Drawing from confidential firm-level balance sheets for 17 European countries (13 Euro-Area), the paper documents the newly expanded database of cross-country comparable competitiveness-related indicators built by the Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet). The new database provides...

Nach den Ergebnissen des neueste ifo Investitionstests bei den deutschen Leasinggesellschaften konnte das Neugeschäft mit Mobilien 2003 um 2,1% und 2004 um etwa 5% gesteigert werden, während das Immobilien-Leasing zurückging (2003: - 16%; 2004: - 20%). Vom Potential her könnten die...

Die kürzlich von ERECO veröffentlichten European Regional Prospects“ zeigen die ökonomischen Perspektiven der europäischen Stadtregionen für den Zeithorizont bis 2006 auf. Treibende Kraft hinter der Wirtschaftsentwicklung sind die marktbestimmten Dienstleistungen. Eine besonders...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between a firm's R&D expenditures considered as an investment in knowledge, and its productivity, looking at sectoral peculiarities which may emerge; to this end, we use a large unique longitudinal database consisting of 1,809 US and...

Drawing from confidential firm-level balance sheets for 17 European countries (13 Euro-Area), the paper documents the newly expanded database of cross-country comparable competitivenessrelated indicators built by the Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet). The new database provides...

One of the top priorities to improve the European Union's growth performance is the creation ofsingle market for services. The directive on services adopted by the Parliament and the Council by the end of 2006 aims at removing barriers to the free movement of service providers on the internal...

This paper examines the relationship between foreign ownership and productivity, paying particular attention to two issues neglected in the existing literature Ö the role of multinationals in service sectors and the importance of R&D activity conducted by foreign multinationals. We review...

This study focuses on ex ante performance of domestic and foreign takeover targets in Germany, one of the most important FDI inflow destinations worldwide. Using a new database from German official statistics, unconditional comparisons as well as binary response model estimations of takeover...