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What determines relative sectoral investment patterns in EU regions?

Stirböck, Claudia (contributor) - 2002

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001701757

Employment effects of innovations over the business cycle : firm-level evidence from European countries

Dachs, Bernhard; Hud, Martin; Koehler, Christian; … - 2016

A growing literature investigates how firms' innovation input reacts to changes in the business cycle. However, so far there is no evidence whether there is cyclicality in the effects of innovation on firm performance as well. In this paper, we investigate the employment effects of innovations...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011563081

Systemic risk in European banking : evidence from bivariate GARCH models

Schröder, Michael; Schüler, Martin - 2003

This paper attempts to assess the Europe-wide systemic risk in banking. We employ a bivariate GARCH model to estimate … interdependencies amongst the banking business in Europe and hence for the systemic risk potential. We employ several tests to assess …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448270

EU enlargement and immigration

Kraus, Margit; Schwager, Robert - 2000

This paper assesses the consequences of EU enlargement for East West migration. In the theoretical part, we identify several factors in addition to the reduction of moving costs by which EU membership influences migration. Specifically, EU accession affects income gaps. Moreover, if EU...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443914

Training and individual performance in Europe : evidence from microeconometric studies

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2000

. This paper provides a critical review of recent econometric work on the determinants and impacts of training in Europe …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444703

Short-run fertility effects of parental leave benefits : evidence from a structural model

Stichnoth, Holger - 2014

Based on a structural model of fertility and female labour force supply with unobserved heterogeneity and state … generous earnings-related transfer. The model predicts a short-term fertility effect of about 4%, which is consistent with … recent quasi-experimental evidence. The fertility effect is strongest for first births and increases with income. We use the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010416349

What old stagers could teach us : examining age complementarities in regional innovation systems

Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry - 2014

Concerns have been raised that demographic ageing may weaken the competitiveness of knowledge-based economies and increase regional disparities. The age-creativity link is however far from clear at the aggregate level. Contributing to this debate, we estimate the causal effect of the workforce...

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Determinanten regionaler Unterschiede in der Gründungshäufigkeit wissensintensiver Dienstleister

Almus, Matthias; Egeln, Jürgen; Engel, Dirk - 1999

interpret the estimation results for start-ups in knowledge intensive sectors in a reliable way. The remaining firms serve as a …

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Regional stabilization by fiscal equalization? : theoretical considerations and empirical evidence from Germany

Büttner, Thiess - 1999

In the context of EMU fiscal equalization schemes have been proposed as a means to stabilize regions against asymmetric shocks. A theoretical analysis shows that besides reducing the cross-sectional income variance the redistributive element of fiscal equalization causes incentive effects for...

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Which form of venture capital is most supportive of innovation?

Bertoni, Fabio; Tykvová, Tereza - 2012

investors ; governmental venture capital investors ; syndication ; biotech and pharmaceutical companies ; Europe …

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