Kooperationsintensität und Kooperationsförderung in der deutschen Laserindustrie
Muhamed Kudic, Katja Guhr, I. Bullmer, Jutta Günther
Wirtschaft im Wandel,
Nr. 3,
2011
Abstract
Die Hightech-Strategie der Bundesregierung definiert acht Schlüsseltechnologien, zu denen unter anderem die optischen Technologien und somit die Laserstrahlquellenhersteller zählen. Der Beitrag stützt sich auf aktuelle empirische Auswertungen und gibt einen ersten deskriptiven Überblick über den wissensintensiven Industriezweig der Laserstrahlquellenhersteller in Deutschland zwischen 1990 und 2010. Es zeigt sich, dass die Industrieentwicklung im Betrachtungszeitraum Schwankungen unterlag, in der Summe jedoch durch Expansion gekennzeichnet war. Zudem lässt sich eine hohe Präsenz vor allem von Großunternehmen der Laserstrahlquellenindustrie in Bayern, Baden-Württemberg und Thüringen feststellen. Diese regionalen Verteilungsmuster lassen sich im Hinblick auf die Partizipation an öffentlich geförderten Kooperationsprojekten wiederfinden, allerdings nur bei Betrachtung der absoluten Zahl von Verbundprojekten je Bundesland. In Relation zur Anzahl der Firmen im jeweiligen Bundesland wird die öffentliche Kooperationsförderung insbesondere in Thüringen, Rheinland-Pfalz und Hamburg stark nachgefragt. Somit ergibt sich für die räumliche Verteilung der Kooperationsintensität und Kooperationsförderung pro Firma ein differenziertes Muster.
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Is Rated Debt Arm's Length? Evidence from Mergers and Acquisitions
Reint E. Gropp, C. Hirsch, Jan Pieter Krahnen
CFS Working Papers, No. 2011/10,
Nr. 10,
2011
Abstract
In this paper we challenge the view that corporate bonds are always arm's length debt. We analyze the effect of bond ratings on the stock price return to acquirers in M&A transactions, which tend to have significant effects on creditor wealth. We find acquirers abnormal returns to be higher if they are unrated, controlling for a wide variety of other effects identified in the literature. Tracing the difference in returns to distinct managerial decisions, we find that, everything else constant, rated firms increase their leverage in takeover transactions by less than their unrated counterparts. Consistent with a significant role for rating agencies, we find monitoring effects to be strongest when acquirer bonds are rated at the borderline between investment grade and junk. Finally, we are able to empirically exclude a large number of alternative explanations for the empirical regularities that we uncover.
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The Political Setting of Social Security Contributions in Europe in the Business Cycle
Toralf Pusch, Ingmar Kumpmann
IWH Discussion Papers,
Nr. 4,
2011
Abstract
Social security revenues are influenced by business cycle movements. In order to
support the working of automatic stabilizers it would be necessary to calculate social insurance contribution rates independently from the state of the business cycle. This paper investigates whether European countries set social contribution rates according to such a rule. By means of VAR estimations, country-specific effects can be analyzed – in contrast to earlier studies which used a panel design. As a result, some countries under investigation seem to vary their social contribution rates in a procyclical way.
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Im Fokus: Forschungsförderung in Sachsen – Nährboden für Kooperationen
Michael Schwartz, Nicole Nulsch, Jutta Günther
Wirtschaft im Wandel,
Nr. 2,
2011
Abstract
Unbestritten ist die Notwendigkeit einer öffentlichen Unterstützung der Forschung und Entwicklung (FuE) von Wissenschaftseinrichtungen. Hier spielt die Projektförderung eine stetig wachsende Rolle, die insbesondere zur Vernetzung der Akteure eines Innovationssystems beitragen soll. Vor diesem Hintergrund hat das IWH am Beispiel Sachsens untersucht, ob eine Projektförderung von Wissenschaftseinrichtungen originäre Vernetzung begünstigt bzw. die Basis für eine intensivere Kooperationstätigkeit schafft. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass eine Projektförderung aus Sicht der geförderten Wissenschaftler einen Beitrag zur originären Vernetzung leisten kann und auch die FuE-Leistungsfähigkeit erhöht – eine Voraussetzung, um künftige Kooperationspotenziale effektiver zu nutzen und international anschlussfähig zu sein.
