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Innovationspolitik für den Mittelstand hat sich bewährt
Belitz, Heike; Eickelpasch, Alexander; Lejpras, Anna - In: DIW Wochenbericht 79 (2012) 49, pp. 3-11
The innovation policy of the German government and Länder provides small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with a wide range of programs to promote their R & D and focuses, in particular, on the transfer of knowledge. In recent years, the programs have been streamlined and funding...
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Innovationsfinanzierung im Mittelstand: Zugang zu Krediten erleichtern!
Belitz, Heike; Lejpras, Anna - In: DIW Wochenbericht 79 (2012) 49, pp. 20-27
Many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are unable to finance research and development (R & D) using only their internal resources. However, they have limited access to external financing loans for high-risk R & D projects. Therefore, funding programs initiated by the German government,...
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Innovationsfinanzierung im Mittelstand: Zugang zu Krediten erleichtern!
Belitz, Heike; Lejpras, Anna - In: DIW Wochenbericht 79 (2012) 49, pp. 20-27
Viele kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) können Forschung und Entwicklung (FuE) nicht allein aus Eigenmitteln finanzieren. Die Fremdfinanzierung risikoreicher FuE-Projekte mit Krediten ist ihnen aber auch nur begrenzt möglich. Die Förderprogramme des Bundes, der Länder und der EU sind...
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Innovationspolitik für den Mittelstand hat sich bewährt
Belitz, Heike; Eickelpasch, Alexander; Lejpras, Anna - In: DIW Wochenbericht 79 (2012) 49, pp. 3-11
Die Innovationspolitik des Bundes und der Länder bietet dem Mittelstand ein breites Spektrum an Programmen zur Stärkung von Forschung und Entwicklung der kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen und ist besonders auf den Wissenstransfer ausgerichtet. In den letzten Jahren wurden die Programme...
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Union–firm bargaining agenda: right-to-manage or efficient bargaining?
Fanti, Luciano - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 2, pp. 936-948
In this paper we revisit the issue of the scope of bargaining between firms and unions. It is shown that an agreement between parties on the bargaining agenda may endogenously emerge only on the Efficient Bargaining arrangement, provided that union's power is not too high.
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Irrelevance of productivity difference: A case with labor union
Mukherjee, Arijit - In: Economics Bulletin 10 (2007) 17, pp. 1-8
Common wisdom suggests that firms with higher productivities earn higher profits and the higher productivities of the firms benefit consumers by increasing outputs. We show that productivity difference may not matter for outputs and profits in presence of wage bill maximizing labor unions. Our...
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Spatial Cournot competition and timing of endogenous wage setting
Wang, Qiang; He, Yuanyuan; Chen, Qi - In: Economics Bulletin 29 (2009) 3, pp. 1772-1782
This paper studies the problem of location-quantity choice in a duopoly in which the wage paid by each firm is set by the corresponding monopoly union. Compared with the outcome obtained in location-price choice game, we find that the wage setting choice for both unions does not change in our...
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Irrelevance of productivity difference: A case with labor union
Mukherjee, Arijit - In: Economics Bulletin 10 (2007) 17, pp. 1-8
Common wisdom suggests that firms with higher productivities earn higher profits and the higher productivities of the firms benefit consumers by increasing outputs. We show that productivity difference may not matter for outputs and profits in presence of wage bill maximizing labor unions. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181955
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Outward FDI, performance and group affiliation: evidence from French matched firms
Gazaniol, Alexandre; Peltrault, Frédéric - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 2, pp. 891-904
in outward FDI and its effects on home performance. Using a sample of French manufacturers, we combine propensity … their home performance ex-post. One explanation for this result might be that foreign-owned firms do not invest abroad in … order to increase their own performance, but the performance of their own group. …
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Endogenous mergers and maximal concentration: a note
Dargaud, Emilie - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 1, pp. 137-146
This article examines the incentive to merge in a Bertrand competition model with generalized substitutability and price competition. The model suggests that acquisition of firms by their rivals can result in maximal concentration of the industry.
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