Das Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) erhebt seit 1993 im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) und in Kooperation mit dem Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und…
The introduction of the European Union (EU) Settlement Procedure in 2008 aimed at promoting the procedural efficiency of cartel investigations by the European Commission (EC). We use a data set consisting of 579…
Innovation activities in the German enterprise sector showed two opposing trends over the past two decades: While total innovation expenditures grew substantially, the number of firms conducting innovation…
Most marketing practitioners and scholars agree that marketing assets such as brand equity significantly contribute to a firm's financial performance. In this paper, we model brand equity as an unobservable…
Banks are better suited than other financing partners to process information in order to make efficient liquidations. But their ability depends on bank characteristics and incentives. In addition, the strength…