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Appropriability, opportunity, firm size and innovation activities : empirical results using East and West German firm level data
Felder, Johannes; Licht, Georg; Nerlinger, Eric A.; … - 1995
of the hypotheses raised in this literature. It employs the data of the first wave of the Mannheim Innovation Panel …&D we also used the concept of total innovation expenditures to capture the importance of non R& D innovation activities … which are especially important for small firms. (3) We give reliable estimates on the occurrence of R&D and innovation …
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Appropriability, opportunity, firm size and innovation activities : empirical results using East and West German firm level data
Felder, Johannes (contributor) - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428016
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Search and equilibrium prices : theory and evidence from retail diesel
Cabral, Luís M. B.; Schober, Dominik; Woll, Oliver - 2019 - This version: March 27, 2019
We examine the relation between consumer search and equilibrium prices when collusion is endogenously determined. We develop a theoretical model and show that average price is a U-shaped function of the measure of searchers: prices are highest when there are no searchers (local monopoly power)...
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Project monitoring and banking competition under adverse selection
Kanniainen, Vesa; Stenbacka, Rune - 1998 - Revised version
We develop an analysis of ex ante monitoring of risky projects in banking. If protected from competition, banks are more concerned about not catching good risk projects when the perceived state of the economy improves, while they are more concerned about being induced to finance bad risk...
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Labor market dynamics when effort depends on wage growth comparisons
De la Croix, David; Palm, Franz C.; Urbain, Jean-Pierre - 1996
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Neo-classical demand for labour functions for six major economies
Symons, J.; Layard, R. - 1983
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Law enforcement and criminality : Europe vs. USA
Demougin, Dominique; Schwager, Robert - 1999
We use a stylized model to show that, if transfers to the poor are founded on a security argument, there is a negative trade-off between law enforcement expenditures and criminality. In contrast, if transfers are based on altruism, the correlation between the same variables may appear positive....
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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs
Muysken, Joan - 2000
general equilibrium model, this paper shows that skilled insiders in the USA enjoy higher rents and increase the skilled wage … outsiders in the USA do not possess a powerful credible threat to improve their position. This is a consequence from higher … training and education costs in the USA for unskilled employees and unemployed. In Germany, the lower skill wage mark-up leads …
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Citation frequency and the value of patented innovation
Harhoff, Dietmar; Narin, Francis; Scherer, Frederic M.; … - 1997
Through a survey, economic value estimates were obtained on 962 inventions made in the United States and Germany and on which German patent renewal fees were paid to full-term expiration in 1995. A search of subsequent U.S. and German patents yielded a count of citations to those patents....
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Environmental policy instruments and their effects on innovation
Hemmelskamp, Jens - 1996
The influence of environmental policy on innovative behaviour of companies has so far received little attention in scientific discourse. Based on recent literature, the paper analyses the impact of requirements, levies, permits, liability laws, and the EC-eco- audit regulation with respect to...
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