In this paper, we use a novel firm level dataset for Germany to investigate the effect of sanctions on export behaviour …

crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …

to workplace innovation. Under our theoretical model, which extends the Cournot duopoly innovation model, local union … wage bargaining is more conducive to innovation - particularly product innovation - than competitive pay setting. We test … with process innovation …

for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … intensive services benefit from innovation activities in the sense that these activities causally increase their labor …

Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable … sharp reduction in the firm's innovation response to exogenous demand shocks for firms just below the regulatory threshold …. We then quantitatively fit the parameters of the model to the data, finding that innovation at the macro level is about 5 …

of the individual labor market condition. We combined matching methods and parametric estimation to strengthen the causal …