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Recent theoretical contributions provide conflicting predictions about the effects of product market competition on firms' organizational choices. This paper uses a rich firm-product-level panel data set of Indian manufacturing firms to analyze the relationship between import competition and...
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basis of the dataset for the German car industry for 2003. The dataset is rather unique in the sense that it contains …
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This paper analyzes the allocation of workers to jobs and the wage distribution in Germany. Our main contribution is to …
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innovation and productivity and firms tend to decline in sales and employment. …
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to workplace innovation. Under our theoretical model, which extends the Cournot duopoly innovation model, local union … wage bargaining is more conducive to innovation - particularly product innovation - than competitive pay setting. We test … with process innovation. …
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We study the impact of transparency in a commodity market on the decision problem of a competitive firm under price uncertainty and hedging opportunities. Market transparency is modeled by means of the informational content of publicly observable signals which are correlated with the random...
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collaborate in R&D is increasing in R&D productivity. The key findings of the theoretical model are tested using German innovation … survey data for the service sector. A simultaneous model for cooperation choice and innovation expenditures shows that R …&D cooperation has a weakly significant positive effect on innovation expenditures. The empirical results broadly support the …
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collaborate in R&D is increasing in R&D productivity. The key findings of the theoretical model are tested using German innovation … survey data for the service sector. A simultaneous model for cooperation choice and innovation expenditures shows that R …&D cooperation has a weakly significant positive effect on innovation expenditures. The empirical results broadly support the …
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Der folgende Beitrag stellt erste Ergebnisse einer schriftlichen Umfrage vor, die im Herbst 2001 bei Versicherungsvertretern und Versicherungsmaklern zum Thema Transparenz auf dem Markt für private Alterssicherung deutschlandweit durchgeführt wurde. Mit der zunehmenden Bedeutung, die der...
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