Innovations in the field of information systems (IS) open up new possibilities to increase energyefficiency and carbon reduction. For this, real estate is an industry sector with remarkably highpotential. Here IS are integrated into 'Intelligent Houses'. But many of these...

In Shakespeare’s play The Taming of the Shrew, theprotagonist tames his beloved one. Lately, Germanpolitics has presented The Taming of the Heuschrecken(grasshoppers). Heuschrecken is the politically incorrectdescription for private equity companies, so named byFranz Müntefering, the leader...

Der Begriff „Wachstum“ gehört zu den schillernden Schlagwörtern des politischen Alltags.2 Wachstum ist gut, und vieles scheint in Gefahr, wenn Wachstum ausbleibt. So führt Bundeskanzlerin Merkel in ihrer Regierungserklärung vom 10. November 2009 zum Beginn der neuen Legislaturperiode...

This paper constructs a two-country stochastic growth model in which neutraland investment-specic technology shocks are nonstationary but cointegrated acrosseconomies. It uses this model to interpret data showing that while real investmenthas grown faster than real consumption in the United...

This paper empirically examines whether additional future xed capital and R&D investmentexpenditures induce rms to accumulate cash reserves while considering therole of market imperfections. Implementing a dynamic framework on a panel of US, UKand German companies, we nd that rms make larger...

This paper develops a model of corporate investment and financing decisions thatdiffers from previous contributions by recognizing that firms face uncertainty regardingtheir future access to credit markets and may have to search for creditors when raisingdebt financing. We show that accounting...

We look at disaggregated imports of various types of equipment to make inferences oncross-country differences in the composition of equipment investment. We make threecontributions. First, we document strikingly large differences in investment composition.Second, we explain the differences as...

Assuming investors are loss averse, repeated risky investments are less attractive inmyopic evaluation. A theoretical foundation for this effect is given by the behavioralconcept of myopic loss aversion (MLA). The consequences of MLA have been confirmedin several between-subject experimental...

This paper analyzes the joint effect of EPL and financial market imperfections on investment,capital-labour substitution, labour productivity and job reallocation in a cross-countryframework. In the spirit of Rajan and Zingales (1998) and Ciccone and Papaioannou (2006),we exploit variation in...

This paper studies a two country model with economies disaggregated into traded and non-traded sectors and in which investment goods as in practice are produced by combining inputsfrom all sectors. The model also accounts for nontraded distribution services employed in retail-ing traded goods to...