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Exports Versus FDI Revisited: Does Finance Matter?
Buch, Claudia M.; Kesternich, Iris; Lipponer, Alexander; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper explores the impact of financial constraints on the internationalization strategies of firms. It contributes to the literature by focusing on three aspects: First, the paper studies the impact of financial constraints on exporting relative to FDI. Consistent with theory, the empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693534
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Power in the Multinational Corporation in Industry Equilibrium
Marin, Dalia; Thierry, Verdier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Recent theories of the multinational corporation introduce the property rights model of the firm and examine whether to integrate our outsource firm activities locally or to a foreign country. This paper focus instead on the internal organization of the multinational corporation by examining the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005785904
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Financial Constraints and the Margins of FDI
Buch, Claudia M.; Kesternich, Iris; Lipponer, Alexander; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Recent literature on multinational firms has stressed the importance of low productivity as a barrier to the cross-border expansion of firms. But firms may also need external finance to shoulder the costs of entering foreign markets. We develop a model of multinational firms facing real and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005103376
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Financial constraints and innovation: Why poor countries don't catchup
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We examine micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693535
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Standards, Innovation Incentives, and the Formation of Patent Pools
Schmidt, Klaus M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Technological standards give rise to a complements problem that affects pricing and innovation incentives of technology producers. In this paper I discuss how patent pools can be used to solve these problems and what incentives patent holders have to form a patent pool. I offer some suggestions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727880
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‘A Nation of Poets and Thinkers’ - Less So with Eastern Enlargement? Austria and Germany
Marin, Dalia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
Many people in the European Union fear that Eastern Enlargement will lead to major job losses. More recently, these fears about job losses have extended to high skill labor and IT jobs. The paper examines with new firm level data whether these fears are justified for the two neighboring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005785873
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To Be Financed or Not... - The Role of Patents for Venture Capital Financing
Haeussler, Caroline; Harhoff, Dietmar; Müller, Elisabeth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncertainty and therefore rely on patents as signals when trying to assess the prospects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005785936
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The Effects of Entrepreneurship Education
Weber, Richard; Graevenitz, Georg von; Harhoff, Dietmar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Entrepreneurship education ranks highly on policy agendas in Europe and the US, but little research is available to … assess its impacts. In this context it is of primary importance to understand whether entrepreneurship education raises … intentions to be entrepreneurial generally or whether it helps students determine how well suited they are for entrepreneurship …
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