This paper investigates the effects of Greece's European Union (EU) accession and European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) entry, as well as R&D intensity and industry concentration on job creation and job destruction in the Greek manufacturing sector. The study is based on firm-level economic...

We examine the diffusion of steam technology across British counties during the eighteenth century. First, we provide new estimates for the regional variations in the timing, pace and extent of usage of steam engines. Our main data source is an updated version of the list of steam engines...

Viele kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) können Forschung und Entwicklung (FuE) nicht allein aus Eigenmitteln finanzieren. Die Fremdfinanzierung risikoreicher FuE-Projekte mit Krediten ist ihnen aber auch nur begrenzt möglich. Die Förderprogramme des Bundes, der Länder und der EU sind...

Die Innovationspolitik des Bundes und der Länder bietet dem Mittelstand ein breites Spektrum an Programmen zur Stärkung von Forschung und Entwicklung der kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen und ist besonders auf den Wissenstransfer ausgerichtet. In den letzten Jahren wurden die Programme...

Verdoorn's law refers to a statistical relationship between the long-run growth rate of labour productivity and the growth rate of output, usually for the manufacturing sector. Since the sixties this relationship has been examined in a large number of studies using a wide variety of data sets...

Die Wirtschaft der Eurozone ist stark auf forschungsintensive Industrien spezialisiert. In den einzelnen Euroländern ist die Bedeutung dieser Branchen sehr unterschiedlich, besonders groß ist sie in Deutschland. Anders als in der aktuellen Diskussion zum Teil unterstellt, hat die Einführung...

Deriving a functional form for a series of prices over time is difficult. It is common to assume some linearly estimable form for prediction purposes. While this can produce accurate short run forecasts it fails to identify longer trends and patterns that may exist in financial data....

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effects of economic integration among countries on firms investment decisions when such decisions are taken strategically. It is shown that, in this context, the traditional "tariff jumping" argument is not always applicable and that localisation...

Most of Business Excellence – Total Quality models provide a static view and processing of Total Quality issues. This paper proposes a system of Business Excellence taking into consideration: current European practices of Total Quality and competitiveness, a modular, open architecture like...

This paper examines the functional relationships between income inequality, economic factors, institutions, and Kuznets' inverted-U hypothesis. A model that incorporates interactive as well as direct effects of several factors to capture their combined effect on inequality is developed. The...