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Does skill-biased technical change diffuse internationally?
Schulte, Patrick - 2015
This paper studies the question whether skill-biased technical change diffuses internationally and that way contributes to the increasing relative skill demand in other countries. So far, the role of skill-biased technology diffusion has hardly been studied empirically. Using new sectoral data...
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Knowledge creates markets : the influence of entrepreneurial support and patent rights on academic entrepreneurship
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Doherr, Thorsten; Hussinger, Katrin; … - 2016 - This version: April 2016
We use an exogenous change in German Federal law to examine how entrepreneurial support and the ownership of patent rights influence academic entrepreneurship. In 2002, the German Federal Government enacted a major reform called Knowledge Creates Markets that set up new infrastructure to...
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Individual versus institutional ownership of university-discovered inventions
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Doherr, Thorsten; Hussinger, Katrin; … - 2015
We examine how the ownership of intellectual property rights influences patenting of university-discovered inventions. In 2002, Germany transferred patent rights from faculty members to their universities. To identify the effect on the volume of patenting, we exploit the researcher-level...
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University research alliances, absorptive capacity, and the contribution of startups to employment growths
Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian - 2014
This paper examines how university research alliances and other cooperative links with universities contribute to startup employment growth. We argue that “scientific absorptive capacity” at the startup is critical for reaping the benefits from university research alliances, but not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010428152
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Public research and industrial innovations in Germany
Beise, Marian; Stahl, Harald - 1998
Umsatzes mit neuen Produkten gemacht. Der Technologietransfer von den öffentlichen Forschungseinrichtungen wird dabei … dem Stichwort regionale High-Tech-Agglomerationen diskutiert wird, nicht auf den Technologietransfer aus. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441735
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Strategic pricing, market entry and competition : evidence from German electricity submarkets
Nikogosian, Vigen; Veith, Tobias - 2011
more costly option for customers who have not switched to an alternative contract yet. As most German households are served … with this contract type we follow the Limit Pricing theory and show that standard contract price could be used as an … contract price could increases the incumbent’s profit. We then analyze our theoretical findings employing data for German …
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Registered cartels in Austria : an overview
Fink, Nikolaus; Schmidt-Dengler, Philipp; Stahl, Konrad; … - 2015 - This version: 16 November 2015
Cartels were legal to a large extent in Austria until the country’s EU Accession in 1995. We examine archival material on registered horizontal cartels to learn about their inner working. Applying content analysis to legally binding cartel contracts, we comprehensively document different...
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Efficient contracts for government intervention in promoting next generation communications networks
Briglauer, Wolfgang; Holzleitner, Christian - 2014
intervention. We contend, however, that the current contract practice of fixing ex ante targets for network expansion is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258770
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Registered cartels in Austria : coding protocol
Fink, Nikolaus; Schmidt-Dengler, Philipp; Stahl, Konrad; … - 2014
In the period following WW II. until the country accessed the European Union, cartels were legalized in Austria, upon registration with the Austrian Cartel Court. We obtained access to the registration data, and scanned them all towards a microeconomic analysis of contracting behavior between...
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Contract design with limited commitment
Gretschko, Vitali; Wambach, Achim - 2018
We consider the problem of a principal who wishes to contract with a privately informed agent and is not able to commit … renegotiate the resulting contract without cost by proposing a new mechanism any number of times. We provide a general …
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