The paper studies the power of educational investments in relation to transfers for fostering lifetime income and for reducing income inequality in Germany and contributes to the discussion of sustainability in…
Contractual and regulatory provisions for access affect incentives to invest in an upgraded network and, in particular, a next-generation access network. Investment decisions are made under uncertainty and have…
Subsidiaries of foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) are among the top performers of research, development and innovation in many EU and non-EU countries. In some small European countries - examples are…
This paper studies the effect of information about a charity’s size on individuals’ donations to that charity. We conducted a framed field experiment with a non-student sample, in which subjects had the…
Building up close main-bank relationships can be beneficial to small and medium sized firms for several reasons. For mature firms, relationship lending eases access to bank finance and positively affects firm…
Recognition is an important source of employee motivation. But how should managers allocate recognition: should they praise all? Or should they recognize only extraordinary performances? This issue has not yet…
This article explores whether the heterogeneous costs of disclosure induced by patenting can serve as an explanation for the empirically observed heterogeneity of the propensity to patent across firms. A…
