China’s development model faces an external constraint that could cause an economic hard landing. China has become a global manufacturing powerhouse, and its size now renders its export-led growth strategy unsustainable. China relies on the U.S. market, but the scale of its exports is...

This paper aims to investigate the relationship between economic growth, institutional quality and financial development whitin a sample of middle-income countries. We generate three hypothesis on the potential relationships between those three dimensions by reviewing the existing literature and...

Computational Chemistry Technologien (CCT) stellen Technologien dar, mit deren Hilfe molekulare Systeme und deren Verhalten beschrieben werden können. Es handelt sich um wissensintensive und synergetische F&E-Prozesstechnologien, die keiner bisher erforschten Technologieklasse zugeordnet werden...

Eine Analyse des Wirtschaftsstandortes Deutschland zeigt die enorme Bedeutung von Forschung und Entwicklung (FuE) sowie Ausbildung und Qualifikation für die Sicherung der technologischen Leistungs- und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit Deutschlands im globalen Wettbewerb. Die Ausgaben für Forschung und...

Die Dissertation beleuchtet aus ?konomischer Sicht die Thematik des Klimawandels mit dem Ziel, Ans?tze einer technologischen Kooperation zu identifizieren, die zu einer Verbesserung der Nutzen-Kosten-Relation in internationalen Klimaschutzverhandlungen beitragen k?nnten. Besonderer Wert wird...

Agronomists rely increasingly on computers, and more than half of all producers have access to computers. Increasing farm computer ownership has resulted in intensified efforts to transfer new software technologies to producers; however, little is known about how satisfied producers are with...

In this paper we relate university licensing revenues to both university research expenditures and characteristics of the university and the university technology transfer office. We apply the Hausman-Taylor estimator for panel data with time-invariant explanatory variables and the...

This paper examines the preferences of a foreign firm and awelfare-maximizing host country government over two modes of foreigndirect investment (FDI): de novo entry by the foreign firm andacquisition of the domestic incumbent. Two crucial features of the modelare the presence of network...