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Concentration on the few? : R&D and innovation in German firms 2001 to 2013

Rammer, Christian; Schubert, Torben - 2016

Innovation activities in the German enterprise sector showed two opposing trends over the past two decades: While total innovation expenditures grew substantially, the number of firms conducting innovation activities fell sharply. Innovation expenditures hence concentrate on fewer firms. In this...

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Technological capabilities, technological dynamism and innovation offshoring

Schubert, Torben; Baier, Elisabeth; Rammer, Christian - 2016

In this paper we analyze the conditions under which firms decide to offshore innovation. We consider the role of internal technological capabilities and technological dynamism in the firm environment, distinguishing speed and uncertainty of technological change. Using unique data from the German...

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Investitionsschwäche oder Strukturverschiebung der Investitionstätigkeit? : zur Rolle immaterieller Investitionen für die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Unternehmen

Rammer, Christian; Peters, Bettina - 2016

Der Beitrag untersucht, inwieweit hinter der oft konstatierten Investitionsschwäche der europäischen Wirtschaft eine Strukturverschiebung von materiellen zu immateriellen Investitionen steht. Da letztere nur zum Teil unter den Investitionsbegriff der Volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnung...

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Does energy policy hurt international competitiveness of firms? : a comparative study for Germany, Switzerland and Austria

Rammer, Christian; Gottschalk, Sandra; Peneder, Michael; … - 2016

-level data from three countries with similar industry structure but different energy policies: Germany, Switzerland, and Austria …

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Innovation budgeting over the business cycle and innovation performance

Hud, Martin; Rammer, Christian - 2015

The global economic crisis of 2008/2009 hit many firms hard. Faced with rapidly declining sales and highly uncertain economic prospects, firms had to cut costs and reconsider their business strategies. With respect to innovation, cost cutting often means to stop or underresource innovation...

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Energy transition in Germany and regional spillovers : what triggers the diffusion of renewable energy in firms?

Horbach, Jens; Rammer, Christian - 2017

(role of regional spillover effects, the greenness of a region and the regional endowment with green energy plants). We use … a unique database combining the Community Innovation Survey 2014 for Germany and NUTS 3 data on renewable energy plants …, the greenness of a region and other economic control variables. We find that geographical proximity to electricity …

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What's on their mind : do exchange rate forecasters stick to theoretical models?

Schröder, Michael; Dornau, Robert - 1999

Do financial market analysts use structural economic models when forecasting exchange rates? This is the leading question analysed in this paper. In contrast to other studies we use expectations data instead of observable variables. Therefore we analyse the implicit structural models forecasters...

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Unternehmens- versus Analystenbefragungen : zum Prognosegehalt von ifo-Geschäftserwartungen und ZEW-Konjunkturerwartungen

Hüfner, Felix; Schröder, Michael - 2001

In der vorliegenden Arbeit untersuchen wir die Eignung der ifo-Geschäftserwartungen und der ZEW-Konjunkturerwartungen als Frühindikatoren für die deutsche Industrieproduktion. Anhand von Granger-Kausalitätstests wird gezeigt, dass die auf Umfragen unter Finanzanalysten basierenden...

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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

enterprise sector. Based on a survey of public research units in natural sciences and engineering in Germany, we analyse the …

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Forecasting economic activity in Germany : how useful are sentiment indicators?

Hüfner, Felix; Schröder, Michael - 2002

We analyze four economic sentiment indicators for the German economy regarding their ability to forecast economic activity. Using cross correlations and Granger causality tests we find that the ifo business expectations (ifo), the Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) and the ZEW Indicator of Economic...

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