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Private incentives to innovate : interplay of new products and brand-name reputation

Leheyda, Nina (contributor) - 2008

This paper studies the introduction of new products (increase in product variety) in the automobile industry. The focus is on the two sources of market power that may allow the firms to get higher profits (and, thus, recoup investments): new products and brand-name reputation. The effects of new...

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Measuring patent quality and national technological capacity in cross-country comparison

Boeing, Philipp; Müller, Elisabeth - 2016

China recently surpassed the USA as the greatest global source of patent applications. However, without internationally comparable measures of patent quality it remains questionable whether China's patent expansion constitutes the rise of a new technological superpower. Our novel quality index...

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ICT and economic growth : comparing developing, emerging and developed countries

Niebel, Thomas - 2014

This paper analyzes the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on economic growth in developing, emerging and developed countries. It is based on a sample of 59 countries for the period 1995 to 2010. Various panel data regressions confirm the positive relationship between ICT...

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Multidimensional affluence in income and wealth in the eurozone : a cross country comparison using the HFCS

Kontbay-Busun, Sine; Peichl, Andreas - 2014

This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a multidimensional setting by considering the joint...

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The effective tax burden of companies and on highly skilled manpower : tax policy strategies in a globalized economy

Elschner, Christina; Lammersen, Lothar; Overesch, Michael; … - 2005

Company taxes and taxes on highly skilled labour both influence the attractiveness of a particular region as a location for investment. We measure the effective tax burden on capital investment and on highly qualified labour in 33 locations across Europe and the United States. We then correlate...

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The effect of relative age in the first grade of primary school on long-Term scholastic results : international comparative evidence using PISA 2003

Sprietsma, Maresa (contributor) - 2007

In this paper, we estimate the effect of pupil's relative age within the first grade of primary school on math and reading test scores at age 15. The main objective is to evaluate the long-term causal effect of relative age in the first grades of primary school on pupil's test in 16 different...

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Education and unemployment : a French-German comparison

Lauer, Charlotte - 2003

This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based … examines the impact of education on both risk components. France faces a higher unemployment rate than West-Germany, due to a … higher risk of entering unemployment whereas the risk, when unemployed, of not getting reemployed is lower than in Germany …

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Employment of mothers after childbirth : French-German comparison

Lauer, Charlotte; Mühlenweg, Andrea M. - 2003

mothers are higher in France than in Germany. Since the sample of mothers deciding on employment after a child is born might … characteristics appear to affect both the birth and the employment decisions in a different way in France and Germany. Some of the …

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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

impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S. and (3 … covering the period from 1984-2010 for Germany respectively 1992-2011 for the U.S. and apply system GMM in order to solve … Germany. A differentiation between imported intermediates (efficient sourcing strategy) and final inputs (competition) reveals …

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Empirical macromodels under test : a comparative simulation study of the employment effects of a revenue neutral cut in social security contributions

Buscher, Herbert S.; Buslei, Hermann; Göggelmann, Klaus; … - 1998 - Preliminary version

In the paper we simulate a revenue-neutral cut in the social security contribution rate using five different types of macro- / microeconomic models, namely two models based on time-series data where the labour market is modelled basically demand oriented, two models of the class of computable...

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