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Do Spillovers Stimulate Incremental or Drastic Product Innovations? Hypotheses and Evidence from German Establishment Data
Jirjahn, Uwe; Kraft, Kornelius - 2006
We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive impact on incremental innovations. This impact is largely independent of the participation in R&D cooperations. Spillovers exert no such independent influence on drastic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297531
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Do Spillovers Stimulate Incremental or Drastic Product Innovations? Hypotheses and Evidence from German Establishment Data
Jirjahn, Uwe; Kraft, Kornelius - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive impact on incremental innovations. This impact is largely independent of the participation in R&D cooperations. Spillovers exert no such independent influence on drastic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097593
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Do Spillovers Stimulate Incremental or Drastic Product Innovations? Hypotheses and Evidence from German Establishment Data
Kraft, Kornelius; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2014
We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive impact on incremental innovations. This impact is largely independent of the participation in R&D cooperations. Spillovers exert no such independent influence on drastic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014027138
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Impact of educational and religious homogamy on marital stability
Kraft, Kornelius; Neimann, Stefanie - 2009
respect to education and church attendance. Gary Becker's theory of marriage predicts that usually, positive assortative … education and religiousness. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271247
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Impact of Educational and Religious Homogamy on Marital Stability
Kraft, Kornelius; Neimann, Stefanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
respect to education and church attendance. Gary Becker's theory of marriage predicts that usually, positive assortative … education and religiousness. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008578122
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Is Small Beautiful? : Financial Structure, Size and Access to Finance
Beck, Thorsten - 2011
Combining two unique data sets, this paper explores the relationship between the relative importance of different financial institutions and their average size and firms' access to financial services. Specifically, the authors explore the relationship between the share in total financial assets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011395094
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SME Finance in Africa
Beck, Thorsten - 2014
This paper uses cross-country firm-level surveys to gauge access to financial services and the importance of financing constraints for African enterprises. The paper compares access to finance in Africa and other developing regions of the world, within Africa across countries, and across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396299
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Bank Financing For SMEs Around The World : Drivers, Obstacles, Business Models, And Lending Practices
Beck, Thorsten - 2008
enterprises (SMEs) around the world. They find that banks perceive the SME segment to be highly profitable, but perceive … macroeconomic instability in developing countries and competition in developed countries as the main obstacles. To serve SMEs banks … there are some differences in SMEs financing across government, private, and foreign-owned banks - with the latter being …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010520974
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When arm’s length is too far : relationship banking over the business cycle
Beck, Thorsten; Degryse, Hans; Haas, Ralph de; Horen, … - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010422211
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Finance and Growth for Microenterprises : evidence from Rural China
Beck, Thorsten; Lu, Liping; Yang, Rudai - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 67 (2015), pp. 38-56
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