This paper investigates the impact of energy policies on the export performance of firms. There has been a long policy debate on potentially negative impacts of cost-increasing energy policies on international competitiveness. We use firm-level data from three countries with similar industry...

Where do we stand in the transition process toward a circular economy? How can this transition process be promoted? To investigate these questions, we develop a concept for empirically measuring the transition process along a company’s value chain and distinguish between 27 circular...

Based on a comprehensive data set comprising 13 countries, 22 industries and a period of 30 years we investigate the impact of internal and external knowledge pools of both green and ‘other than green’ technologies on green patent activities. It turned out that the internal green knowledge...

Das Wachstum der Schweizer Wirtschaft wird längerfristig durch die Innovationsleistung der Unternehmen stark beeinflusst. Um diese beurteilen zu können, führt die KOF der ETH Zürich seit 1990 regelmässig Erhebungen bei rund 6000 Firmen durch. Wir präsentieren hier Resultate zu folgenden...

Die Entwicklung der schweizerischen Volkswirtschaft seit 1991 ist gekennzeichnet durch ein im internationalen Vergleich überdurchschnittliches Wachstum des Sektors, welcher der internationalen Konkurrenz ausgesetzt ist, und dabei vor allem der wissensintensiven Branchen, sowie ein ebenfalls...

Based on a comprehensive data set comprising 13 countries, 22 industries and a period of 30 years we investigate the impact of internal and external knowledge pools of both green and ‘other than green’ technologies on green patent activities. It turned out that the internal green knowledge...

Start-ups mostly have only limited internal financing. Post-entry performance should thus strongly depend on the availability of new external capital. In this study we analyze the impact of financial constraints on the performance of Swiss start-ups. Since we use cohort data, we have for some...