on the effects of the patent stock on profitability. The data base is a representative sample of German manufacturing … patent stock has a strong and robust effect on profitability. …

leakage of knowledge in an industry will negatively affect profitability. This paper presents the results of an empirical … study on the effects of outgoing and incoming spillovers on firms? profitability. It turns out that the expected asymmetry …

if they are not. We present empirical evidence on effects of perceived threat of entry on profitability. Using … profitability is confirmed. The number and the relative size of competitors also exert considerable effects. We find no …

Theory predicts a positive relationship between market concentration and profitability in most scenarios. In empirical … and profitability. …

leakage of knowledge in an industry will negatively affect profitability. This paper presents the results of an empirical … study on the effects of outgoing and incoming spillovers on firms’ profitability. It turns out that the expected asymmetry …

estimate the impacts of minimum wages on market entries and exits and firms’ profitability. We find significant effects for … competition for this group of firms and helped them to increase profitability. The increasing share of sole traders may indicate …