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Does mandatory labeling of genetically modified food grant consumers the right to know? : evidence from an economic experiment
Dannenberg, Astrid (contributor); Scatasta, Sara (contributor) - 2008
experimental auctions conducted with a sample of the resident population of Mannheim, Germany, we show that the quality of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003721776
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What old stagers could teach us : examining age complementarities in regional innovation systems
Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry - 2014
Germany using a flexible knowledge production function and accounting for potential endogeneity of the regional workforce … demographic aging mainly increasing the older workforce and shrinking the younger one, our results imply that innovation levels in … of the innovation gap across German regions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010384982
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Young, open and international : the impact of search strategies on the internationalization of new ventures
Zimmermann, Jörg; Grimpe, Christoph; Sofka, Wolfgang - 2009
internationalization process. We contribute to this research stream by establishing theoretical links with the emerging open innovation …, universities or specialized suppliers. Based on a sample of more than 2,500 firms in Germany we contrast young and mature firms … with regard to the effect of open innovation strategies on internationalization performance. Our results show that both the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824062
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Separating wheat and chaff: age-specific staffing strategies and innovative performance at the firm level
Frosch, Katharina; Goebel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2011 - This version: June 2011
establishments. Finally, we do not find evidence that a youth-centred human resource strategy (always) fosters innovation …. -- Workforce aging ; staffing strategies ; innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009232253
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Cognition, optimism and the formation of age-dependent survival beliefs
Grevenbrock, Nils; Groneck, Max; Ludwig, Alexander; … - 2018
This paper investigates the roles psychological biases play in empirically estimated deviations between subjective survival beliefs (SSBs) and objective survival probabilities (OSPs). We model deviations between SSBs and OSPs through age-dependent inverse S-shaped probability weighting functions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816303
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Allocation of human capital and innovation at the frontier : firm-level evidence on Germany and the Netherlands
Bartelsmann, Eric; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - 2014
This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 …-skilled employees and industries in Germany by a more unequal distribution of human capital intensity. In Germany, average innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010405991
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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 paper examines the links between internationalisation, innovation and productivity in service enterprises. For … this purpose, we use micro data from the Community Innovation Survey 2008 in Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and … higher productivity. Among the innovation types that we consider, the largest productivity returns were found for marketing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011792372
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Selling service plans to differentially informed customers
Inderst, Roman (contributor); Peitz, Martin (contributor) - 2008
We characterize a monopolist's optimal offer of service plans when only informed customers know already at the contracting stage whether their demand is high or low, while uninformed customers may learn their demand only after incurring some costs, if at all. While informed customers purchase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794017
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Consumption and nutrition : age - intake profiles for Czechoslovakia 1989-1992
Miquel, Ruth; Laisney, François - 2000
This paper provides non-parametric estimates of the relation between nutrient intake and age for Czechoslovak individuals, as a function of characteristics of both the individual and the household she lives in, on the basis of household purchases. Results show no significant difference between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445193
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Green innovations and organizational change : making better use of environmental technology
Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - 2014 - This version - February 2014
This study investigates productivity effects to firms introducing new environmental technologies. The literature on … within-firm organisational change and productivity suggests that firms can get higher productivity effects from adopting new … firms located in Germany. The adoption of CO2 reducing and sustainable technologies innovations is associated with lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238378