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      <title>The EU decarbonisation roadmap 2050: What way to walk?</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/72470</link>
      <description>Title: The EU decarbonisation roadmap 2050: What way to walk?
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Hübler, Michael 13283359X; Löschel, Andreas
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: We carry out a detailed CGE (Computable General Equilibrium) analysis of the EU Decarbonisation Roadmap 2050 on a macroeconomic and on a sectoral level. Herein, we study a Reference scenario that implements existing EU policies as well as 3 unilateral and 3 global climate action scenarios. We identify global climate action with international emissions trading and the ful l equalization of CO2 prices across all (EU) sectors as a reasonable policy option to avoid additional costs of the Decarbonisation Roadmap to a large extent. This policy option may include CDM (Clean Development Mechanism in the sense of 'where'-flexibility) in an extended form if there are countries without emissions caps. Moreover, we identify diverse sectoral effects in terms of output, investment, emissions and international competitiveness. We conclude that the successful realization of the EU Decarbonisation Roadmap probably requires a wise and joint consideration of technology, policy design and sectoral aspects.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Innovation, employment growth, and foreign ownership of firms: A European perspective</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/72469</link>
      <description>Title: Innovation, employment growth, and foreign ownership of firms: A European perspective
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Dachs, Bernhard; Peters, Bettina
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: This paper examines how foreign-owned and domestically owned firms transform innovation into employment growth. The empirical analysis, based on the model of Harrison, Jaumandreu, Mairesse and Peters (2008) and CIS data for 16 countries, reveals important differences between the two groups: Due to general productivity increases and process innovation, foreign-owned firms experience higher job losses than domestically owned firms. At the same time, employment- creating effects of product innovation are larger for foreignowned firms. Together with employment-stimulating effects stemming from existing products, they overcompensate the negative displacement effects resulting in net employment growth in foreign-owned firms. However, net employment growth turns out to be smaller in foreign-owned firms than in domestically owned firms.</description>
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      <title>What is the wind behind the sails to go abroad? Empirical evidence from the mutual fund industry</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/72468</link>
      <description>Title: What is the wind behind the sails to go abroad? Empirical evidence from the mutual fund industry
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Lang, Gunnar; Schäfer, Henry
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Specific industry factors determining cross-border business set-up in the European mutual fund industry are analyzed to contribute to the understanding of production specificities in the financial industry. The findings indicate that the decision on where to domicile a fund is not primarily driven by traditional cost factors, such as registration charges and labor costs. Network conditions with respect to the knowledge-based production process of mutual funds and the interaction with regulating authorities such as the approval process embedded in the legal framework and the quality of the workforce in a dense specialized cluster matter most. Differences in such network conditions may allow fund companies to set up more innovative and complex funds in a shorter period of time in one country than in other countries. The findings highlight also that the practitioners agree on such network determinants as being most important.</description>
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      <title>Employee recognition and performance: A field experiment</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/72467</link>
      <description>Title: Employee recognition and performance: A field experiment
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Bradler, Christiane; Dur, Robert; Neckermann, Susanne; Non, Arjan
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task. In a random sample of work groups, workers unexpectedly received recognition after two hours of work. We find that recognition increases subsequent performance substantially, and particularly so when recognition is exclusively provided to the best performers. Remarkably, workers who did not receive recognition are mainly responsible for this performance increase. This result is consistent with workers having a preference for conformity.</description>
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