There appears to be an ambivalent dimension in innovation strategies: timing. When is an innovation ready for the market or when is the market ready for the innovation? This paper empirically investigates the…
Drawing on recent work on the creation and breakup of countries, this paper examines the impact of economic and political integration on the vertical government structure. It argues that by increasing the market…
The sensitivity of innovation activities with respect to the business cycle is often assumed to be small. In this paper the hypothesis on cyclical dependence of innovation activities is tested for firms in the…
In diesem Beitrag wird das Evaluationskonzept zu den geplanten Feldexperimenten mit dem so genannten personengebundenen Budget (Pflegebudget) vorgestellt. Das Pflegebudget ist eine Geldleistung, die vom…
The aim of this paper is to construct an indicator of potential growth for developed countries using the insights of the theoretical and empirical growth literature. The Pooled Mean Group Estimator of Pesaran,…
