This paper explores whether powerful politicians' shocks cause changes in corporate R&D investment in the United States. The article employs an original hand-collected data on firms' R&D investment to sort firms into those connected to the powerful congress chairman's representing state and...

In this paper, we investigate what can be learned about average counterfactual outcomes as well as average treatment effects when it is assumed that treatment response functions are smooth. We obtain a set of new partial identification results for both the average treatment response and the...

This paper is about how the author proposes to replicate Evanschitzky, Baumgarth, Hubbard, and Armstrong's "Replication research's disturbing trend" (Journal of Business Research, 2007). This is because estimating the incidence of published replication research and its outcomes must be continued.

The main design objective of the solar photovoltaic (PV) systems is to extract the maximum power from the PV systems for a long time. The amount of power extracted from the PV array can be affected by temperature, solar irradiation, dust accumulation, wind speed, PV array configuration and...

In der Auseinandersetzung mit der Generierung und Implementierung von Verfahrensinnovationen wurden die kognitiv-emotionalen Bedingungen der Innovativität bisher vernachlässigt; Konzeptionen des Führungsverhaltens bieten keine zufriedenstellenden Lösungen. Diana E. Krause entwickelt ein...