1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-028 // 2006

    The Export-Growth Relationship: Estimating a Dose-Response Function

    The relationship between individual firms’ export behaviour and firm performance has been studied extensively in the economic literature. However, most studies from the field of economics only distinguish…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-033 // 2006

    R&D and Firm Performance in a Transition Economy

    We estimate the effects of R&D on firms' credit ratings and on financial distress. The main purpose is the comparison of firms in Western Germany and Eastern Germany as a transitional economy. Innovative…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-037 // 2006

    Detecting Behavioural Additionality - An Empirical Study on the Impact of Public R&D Funding on Firms’ Cooperative Behaviour in Germany

    Subsidising research networks has become a popular instrument in technology policies, driven mainly by expected positive spillovers. In particular, the stimulation of R&D co-operation between scientific…

  4. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2006

    Market Analyses under the New European Communications Framework – Some Conceptual Issues

  5. Refereed Journal // 2006

    Economic development and CO2 emissions : a nonparametric panel approach

    We examine the empirical relation between CO©ü emissions per capita and GDP per capita during the period 1960-1996, using a panel of 100 countries. Relying on the nonparametric poolability test of Baltagi et al.…