During the last 20 years, R&D and innovation activities in the service sector have clearly increased. Especially business services are believed to be one of the main drivers of technical changes and economic…
Over the last decades manufacturers have outsourced service inputs and shared resources with competitors. As a result, service inputs have been the fastest growing input factor in German manufacturing, followed…
In der Diskussion um die Reform der föderalen Finanzverfassung wird oft eine Stärkung der Steuerautonomie der Länder gefordert. Seitens der Befürworter wird die damit verbundene Ausweitung der…
Der Reduktion der Arbeitslosigkeit kommt ein hoher Stellenwert in der wirtschaftspolitischen Debatte in Deutschland zu. Diese Studie beschreibt die Höhe und Strukltur der Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschaknd und…
Employee resistance against innovations is a virulent phenomenon and there is a broad theoretical literature on its determinants. The empiri- cal evidence is scarce, however, and mainly provides descriptive…
In recent years stock option plans have become a substantial part of compensation schemes in U.S. companies. While in the beginning companies granted options only to the top-management more and more companies…
Investment Opportunities in Central and Eastern European Equity Markets For firms acting in technological niches the expansion into foreign markets can be a way to increase sales and to thus to recover initial…
