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Unternehmen investieren in Forschung und Entwicklung (FuE), um ihre Wettbewerbsfähigkeit zu sichern und die Produktivität zu erhöhen. Mit umfangreichen Unternehmensdaten für Deutschland kann hier gezeigt werden, dass forschende Industrieunternehmen in zentralen städtischen...
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productivity - hold for knowledge intensive services. Combining the models of Crepon et al. (1998) and of Ackerberg et al. (2015 …), allows for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … productivity. Moreover, the firm size advantage found for manufacturing in previous studies nearly disappears for knowledge …
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In this work, we test the employment impact of distinct types of innovative investments using a representative sample of Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 2002-2013. Our GMM-SYS estimates generate various results, which are partially in contrast with the extant literature. Indeed,...
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Obwohl die Innovationsausgaben von kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen zuletzt wieder angestiegen sind, hat sich seit dem Ende der Finanzkrise im Jahr 2009 bei diesen Aufwendungen eine Schere zwischen kleineren Unternehmen und Großunternehmen aufgetan. Vor diesem Hintergrund untersucht der...
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Iceland is one of the smallest European economies and the country was hit severely by the 2008-financial crisis. This paper considers the economy in the period preceding the collapse. Applying a Data Envelopment Analysis on 204 randomly selected firms, the results suggest that a substantial...
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Has the European integration process lead to increased specialisation and what drives changes in specialisation? To address these questions we apply a model that incorporates endowments, technology and increasing returns to scale (IRS). Analyses reveal that countries with high capital...
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This paper discusses the link between R&D and productivity across the European industrial and service sectors. The … impact on labour productivity; this general result is largely consistent with previous literature in terms of the sign, the …, R&D investment is not the sole source of productivity gains; technological change embodied in gross investment is of …
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investment in knowledge, and its productivity, looking at sectoral peculiarities which may emerge; to this end, we use a large … positive impact on a firm's productivity, with an overall elasticity of about 0.10; this general result is largely consistent … ahead in terms of the impact on productivity of their R&D investments; moreover, a shift in favour of the service sectors …
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We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite-weighted patents). To explore the mechanism through which this link arises, we build a model that nests the lazy-manager hypothesis with career-concerns, where institutional...
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through which upstream sector anticompetitive regulations may impact productivity growth: business investments in R&D and in …, management and organization. For this, we specify an extended production function relating productivity explicitly to R&D and ICT … productivity can be sizeable, and they provide evidence that a good part of the total impact, though not a predominant one, goes …
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