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Endogenous product versus process innovation and a firm's propensity to export

Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter - 2007

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the effects of new product versus process innovations on export propensity at the firm level. Product innovation is a key factor for successful market entry in models of creative destruction and Schumpeterian growth. Process innovation helps securing...

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Teacher quality and incentives theoretical and empirical effects of standards on teacher quality

Juerges, Hendrik; Richter, Wolfram F.; Schneider, Kerstin - 2004

Applying the theory of yardstick competition to the schooling system, we show that it is optimal to have central tests of student achievement and to engage in benchmarking because it raises the quality of teaching. This is true even if teachers? pay (defined in monetary terms) is not performance...

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Democratic participation and the size of regions: an empirical study using data on German counties

Seitz, Helmut - 2008

The paper examines the relation between political participation and the size of regions taking German counties as observational units. The paper makes several contributions to the literature. To begin with, we measure political participation along two dimensions namely voter turnout, which is...

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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US?: selective features of immigration to four major OECD countries

Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008

Building on a new data set which is combined from national micro-data bases, we highlight differences in the structure of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source...

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Effects of corporate tax reforms on SMEs' investment decisions under the particular consideration of inflation

Nam, Chang Woon; Radulescu, Doina Maria - 2005

generous tax depreciation provisions. Several countries including the UK have reduced tax rates for SMEs. This study compares … incentive effects of such reforms on the SMEs? investment decisions adopting simple present value model. Ceteris paribus tax …

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Integrating with their feet: cross-border lending at the German-Austrian border

Fidrmuc, Jarko; Hainz, Christa - 2008

show that distance matters for cross-border lending, especially for the SMEs. In contrast to the policy of harmonization …

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Is the German Mittelstand More Resistant to Crises? Empirical Evidence from the Great Recession

Berlemann, Michael; Jahn, Vera; Lehmann, Robert - 2021

Mittelstand enterprises, defined as owner-managed SMEs. We present supporting evidence for the hypothesis that Mittelstand firms … performed more stable throughout the Great Recession than non-Mittelstand firms. We also show that owner-managed SMEs performed … significantly better than SMEs and owner-managed large enterprises. Thus, it is rather the combination of firm-size and owner …

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What explains the rise in CEO pay in Germany? A panel data analysis for 1977-2009

Fabbri, Francesca; Marin, Dalia - 2012

The compensation of executive board members in Germany has become a highly controversial topic since Vodafone's hostile takeover of Mannesmann in 2000 and it is again in the spotlight since the outbreak of the financial crisis of 2009. Based on unique panel data evidence of the 500 largest firms...

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Demography and innovative entrepreneurship

Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2007

Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...

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