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Objectives: This study investigates the relationship between prices and quality of 7,400 German nursing homes controlling for income, nursing home density, demographics, labour market characteristics, and infrastructure at the regional level. Method: We use a cross section of public quality...
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Objectives: This study investigates the relationship between prices and quality of 7,400 German nursing homes controlling for income, nursing home density, demographics, labour market characteristics, and infrastructure at the regional level. Method: We use a cross section of public quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412225
This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the concept of an ideal test (Hall, 2008). Firms were offered a hypothetical payment and asked to choose between alternatives of use. If they selected additional innovation projects, they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011009939
This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the concept of an ideal test as suggested by Hall (2008). Firms were offered a hypothetical payment and were asked to choose between alternatives of use. If they selected additional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147345
possible negative long-run effects on scientific performance. While previous research mainly focused on a potential crowding …
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The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of certain technologies if complementary forms of organization are adopted. This issue may be of even greater importance for the case of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement...
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R&D collaboration facilitates pooling of complementary skills, learning from the partner as well as sharing risks and … costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance … gains from collaboration can be high initially, cost may start to outweigh those benefits if firms engage in multiple …
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possible negative long-run effects on scientific performance. While previous research has mainly focused on a potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008804642
Information about the success of a new technology is usually held asymmetrically between the research and development (R&D)-performing firm and potential lenders and investors. This raises the cost of capital for financing R&D externally, resulting in financing constraints on R&D especially for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950857
Information about the success of a new technology is usually held asymmetrically between the research and development (R&D)-performing firm and potential lenders and investors. This raises the cost of capital for financing R&D externally, resulting in financing constraints on R&D especially for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956728