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      <title>Grant dependence, regulation and the effects of formula-based grant systems on German local governments: A data report for Saxony-Anhalt</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/70779</link>
      <description>Title: Grant dependence, regulation and the effects of formula-based grant systems on German local governments: A data report for Saxony-Anhalt
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Haug, Peter
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Recent empirical studies have found - seemingly - efficiency-enhancing effects of vertical grants on local public service provision. The main purpose of this paper is to prepare an elaborate theoretical and empirical analysis of these contradictory results. Therefore, it investigates if certain fiscal and institutional conditions (fiscal stress, fiscal rank-preserving vertical grant systems, input- and output regulation), that might help to explain these empirical findings, are characteristic of at least some parts of the local government sector or certain regions. The German state of Saxony-Anhalt is chosen for case study purposes. The main results are: First, the local governments suffer from severe fiscal problems such as high grant dependency, low tax revenues and the prevalent inability to finance investments by own resources. Second, the output- and inputregulation density of certain mandatory municipal services (schools, childcare facilities, fire protection) is high. Finally, the most important vertical grant category for local governments, the formula-based grants ('Schlüsselzuweisungen'), can be described as mainly exogenous, unconditional block grants that in most cases preserve the relative fiscal position of the grant recipients.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Does partner type matter in R&amp;D collaboration for environmental innovation?</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/70778</link>
      <description>Title: Does partner type matter in R&amp;D collaboration for environmental innovation?
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Pippel, Gunnar
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: In the literature on environmental innovations R&amp;D collaborations have been identified as a critical determinant of a firm's environmental innovation performance. However, the literature suggests that R&amp;D collaboration is not always beneficial. Therefore, a more elaborated analysis of the effects of R&amp;D collaborations on a firm's environmental innovation performance is necessary. This paper investigates the impact of R&amp;D collaborations with different partner types such as customers, competitors, suppliers, universities, governmental research institutes, consultants and other firms within the same firm group on a firm's environmental innovation performance. In addition, this paper addresses the question of whether the diversity of R&amp;D collaboration partners is important for the environmental innovation performance. Firm-level data from 2,337 German service and manufacturing firms are used in the regression analysis. The results suggest that R&amp;D collaboration with suppliers, customers, universities, governmental research institutes, consultants and other firms within the same firm group has a significantly positive impact on a firm's environmental innovation performance, whereas collaboration with competitors has no significant impact. The diversity of R&amp;D collaboration partners has a significantly positive impact on a firm's environmental innovation performance.</description>
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      <title>Cooperation events, ego-network characteristics and firm innovativeness: Empirical evidence from the German laser industry</title>
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      <description>Title: Cooperation events, ego-network characteristics and firm innovativeness: Empirical evidence from the German laser industry
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Kudic, Muhamed; Guhr, Katja
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: We study how firm innovativeness is related to individual cooperation events and the structure and dynamics of firms' ego-networks employing a unique panel dataset for the full population of 233 German laser source manufactures between 1990 and 2010. Firm innovativeness is measured by yearly patent applications as well as patent grants with a two year time-lag. Network measures are calculated on the basis of 570 knowledgerelated publicly funded R&amp;D alliances. Estimation results from a panel data count model with fixed effects are suggestive of direct innovation effects due to individual cooperation events, but only as long as structural ego-network characteristics are neglected. Innovativeness is robustly related to ego-network size and ego-network brokerage whereas ego-network density reveals some surprising results.</description>
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      <title>Natural-resource or market-seeking FDI in Russia? An empirical study of locational factors affecting the regional distribution of FDI entries</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/70776</link>
      <description>Title: Natural-resource or market-seeking FDI in Russia? An empirical study of locational factors affecting the regional distribution of FDI entries
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Gonchar, Ksenia; Marek, Philipp
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: This paper conducts an empirical study of the factors that affect the spatial distribution of foreign direct investment (FDI) across regions in Russia; in particular, this paper is concerned with those regions that are endowed with natural resources and marketrelated benefits. Our analysis employs data on Russian firms with a foreign investor during the 2000-2009 period and linked regional statistics in the conditional logit model. The main findings are threefold. First, we conclude that one theory alone is not able to explain the geographical pattern of foreign investments in Russia. A combination of determinants is at work; market-related factors and the availability of natural resources are important factors in attracting FDI. The relative importance of natural resources seems to grow over time, despite shocks associated with events such as the Yukos trial. Second, existing agglomeration economies encourage foreign investors by means of forces generated simultaneously by sector-specific and inter-sectoral externalities. Third, the findings imply that service-oriented FDI co-locates with extraction industries in resource-endowed regions. The results are robust when Moscow is excluded and for subsamples including only Greenfield investments or both Greenfield investments and mergers and acquisitions (M&amp;A).</description>
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