Gaining access to technological assets and patents, in particular, has long been a major motive and objective for firm acquisitions. On the one hand, patents are used as a building instrument for the…
Germany has the highest unemployment rate of older people in comparison to the average unemployment rate of all developed economies. Obviously older people face stronger difficulties to re-enter the labour…
Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings
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2008
The purpose of this paper is to explore the behavioural background for an asymmetric pass-through of input prices at a power spot market. G. Zachmann and C. von Hirschhausen report empirical evidence for such an…
In an international comparison, German workers have a long seniority and face larger problems to find a new job when they are older – the relative unemployment rate of people older than 55 is clearly higher in…