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Voter Involvement, Fiscal Autonomy and Public Sector Efficiency: Evidence from German Municipalities

Geys, Benny; Heinemann, Friedrich; Kalb, Alexander - 2008

political sphere is related to government performance – in terms of its efficiency – using a broad panel of German … municipalities. Our results suggest that voter involvement indeed has a positive impact on (technical) efficiency. Crucially, however …, this efficiency-enhancing effect of voter involvement is significantly (positively) affected by local governments? fiscal …

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Voter Involvement, Fiscal Autonomy and Public Sector Efficiency: Evidence from German Municipalities

Geys, Benny; Heinemann, Friedrich; Kalb, Alexander - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

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Information accessibility and knowledge creation: The impact of Google's withdrawal from China on scientific research

Hussinger, Katrin; Palladini, Lorenzo - 2024

How important is Google for scientific research? This paper exploits the exogenous shock represented by Google's sudden withdrawal of its services from mainland China to assess the importance of access to information for the knowledge production function of scientific scholars in the field of...

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Location factors and ecosystem embedding of sustainability-engaged blockchain companies in the US: A web-based analysis

Kinne, Jan; Dehghan, Robert; Schmidt, Sebastian; Lenz, David - 2024

While many digital technologies provide opportunities for creating business models with an impact on sustainability, some technologies, especially blockchain applications, are often criticized for harming the environment, e.g. due to high energy demand. In our study, we present a novel approach...

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Productivity, Growth, and Internationalisation: The Case of German and British High Techs

Fryges, Helmut - 2004

International engagement is often expected to improve firm performance. Especially for small technology-oriented firms, export activities may be important, being regarded as one way to amortise these firms? high product research and development costs. This paper examines the relationship between...

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The Change of Sales Modes in International Markets: Empirical Results for German and British High-Tech Firms

Fryges, Helmut - 2005

The choice of the appropriate sales mode belongs to the firm?s most important strategic decisions after entering into a foreign market. Thus, it is important that the selected foreign sales mode best suits a firm?s available resources and capabilities. However, these resources and capabilities...

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The Export-Growth Relationship: Estimating a Dose-Response Function

Fryges, Helmut - 2006

The relationship between individual firms? export behaviour and firm performance has been studied extensively in the economic literature. However, most studies from the field of economics only distinguish between exporting and non-exporting companies, using the firms? export status as a binary...

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Technology transfer and the Internet: a chance for outsiders at public science to get into the business?

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian - 2001

The Internet is receiving increasing attention as a medium for technology transfer between public research and the enterprise sector. Based on a survey of public research units in natural sciences and engineering in Germany, we analyse the determinants of firm contacts established via the...

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Hidden champions - how young and small technology-oriented firms can attain high export-sales ratios

Fryges, Helmut - 2006

Determinants of a firm?s export-sales ratio (degree of internationalisation) are frequently discussed in the literature related to individual firms? export activities. Stylised facts show a positive relationship between firm size and firm age on the one hand and the firm?s export-sales ratio on...

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The Role of Creative Industries in Industrial Innovation

Trüby, Johannes; Rammer, Christian; Müller, Kathrin - 2008

This paper analyses the role of creative industries in affecting an economy's innovation performance. We conducted a survey of more than 2,000 creative industry enterprises from Austria which are defined by a combination of sector affiliation and the degree of creativity of the services they...

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