We explore the tail of patented invention value distributions by using value estimates obtained directly from patent holders. The paper focuses on those full-term German patents of the application year 1977 which were held by West German and U.S. residents. The most valuable patents in our data...

Für Unternehmen kann die Analyse von Credit Spreads, d.h. der Differenz zwischen den Renditen von Unternehmensanleihen und laufzeitäquivalenten risikolosen Anlagen, nützliche Informationen erbringen, da sich Veränderungen im Credit Spread auf ihre Finanzierungskonditionen auswirkt. Prof. Dr....

This volume was prepared by Constantin Mang while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes a short introduction and four self-contained chapters that focus on ICT...