The patent systems in Europe, the United States and many other countries exempt medical treatment methods from patentability or shield physicians from the enforcement of such patents. While various policy reasons for such exceptions can be traced back decades and even centuries, today the...

Convergence to the Centre -- Financial Markets: Banks Capital Markets -- Firm Size, Productivity, EU-Funds and Corruption -- Labour Markets: Structural Characteristics and the Impact of Two Crises -- Transport and Mobility -- Monetary, Macroprudential, and Fiscal Policy -- Green Economy: Energy,...

Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die adäquate Vergütung von neuer Medizintechnik in einer Situation, in der der Patient Ex-post-Moral-Hazard ausübt. Während der Arzt die Behandlungstechnik vorschlägt, wählt der Patient im Anschluss die für ihn optimale Menge an Behandlung. Es zeigt sich,...

This paper contributes to the literature by providing the first evidence on the link between innovation activities (measured by the share of engineers and scientists in the workforce) and exports of German business services firms based on a large representative longitudinal sample of...