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Firm-Level Investment and Exporting : New Empirical Evidence From Ghana and Tanzania
Esaku, Stephen - 2020
Using firm-level data from two selected African countries, we examine whether firm-level investment in capital is a possible channel through which less productive firms gain entry into export markets. Our findings reveal that non-exporters who invest in capital stock increase their probability...
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Estimating dynamic R&D demand : an analysis of costs and long-run benefits
Peters, Bettina (contributor) - 2013
Using firm-level data from the German manufacturing sector, we estimate a dynamic, structural model of the firm’s decision to invest in R&D and quantify the cost and longrun benefit of this investment. The model incorporates and quantifies linkages between the firm’s R&D investment, product...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010203640
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Management control and innovative activity
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2000
This paper discusses theoretically the different incentives of managers versus firm owners to invest in innovative activities. There are opposing effects concerning R&D intensity in the manager-controlled firm. Our study on the determinants of R&D intensity presents empirical results concerning...
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Strategic information disclosure and competition for an imperfectly protected innovation
Jansen, Jos - 2009
The imperfect appropriability of revenues from innovation affects the incentives of firms to invest, and to disclose … information about their innovative productivity. It creates a free-rider effect in the competition for the innovation that … strategic disclosure for the firms.profits and the probability of innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285360
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Strategic complementarities between different types of ICT-expenditures
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2003
Multivariate Tobit models are estimated using German cross-sectional data to test whether strategic complementarities exist between expenditures in four different types of ICT-components. If two ICT-components are complements, they are correlated (provided that agents act rationally)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448665
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An empirical test of the asymmetric models on innovative activity : who invests more into R&D - the incumbent or the challenger?
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2000
The theoretical discussion concerning the question whether the incumbent or the (potential) entrant invests more into R&D has attracted considerable interest. This paper reports the results of an empirical study on this question using data of about 3500 German firms over the years 1992 to 1995....
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Estimating Dynamic R&D Demand : An Analysis of Costs and Long-Run Benefits
Peters, Bettina; Roberts, Mark J.; Vuong, Van Anh; … - 2013
Using firm-level data from the German manufacturing sector, we estimate a dynamic, structural model of the firm’s decision to invest in R&D and quantify the cost and longrun benefit of this investment. The model incorporates and quantifies linkages between the firm’s R&D investment, product...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014152023
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Finanzierung von Innovationen in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen
Müller, Elisabeth; Reize, Frank - In: Finanzierung von Innovationen : [Tagung "Finanzierung …, (pp. 155-167). 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008760120
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Linkages between technology choice and exporting : evidence from Argentina
Schmidt, Gabriela; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2010
This paper aids our understanding of the link between innovation and exporting behavior by detailing how firms may … purposefully decide on the source country for the imported innovation and the market that they ultimately serve. We argue that …
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