performance of firms. It is thus worth asking how the innovation activities and performance of firms with regard to energy and resource efficiency look like: Do...
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Mobile network interconnection and investments
Veith, Tobias - 2009
Abstract In markets with competing interconnected networks like mobile telecommunication markets investments affect the investor’s and also any competitors’ profits. In a theoretical model it is shown that cost-reducing investments reduce the investor’s termination rates and increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003902948
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European telecommunication regulation : effects on telecommunication providers
Veith, Tobias - 2010
This paper considers the impact of European telecom regulation on the value of affected companies. Employing a repeating ARGARCH model, I compare the effect of three types of regulation which are categorized based on the addressed subject, i.e. cross-market, country-specific and company-specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008701352
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Industry funding of university research and scientific productivity
Hottenrott, Hanna; Thorwarth, Susanne - 2010
University research provides valuable inputs to industrial innovation. It is therefore not surprising that private sector firms increasingly seek direct access through funding public R&D. This development, however, spurred concerns about possible negative long-run effects on scientific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008796153