We use the prolonged Greek crisis as a case study to understand how a lasting economic shock affects the innovation strategies of firms in economies with moderate innovation activities. Adopting the 3-stage CDM model, we explore the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity for different size groups of Greek manufacturing firms during the prolonged crisis. At the first stage, we find that the ...
Does personality matter? Is an individual who is open to experience more or less likely to become an entrepreneur? Is it better to score low or high in agreeableness for surviving as an entrepreneur? To the extent that personality captures one part of entrepreneurial abilities, which are usually unobservable, the analysis of traits and personality characteristics helps better understanding such abilities. ...
The shift to climate neutrality requires new process technologies for energy-intensive industries, such as steel, chemicals, or cement. A variety of technology options exist – but they face the challenges of (i) first-of-kind costs, (ii) higher operation and investment costs, and (iii) insufficient and uncertain carbon prices, which partly stem from political uncertainty. Existing innovation policy ...
Wer die Übergewinnsteuer für Banken kritisiert, hat zwar durchaus gute Argumente auf seiner Seite. In dieser Krise haben aber die Befürworter die besseren. Die Entscheidung von fünf europäischen Regierungen – jüngst auch der italienischen –, eine Übergewinnsteuer für Banken einzuführen, hat in Deutschland die Diskussion darüber wieder aufleben lassen. Vertreter von Finanzinstituten lehnen selbstverständlich ...
According to theory, "sin taxes" are welfare improving if consumers with low self-control respond at least as much to the tax as consumers with high self-control. We investigate empirically if demand response to soft drink and fat tax variations in Denmark depends on consumers' self-control. We use a unique home-scan panel that includes a survey measure of self-control. When taxes increase, consumers ...
Since the new millennium, research in the field of personality development has focused on the stability and change of basic personality traits. Motivational aspects of personality and their longitudinal association with basic traits have received comparably little attention. In this preregistered study, we applied bivariate latent growth curve model to investigated the codevelopment of nine life goals ...
Die Konferenz soll eine Plattform bieten, die Idee der Sozialpartnerschaft und die damit verbundenen Chancen und Herausforderungen mit den Autorinnen und Autoren des aktuellen Vierteljahrshefts zu diskutieren. Die Sozialpartnerschaft war von herausragender Bedeutung für den Wiederaufbau der Bundesrepublik Deutschland nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg. Langanhaltender sozialer Friede und...
