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Clusters and the New Growth Path for Europe
Ketels, Christian; Protsiv, Sergiy - 2013
Competitiveness Index and the European Cluster Observatory. We create indicators for New Growth Path performance and its main …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410985
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Competitiveness and Clusters: Implications for a New European Growth Strategy
Ketels, Christian - 2015
concept of competitiveness in the context of the new growth path that WWWforEurope aims to outline. A first section discusses … concept of competitiveness that embeds beyond-GDP objectives (MS46). It then extends this work by deriving an initial set of … competitiveness, it specifically discusses the new concept of competitiveness proposed in MS46 and the notion of trade-offs among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411052
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Competitiveness and clusters : implications for a new European growth strategy
Ketels, Christian H. - 2015
concept of competitiveness in the context of the new growth path that WWWforEurope aims to outline. A first section discusses … concept of competitiveness that embeds beyond-GDP objectives (MS46). It then extends this work by deriving an initial set of … competitiveness, it specifically discusses the new concept of competitiveness proposed in MS46 and the notion of trade-offs among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337050
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Clusters and the new growth path for Europe
Ketels, Christian H.; Protsiv, Sergiy - 2013
Competitiveness Index and the European Cluster Observatory. We create indicators for New Growth Path performance and its main …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010432439
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Minimum wages and competition : the case of the German roofing sector
Kraft, Kornelius; Rammer,Christian; Gottschalk, Sandra - 2012
This paper analyses the effects of minimum wages on competition in the German roofing sector. The case is particularly interesting since this sector is faced with a uniform minimum wage despite significant regional disparities in productivity and wages. As a control industry we take the plumbing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009675281
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Minimum Wages and Competition : The Case of the German Roofing Sector
Kraft, Kornelius - 2012
This paper analyses the effects of minimum wages on competition in the German roofing sector. The case is particularly interesting since this sector is faced with a uniform minimum wage despite significant regional disparities in productivity and wages. As a control industry we take the plumbing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096209
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The Short-Term Impact of Product Market Reforms : A Cross-Country Firm-Level Analysis
Gal, Peter N. - 2016
This paper analyzes the effects of product market reforms in the short and medium term across 10 regulated industries and 18 advanced economies for the period 1998-2013 using internationally comparable firm-level data based on Orbis. It provides four key insights. First, product market reforms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977841
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Show Me Yours and I'll Show You Mine : Sharing Borrower Information in a Competitive Credit Market
Bos, Jaap W.B. - 2016
We exploit contract-level data on approved and rejected small-business loans to assess the impact of a new credit registry in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Our findings are threefold. First, mandatory information sharing tightens lending at the extensive margin as loan officers reject more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013004696
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Show Me Yours and I'll Show You Mine : Sharing Borrower Information in a Competitive Credit Market
Bos, Jaap W.B. - 2016
We exploit detailed data on approved and rejected small business loans to assess the impact of the introduction of a credit registry in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Our findings are threefold. First, mandatory information sharing tightens lending at the extensive margin as more applications are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013004833
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Intervention Versus Inter-Platform Competition : Strategic Industrial Policy and Standardisation
Friesenbichler, Klaus - 2016
Many innovation and industrial policy documents assign significant growth potential to "smart standardisation". The aim of this contribution is to discuss the complexity of standardisation as a policy instrument beyond the catchphrase. We derive implications on policies from the underlying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013005982