product and process innovation among exporting firms and these innovations have a larger impact on productivity improvement in …

This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data … set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994-2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at … innovation experience, the results further highlight the important role of knowledge provided by skilled employees and unobserved …

private" transactions, mergers and acquisitions in general, and substantial increases in leverage … in question, and the effect takes at least three years to work through. Finally, although the evidence on acquisitions by …

private" transactions, mergers and acquisitions in general, and substantial increases in leverage.The major conclusions are … the effect takes at least three years to work through. Finally, although the evidence on acquisitions by publicly traded …

This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data … set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994?2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at … innovation experience, the results further highlight the important role of knowledge provided by skilled employees and unobserved …

This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the concept of …. If they selected additional innovation projects, they must have had some unexploited investment opportunities that were … not profitable using more costly external finance. We attribute constraints for innovation not only to lacking financing …

This paper examines the links between innovation and productivity in service enterprises. For this purpose, we use … micro data from the Community Innovation Survey 2008 in Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and estimate an augmented … structural model. Our results indicate that innovation in service enterprises is linked to higher productivity. In all three …