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Climate policy and the problem of competitiveness : border tax adjustments or integrated emission trading?
Alexeeva-Talebi, Victoria (contributor);  … - 2008
In the absence of an international agreement on climate policy, unilateral carbon abatement creates two problems: It tends to have a detrimental effect on domestic competitiveness, and it leads to an increase in carbon emissions abroad (leakage). This paper analyses two policies that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003751284
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Industrial change, stability of relative earnings, and substitution of unskilled labor in West-Germany
Steiner, Viktor; Mohr, Robert D. - 1998
We analyze the dramatic decline of the employment share of unskilled labor in the West German economy, in particular its relation to the relatively rigid earnings structure. We find that the substitution elasticity between unskilled and skilled labor is rather low in most sectors of the economy....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441629
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Does energy policy hurt international competitiveness of firms? : a comparative study for Germany, Switzerland and Austria
Rammer, Christian; Gottschalk, Sandra; Peneder, Michael; … - 2016
-level data from three countries with similar industry structure but different energy policies: Germany, Switzerland, and Austria …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011561938
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011897992
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Effektive Steuerbelastung der grenzüberschreitenden Geschäftstätigkeit nach den Vorschlägen zur Reform der Unternehmensbesteuerung
Spengel, Christoph - 2000
Das Steuersenkungsgesetz stellt das größte Reformvorhaben auf dem Gebiet der direkten Steuern in Deutschland seit der … internationalen Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Unternehmen am Standort Deutschland, Stärkung der Attraktivität des Standorts Deutschland für … (King-Fullerton-Ansatz) für Deutschland und die übrigen EU-Mitgliedstaaten brachte folgende Ergebnisse. Die Reform erfüllt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444519
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Arbeitsrechtliche Hemmnisse für die Anreizwirkung flexibler Entgeltsysteme
Oechsler, Walter A. - 2001
Entgeltsystemen in Deutschland anhand ausgewählter aktueller Regelungen diskutiert. Dabei wird aufgezeigt, dass in den aktuellen … law existing in Germany, especially in the field of wage determination. In this paper the impact of existing labor … agreements on incentive systems in Germany is analyzed. It shows, that the centralized and dense web of regulations within the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445951
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The influence of the EU Environmental Management and Auditing Scheme on environmental innovations and competitiveness in Germany : an analysis on the basis of case studies and a la...
Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas; Ankele, Kathrin; … - 2003
This paper investigates the effects of the EU Environmental Management and Auditing Scheme (EMAS) on environmental innovations and competitiveness in German facilities. It comprises twelve in-depth case studies and telephone interviews with 1277 EMAS-validated facilities. The surveys show a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448397
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Local user-producer interaction in innovation and export performance of firms
Beise, Marian (contributor); Rammer, Christian (contributor) - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001822531
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Cost pass-through in strategic oligopoly : sectoral evidence for the EU ETS
Alexeeva-Talebi, Victoria - 2010
die vorhandenen Daten für Deutschland es erlauben und betrachtet die Industriezweige Papier und Zellstoff, Chemie, Gummi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008652544
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Unmasking the Porter hypothesis : environmental innovations and firm-profitability
Rexhäuser, Sascha; Rammer, Christian - 2011
We examine impacts of different types of environmental innovations on firm profits. Following Porter’s (1991) hypothesis that environmental regulation can improve firms’ competitiveness we distinguish regulation induced and voluntary environmental innovations. We find that innovations which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009129823