Publikationen des Forschungsbereichs Innovationsökonomik und Unternehmensdynamik

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 20-018 // 2020

    R&D Investment Under Financing Constraints

    This paper tests for the sensitivity of R&D to financing constraints conditional on restrictions in external financing. Financing constraints of firms are identified by an exogenously calculated rating index.…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 20-012 // 2020

    The Value of Publicly Available, Textual and Non-textual Information For Startup Performance Prediction

    Can publicly available, web-scraped data be used to identify promising business startups at an early stage? To answer this question, we use such textual and non-textual information about the names of Danish…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 20-010 // 2020

    Which Design Works? A Meta-Regression Analysis of the Impacts of R&D Tax Incentives

    A growing interest in R&D tax incentives as a way to sustain research and innovation efforts has given rise to a large number of evaluations. The absence of consensus in the literature about their impact on R&D…