Publications of the Research Unit Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-028 // 2006

    The Export-Growth Relationship: Estimating a Dose-Response Function

    The relationship between individual firms’ export behaviour and firm performance has been studied extensively in the economic literature. However, most studies from the field of economics only distinguish…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-033 // 2006

    R&D and Firm Performance in a Transition Economy

    We estimate the effects of R&D on firms' credit ratings and on financial distress. The main purpose is the comparison of firms in Western Germany and Eastern Germany as a transitional economy. Innovative…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-037 // 2006

    Detecting Behavioural Additionality - An Empirical Study on the Impact of Public R&D Funding on Firms’ Cooperative Behaviour in Germany

    Subsidising research networks has become a popular instrument in technology policies, driven mainly by expected positive spillovers. In particular, the stimulation of R&D co-operation between scientific…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2006

    B2B or Not to Be: Does B2B E-Commerce Increase Labour Productivity?

    We implement an endogeneous switching-regression model for labour productivity and firms' decision to use business--to--business (B2B) e--commerce. Our approach allows B2B usage to affect any parameter of the…