Liberalisation and Regulation in Telecommunication Markets -- Theoretical Approaches on Strategic Investment Decisions in Regulated Markets -- Development of a Framework -- Explorative Case Studies on Strategic Investment Decisions and Regulation in European Broadband -- Findings on Strategic...

This paper examines the direct effects of corporate tax on firm productivity along with the interaction effects of tax policy and R&D activity on productivity at firm level for over 13,062 firms during 2004-2011. Our main findings are first, that there is evidence for productivity convergence...

This paper examines the effect of green investments on market power. I measure the market power as markup following the method provided in De Loecker and Warzynski (2012). For green investments, I consider specifically the investments of firms in energy efficient technologies, both as the binary...

The European Commission's top priority is to get Europe growing again and increase the number of jobs without creating new debt. Since the start of the global economic and financial crisis, the EU has been suffering from low levels of investment and high unemployment. To address the problem, the...

The European Commission's top priority is to get Europe growing again and increase the number of jobs without creating new debt. Since the start of the global economic and financial crisis, the EU has been suffering from low levels of investment and high unemployment. To address the problem, the...

Using data on the US and EU top R&D spenders from 2004 until 2012, this paper investigates the sources of the US/EU productivity gap. We find robust evidence that US firms have a higher capacity to translate R&D into productivity gains (especially in the high-tech industries), and this...