While the potential merits of the German apprenticeship training system seem to be fairly well documented, relatively little is known about those youths who, at one point or another, do not follow the usual…
This paper builds on the repeatedly documented empirical observation that flows of international patent applications are closely related to international trade relationships. In the first part of this paper we…
Die Wirkungen umweltpolitischer Instrumente wurden im Hinblick auf ihre Innovationseffekte bislang überwiegend in einem eher linear-mechanistischen Ansatz auf der Grundlage der traditionellen neoklassischen…
In this paper we analyze the permanent price impact of trades in financial markets by investigating the relation between unexpected net order flow and price changes. We mainly focus on four questions. Does large…
Innovation processes toward sustainable development (eco-innovations) have received increasing attention during the past years. Since existing theoretical and methodological frameworks do not address these…