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Buyer Power and Innovation of Quality Products: Empirical Evidence from the German Food Sector.
Weiss, Christoph R.; Wittkopp, Antje - 2003
power affects food manufacturing firms incentives to invest in innovation of high quality food products. On the basis of a … Germany. Results of multinomial logit model show a moderate and negative impact of retailer market power on innovation of … seem to more effectively resist retailer market power in product innovation. …
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Explaining export success in the UK and German medical equipment industry
Anderton, Bob; Schultz, Siegfried - 1999
particular emphasis on product quality, innovation and skills. The firm-level case studies support the conclusions arising from … and innovation arising from UK R&D is of a high but, compared to their German counterparts, UK firms often fail to …
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Increasing resilience and security of supply production post-COVID-19: from global to regional value chains? Case studies on medical and pharmaceutical products
Grumiller, Jan; Grohs, Hannes; Reiner, Christian - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the fragility of medical product and pharmaceutical global value chains (GVCs). Against this background, debates on various policies to increase the resilience of these supply chains intensified. However, there is currently no consensus on which policies are...
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Renewable energy policy in the presence of innovation: Does government pre-commitmnt matter?
Madlener, Reinhard; Neustadt, Ilja - 2010
In a perfectly competitive market with a possibility of technological innovation we contrast guaranteed feed-in tariffs …. Specifically, we model decisions about the technological innovation with convex costs within the framework of a game …-commitment. We find that for the case of technological innovation with convex costs subsidy policies are preferable over quota …
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Regulierungsökonomische Aspekte des informatorischen Unbundling im Energiebereich
Schäffner, Daniel - 2004
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Market forces and the continent's growth problem
2009
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Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Competitiveness - Agenda for Growth and Employment in Europe
Krubaski, Edward G. - In: CESifo Forum 06 (2005) 2, pp. 36-38
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Trade Policy of Transition Economics
Moraga, Jose Luis; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2000
This paper focuses on ignored issues regarding the impact of trade reforms in transition economies. These economies are primarily characterized by a low quality of their products, large depreciations of their currencies, and a high degree of government intervention in economic activity. These...
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Dumping in a Global World
Moraga-Gonzalez, Jose Luis; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2004
Anti-dumping actions are now the trade policy of choice of developing and transition economies. To understand why these economies have increasingly applied anti-dumping laws, we build a simple theoretical model of vertical intra-industry trade and investigate the strategic incentives of...
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Anti-dumping, Intra-industry Trade and Quality Reversals
Moraga-Gonzalez, Jose Luis; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2004
We examine an export game where two firms (home and foreign), located in two differentcountries, produce vertically differentiated products. The foreign firm is the most efficientin terms of R&D costs of quality development and the foreign country is relatively larger andendowed with a...
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