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Determinanten des technischen Fortschritts auf Branchenebene: Ein Überblick
Harabi, Najib - 1997
Die heutige intensive Auseinandersetzung mit dem Fragenkomplex "technischer Fortschritt" hat verschiedene historische Wurzeln und entstammt verschiedenen Forschungsrichtungen. Technischer Fortschritt wird heute von den meisten Ökonomen als ökonomisches Phänomen anerkannt, dem volle...
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Innovation dynamics and endogenous market structure: econometric results from aggregated survey data
Gottschalk, Sandra; Janz, Norbert - 2001
This paper examines empirically the relationship between innovation and market structure within a simultaneous … concentration. In contrast, competition enforces innovation, i.e. sales concentration has a negative impact on R&D. …
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Die Evolution der bundesdeutschen Forschungs- und Technologiepolitik: Rückblick und Bestandsaufnahme
Fier, Andreas; Harhoff, Dietmar - 2001
In Deutschland beanspruchen gleich zwei Ressorts, das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) sowie das Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie (BMWi) die Zuständigkeit für die deutsche Innovationspolitik. Dieses für den Bund offensichtlich bedeutsame Politikfeld...
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Environmental taxation and structural change in an open economy: a CGE analysis with imperfect competition and free entry
Böhringer, Christoph; Welsch, Heinz; Löschel, Andreas - 2001
The economic effects of environmental taxes depend on the market structure. Under imperfect competition with free entry and exit, environmental taxes have an impact on economies of scale by changing the number and size of firms. Whether economies of scale rise or fall in a particular industry...
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The EU decarbonisation roadmap 2050: What way to walk?
Hübler, Michael; Löschel, Andreas - 2013
We carry out a detailed CGE (Computable General Equilibrium) analysis of the EU Decarbonisation Roadmap 2050 on a macroeconomic and on a sectoral level. Herein, we study a Reference scenario that implements existing EU policies as well as 3 unilateral and 3 global climate action scenarios. We...
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Local User-Producer Interaction in Innovation and Export Performance of Firms
Rammer, Christian; Beise, Marian - 2003
preferences. In order to generate global innovation, an international firm should look for the global common denominator of … export effective. We investigate data from the ZEW Innovation survey of 4,786 firms in the manufacturing and service … industries. These firms were asked about the sources of their innovation and their exporting activities. We find evidence that …
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The Influence of the EU Environmental Management and Auditing Scheme on Environmental Innovations and Competitiveness in Germany: An Analysis on the Basis of Case Studies and a Large-Scale Survey
Hoffmann, Esther; Ankele, Kathrin; Ziegler, Andreas; … - 2003
This paper investigates the effects of the EU Environmental Management and Auditing Scheme (EMAS) on environmental innovations and competitiveness in German facilities. It comprises twelve in-depth case studies and telephone interviews with 1277 EMAS-validated facilities. The surveys show a...
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Unmasking the Porter hypothesis: Environmental innovations and firm-profitability
Rexhäuser, Sascha; Rammer, Christian - 2011
are induced by regulations. However, innovation that increases a firm's material or energy efficiency in terms of material … voluntary innovations, although the effect is significantly larger for regulation-driven innovation.We conclude that the Porter … hypothesis does not hold in general for its 'strong' version but has to be qualified by the type of environmental innovation. Our …
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Network Externalities and Interconnection Incentives
Vanberg, Margit A. - 2005
The majority of industrial organizations literature on network externalities looks at firm behavior under given market characteristics. The present paper instead asks the question whether the presence of network externalities can change market characteristics, specifically, whether an initially...
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Product innovation and product innovation marketing: theory and microeconometric evidence
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2001
This paper derives a three stage Cournot?oligopoly game for product innovation, expenditure on introducing the product … and competition on the product market. Product innovation is assumed to increase consumer utility but is effective only if … decide whether or not to conduct product innovation and then determine their expenditure for bringing the new product to the …
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