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Drivers for International Innovation Activities in Developed and Emerging Countries

Schmiele, Anja - 2013

distributed globally. Firms' innovation activities which are carried out abroad comprise either the localization of uniform … paper is to show how internal firm capabilities as well as external forces from the firm’s business and national innovation … environment impact on the firm's decision to carry out different innovation activities abroad. The analysis is based on around …

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Dips and Floors in Workplace Training : Using Personnel Records to Estimate Gender Differences

Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2011

Using personnel records from a single large German firm in the financial industry, this paper provides detailed evidence on the effect of age and the supervisor's gender on gender differences in workplace training, holding constant various workplace characteristics. We implement an age-specific...

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Measuring Organisation Capital at the Firm Level : A Production Function Approach

Rammer, Christian; Roth, Felix; Trunschke, Markus - 2020

Organisation capital is one of the key intangible assets of firms, driving innovation and firm performance. Measuring … considered as a measure of a firm' organisation capital. Using panel data from the German innovation survey, we find higher … organisational innovation …

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German Public Finances Through the Financial Crisis

Blömer, Maximilian - 2018

The German experience of the crisis was very different compared to those of most other countries in Europe. Germany was hit by a very strong shock which was relatively concentrated in the exporting, manufacturing industries. In addition, the German labour market was very resilient during the...

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Spatial Model Selection and Spatial Knowledge Spillovers : A Regional View of Germany

Klarl, Torben - 2010

Knowledge and technological change are often assumed to be the driving forces for long run economic growth. Regions with a higher level of knowledge compared to other regions exhibit a higher per-capita income on average. Agglomeration effects can lead to a steady increase of income and widen...

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ZEW Corporate Taxation Microsimulation Model (ZEW TaxcoMM)

Reister, Timo; Spengel, Christoph; Finke, Katharina; … - 2009

Current political discussions in Germany and other European countries illustrate the importance accorded to revenue and distribution effects of tax reforms. Whereas widely recognized concepts of effective tax measures can provide important insights into the incentives of taxation they do not...

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The Political Economy of Corporate Tax Harmonization - Why Do European Politicians (Dis)Like Minimum Tax Rates?

Osterloh, Steffen; Heinemann, Friedrich - 2009

Setting minimum tax rates is a well discussed way of mitigating pressure from tax competition. This paper investigates which motives shape the support for a minimum corporate tax among politicians. We make use of a unique data base: a survey among members of the European parliament. Our results...

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The Effects of Experience on Selecting Innovation Projects - Better the Devil You Know

Schmidt, Tobias - 2009

Innovation success depends heavily on firm's ability to set priorities and select the most promising options from its … project portfolio before the odds of success or failure become visible and reliable. We ask: What does previous innovation … major learning mechanisms. On the one hand, real options theory suggests a process based on financial data. On the other …

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Heterogeneous Labour Markets in a Microsimulation-Age Model : Application to Welfare Reform in Germany

Boeters, Stefan - 2009

Labour market reforms that are designed to stimulate labour supply at the lower end of the wage distribution can never be precisely restricted to affect only the target group. Spillovers to and feedback from other segments of the labour market are unavoidable and may counteract the direct...

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Search and Equilibrium Prices : Theory and Evidence from Retail Diesel

Cabral, Luis M. B. - 2020

We examine the relation between consumer search and equilibrium prices when collusion is endogenously determined. We develop a theoretical model and show that average price is a U-shaped function of the measure of searchers: prices are highest when there are no searchers (local monopoly power)...

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