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    BCCP Conference and Policy Forum 2016

    Big data is transforming the world we live in. The instant availability of information impacts how individuals consume, how businesses thrive or fail, how society makes scientific discoveries, as well as how governments design and implement informed policies. At a pace and scale unanticipated 20 years ago, information technology is enabling consumers globally. Uncountable services make use of a...

    17.06.2016
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Why Are Chinese MNEs not Financially Competitive in Cross-Border Acquisitions? The Role of State-Ownership

    While MNEs from emerging markets — and China in particular — tend to pay high acquisition premiums when they engage in cross-border acquisition activity, the determinants of this overbidding are not completely understood. We argue that state ownership is a key factor in explaining the high acquisition premiums paid by emerging-market multinationals. Employing data on 450 Chinese outward cross-border ...

    In: Long Range Planning 49 (2016), 5, S. 614-631 | Wenxin Guo, Joseph A. Clougherty, Tomaso Duso
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Firms' Evaluation of Location Quality: Evidence from East Germany

    Our study provides evidence for firms’ evaluation of location quality. We use a 2004 survey of 6,000 East German firms that contained questions on the importance and assessment of 15 different location factors ranging from closeness to customers and suppliers, transport infrastructure, and proximity to research institutions and universities, as well as questions about the local financial institutions ...

    In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 236 (2016), 2, S. 241-273 | Alexander Eickelpasch, Georg Hirte, Andreas Stephan
  • Diskussionspapiere 1614 / 2016

    Market Power and Heterogeneous Pass-through in German Electricity Retail

    We analyze the pass-through of cost changes to retail tariffs in the German electricity market over the 2007 to 2014 period. We find an average pass-through rate of around 60%, which significantly varies with demand factors: while the pass-through rate to baseline tariffs, where firms have higher market power, is only 50%, it increases to 70% in the competitive segment of the market. Although the pass-through ...

    2016| Tomaso Duso, Florian Szücs
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Financing Patterns of R&D in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and the Perception of Innovation Barriers in Germany

    We analyze the role public support plays in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) R&D financing as well as these firms’ assessments of financing conditions in the context of other framework conditions for innovation. Using the sample of 2,708 German SMEs that participated in public R&D promotion programs during 2005–10, we identify four unique types of R&D financing. Firms are generally positive ...

    In: Science & Public Policy 43 (2016), 2, S. 245-261 | Heike Belitz, Anna Lejpras
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    International Knowledge Spillovers through High-Tech Imports and R&D of Foreign-Owned Firms

    The international transmission of knowledge through import spillovers, as a source of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth, has received much attention in the literature. We investigate two additional direct channels through which R&D disseminates: the import of high-technology goods and the internationalization of business R&D. Building on an extensive data-set, covering both developing and industrial ...

    In: The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development 25 (2016), 4, S. 590-613 | Heike Belitz, Florian Mölders
  • DIW Economic Bulletin 29/30 / 2016

    Berlin Needs to Tap into Its Research Potential to Improve Economic Performance: Nine Questions to Martin Gornig

    2016
  • Diskussionspapiere 1576 / 2016

    Cost Structure and Economies of Scale in German Water Supply

    Potable water supply in Germany is highly fragmented. A consolidation of the industry could, therefore, lead to lower cost of water supply and price savings for the customers. In this paper we estimate a total cost function for potable water supply based on a unique sample of German water utilities observed between 2004 and 2010. Newly available data allows for a detailed cost modeling approach. Capital ...

    2016| Michael Zschille
  • DIW Economic Bulletin 15 / 2016

    Weak Corporate Investment Requires Immediate Action

    Although the federal government has been taking steps to strengthen investment in Germany, it remains considerably low. This includes private investment, on which thepresent study focuses. German companies are barely investing more than they did before the crisis, but this is not the case elsewhere: in the US, for example, the level of investment is nearly 14 percent higher than it was in 2007. One ...

    2016| Marcel Fratzscher, Martin Gornig, Alexander Schiersch
  • Press Release

    German industry is spending more money on research and development than ever before

    Manufacturing companies increased their expenditures by more than a fifth between 2010 and 2013 – research-intensive and large companies primarily responsible for the increase – development more dynamic in Germany than in other European countries In 2013, industrial companies in Germany spent a total of 57.2 billion EUR on research and development (R&D). This corresponds to an increase ...

    29.07.2015
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