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Product differentiation and systematic risk: theory and empirical evidence
Bazdresch, Santiago - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Firms producing differentiated products have high margins and therefore low risk. As a result firms invest more into developing differentiated products when they perceive risk is high. Higher risk also implies higher product skewness towards more differentiated products and therefore higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009397195
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The Determinants of Corporate Growth
Rosique, Francisco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Corporate Growth is a concept that has been widely treated in a specific way or as part of strategy theories, in definition and in econometric models and has also been studied in many different aspects and approaches. The author describes in depth the main variables affecting corporate growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490086
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Institutions, Innovation and Economic Growth
Tebaldi, Edinaldo; Elmslie, Bruce - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
studying institutions and technological innovation and examining how human capital and institutional constraints affect the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787003
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Open Source Software and Economic Growth: A Classical Division of Labor Perspective
Garzarelli, Giampaolo; Limam, Yasmina Reem; Thomassen, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The article turns to classical economic insights on the division of labor and to institutional reasoning to identify some costs and benefits of Open Source Software (OSS) and proprietary software production. It suggests that, thanks to its licenses, OSS favors market expansion more than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623496
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Inflation, Income Inequality and Economic Growth in Pakistan: A Cointegration Analysis
Ali, Sharafat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The study is an attempt to explore the impact of inflation and income inequality in Pakistan. The study also analyzes the effect of foreign direct investment, workers’ remittances and manufacturing value added on growth. Annual time series data from 1972 to 2007 was used for the analysis....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261152
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Business investment during the global crisis: some evidence from the Italian experience
D'Elia, Enrico; Morettini, Lucio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
this situation is represented by investments in innovation: guarantees and other elements related to the credit market have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011130311
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Network Investment, Access and Competition
Inderst, Roman; Peitz, Martin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We analyze the role of different contract types and access regulation on innovation and competition in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110112
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Network neutrality and congestion sensitive content providers: Implications for content variety, broadband investment and regulation
Krämer, Jan; Wiewiorra, Lukas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We study departures from network neutrality through implementing a Quality of Service tiering regime in which an ISP charges for prioritization on a non-discriminatory basis. We find that Quality of Service tiering may be more efficient in the short run, because it better allocates the existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111227
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Network neutrality and congestion sensitive content providers: Implications for content variety, broadband investment and regulation
Krämer, Jan; Wiewiorra, Lukas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We study departures from network neutrality through implementing a Quality of Service tiering regime in which an ISP charges for prioritization on a non-discriminatory basis. We find that Quality of Service tiering may be more efficient in the short run, because it better allocates the existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010593240
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Do Institutions Impact Innovation?
Tebaldi, Edinaldo; Elmslie, Bruce - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
the links between innovation and institutions. Using cross-country data and the instrumental variable method, this study … boost an economy’s rate of innovation. Most of the previous literature on institutional and economic performance finds a … of institutions on innovation spillover to the growth rate of GDP per capita, this paper shows evidence of a growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619367