Consumption and Income. Paneleconometric Evidence for West Germany
Christian Dreger, Reinhold Kosfeld
Applied Economics Quarterly 49,
2003
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Consequences of an opening border for the regional policy in an border region - The case of the German border with Poland
Gerhard Heimpold
IWH Discussion Papers,
No. 125,
2000
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Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Employment: Methodological Problems of Estimating the Employment Effects of CIM Application on the Macroeconomic Level
Hans-Ulrich Brautzsch
WP-87-19 (zusammen mit S. Mori und R.U.Ayres),
1987
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Comparative Study of Multinational Companies in the Enlarged EU - A Technology Transfer Perspective
Johannes Stephan, Björn Jindra, I. Klugert
Conference Proceedings of „Comparing International Competitiveness of Manufacturing Companies in the EU with Special Emphasis on Central and Eastern Europe“,
2007
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Our study makes a novel contribution to the analysis of the link between multinational companies' heterogeneity and technological transfer. Thereby, we focus on internal technology transfer i.e. technology flowing from the multinational enterprise to the foreign subsidiary. We estimate the impact of corporate governance, subsidiary objectives, local absorptive capacity, as well as the cultural and geographic distance as potential determinants of internal technology transfer. We control for other observed firm- and industry-specific effects as well as unobserved host-country effects. We test our hypothesis with a firm-level data simultaneously collected from 434 foreign subsidiaries in Poland, Hungary, Estonia, Slovakia and Slovenia in 2002/2003. The evidence seems to indicate that the nature of the parent-subsidiary relationship is subject to the institutional context, subsidiary objectives, and risks involved for the foreign parent. These factors in turn determine the incentives for transferring knowledge to the subsidiary. Foreign subsidiaries' absorptive capacity enhances the intensity of internal technology transfer. In contrast geographic distance seems to limit the extent of technology transfer within the company. Country-of-origin-effects seem not to be statistically relevant for internal technology transfer once we control for observable firm, industry, and unobserved host-country-specific effects.
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Comments on Jerger, Jürgen; Spermann, Alexander. Alternative Subsidies for Low-Wage Employment
Lioba Trabert
External Publications,
1998
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Comment on A. Török’s article on “Turbulences and Emergency Landings on Leased Planes”
Johannes Stephan
Financial Turbulences in Transition Economies,
2000
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Comment on
Peter Haug
Diamond, J. (ed.), Proceedings. 98th Annual Conference on Taxation, Miami, Florida, November 17-19, 2005 and Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the National Tax Association, Thursday, November 17, 2005,
2006
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Changing Structures, Functions, and Townscape. The Transformation of a Middle-Sized City in Thuringia
Peter Franz, Inge Cornelsen, Ulfert Herlyn
Netherlands Journal of Housing and the Built Environment,
1995
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Challenges for Formal Standardization: the Institutional Reforms 2008 – 2010 Reconsidered.
Ulrich Blum
Standardization Research in Information Technology: New Perspectives,
2007
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This study considers the developments in international standardization over the last 20 years, particularly the status of formal standardization as compared with consortium-based industrial standardization. The report shows that the radical reform of the global formal standardization system that started in 2008, prompted by the loss of interest in formal standardization on the part of large corporations and the sometimes less than satisfactory outcomes from consortium-based industrial standardization in terms of competition and anti-trust considerations, has helped to compensate for the declining significance of national formal standardization. This specifically relates to national governments, and is to be regarded as a clearly positive development, from both the economic and the institutional and political points of view. Global public interests are now catered for by internet-supported information markets; in particular, online documentation has also enhanced the transparency of the formal standardization process and provided freedom of access for small and medium sized companies in particular, irrespective of geographical region. Finally, the study shows that the debate that took place in and around the year 2004 between Europe and the USA regarding the path towards the internationalization of formal standardization processes was superfluous, incomplete and even counterproductive, owing to the hardening of the political divisions between the two sides.
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Business Report: Economy picking up
Joachim Ragnitz
External Publications,
1999
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