Este trabajo trata de comprobar si la eficiencia productiva del Grupo Telefónica S.A. de España ha mejorado luego de ser privatizada. Se ha utilizado este caso por ser una empresa representativa en la industria de las telecomunicaciones globales. La evidencia empírica indica que las empresas...

This work shows if the productive efficiency of the Group Telefónica S.A. of Spain it has improved after being privatized. This case has been used to be a representative company in the industry of the global telecommunications. The empiric evidence indicates that the companies of this sector...

This article presents a brief review of the literature on the effect of supermarkets on productivity, employment, the survival of small retailers, prices, and competition in retailing. The following stylized facts emerge: (1) the retail sector has undergone a major concentration around the...

Understanding the microeconomic details of technological catch-up processes offers great potential for informing both innovation economics and development policy. We study the economic transition of the PR China from an agrarian country to a high-tech economy as one example for such a case. It...

Basierend auf den Perspektiven, wie Netzwerke Sozialkapital schaffen, analysiert diese Arbeit die Positionen, die Venture Capital Gesellschaften (VCG) in ihrem Syndizierungsnetzwerk innehaben und bestimmt die Auswirkung von Netzwerkpositionen auf die Deal Flow Quantität und Qualität. Der...

This dissertation comprises five different stand-alone research papers that were written as part of the doctoral program in “Quantitative Economics and Finance” at the University of Konstanz within the period of January 2004 and January 2008. All of the papers deal with an empirical analysis...

The purpose of this thesis, which is entitled 'Bioentrepreneurship in Germany', is to study important issues of entrepreneurship research in the specific context of the biotechnology industry. The thesis consists of five empirical studies which cover such diverse topics as financing strategies,...

The economic cost of carbon pricing depends on the ability and incentives of firms to switch towards cleaner fuels. Yet, many fundamental economic forces that drive firms' decisions to use different fuels are unobserved, causing significant uncertainty over the effectiveness of carbon policies....