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Business Volatility, Job Destruction, and Unemployment
Steven J. Davis, R. Jason Faberman, John Haltiwanger, Ron S. Jarmin, Javier Miranda
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics,
Nr. 2,
2010
Abstract
Unemployment inflows fell from 4 percent of employment per month in the early 1980s to 2 percent by the mid 1990s. Using low frequency movements in industry-level data, we estimate that a 1 percentage point drop in the quarterly job destruction rate lowers the monthly unemployment inflow rate by 0.28 points. By our estimates, declines in job destruction intensity account for 28 (55) percent of the fall in unemployment inflows from 1982 (1990) to 2005. Slower job destruction accounts for similar fractions of long-term declines in the rate of unemployment.
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The Determinants of Bank Capital Structure
Reint E. Gropp, Florian Heider
Review of Finance,
Nr. 4,
2010
Abstract
The paper shows that mispriced deposit insurance and capital regulation were of second-order importance in determining the capital structure of large U.S. and European banks during 1991 to 2004. Instead, standard cross-sectional determinants of non-financial firms’ leverage carry over to banks, except for banks whose capital ratio is close to the regulatory minimum. Consistent with a reduced role of deposit insurance, we document a shift in banks’ liability structure away from deposits towards non-deposit liabilities. We find that unobserved time-invariant bank fixed-effects are ultimately the most important determinant of banks’ capital structures and that banks’ leverage converges to bank specific, time-invariant targets.
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What Determines the Innovative Success of Subsidized Collaborative R&D Projects? – Project-Level Evidence from Germany –
Michael Schwartz, François Peglow, Michael Fritsch, Jutta Günther
IWH Discussion Papers,
Nr. 7,
2010
publiziert in: Technovation
Abstract
Systemic innovation theory emphasizes that innovations are the result of an interdependent exchange process between different organizations. This is reflected in the current paradigm in European innovation policy, which aims at the support of collaborative R&D and innovation projects bringing together science and industry. Building on a large data set using project-level evidence on 406 subsidized R&D cooperation projects, the present paper provides detailed insights on the relationship between the innovative success of R&D cooperation projects and project characteristics. Patent applications and publications are used as measures for direct outcomes of R&D projects. We also differentiate between academic-industry projects and pure inter-firm projects. Main results of negative binomial regressions are that large-firm involvement is positively related to pa-tent applications, but not to publications. Conversely, university involvement has positive effects on project outcomes in terms of publications but not in terms of patent applications. In general, projects’ funding is an important predictor of innovative success of R&D cooperation projects. No significant results are found for spatial proximity among cooperation partners and for the engagement of an applied research institute. Results are discussed with respect to the design of R&D cooperation support schemes.
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A First Look on the New Halle Economic Projection Model
Sebastian Giesen, Oliver Holtemöller, Juliane Scharff, Rolf Scheufele
Abstract
In this paper we develop a small open economy model explaining the joint determination of output, inflation, interest rates, unemployment and the exchange rate in a multi-country framework. Our model – the Halle Economic Projection Model (HEPM) – is closely related to studies recently published by the International
Monetary Fund (global projection model). Our main contribution is that we model the Euro area countries separately. In this version we consider Germany and France, which represent together about 50 percent of Euro area GDP. The model allows for country specific heterogeneity in the sense that we capture different adjustment patterns to economic shocks. The model is estimated using Bayesian techniques. Out-of-sample and pseudo out-of-sample forecasts are presented.
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Money and Inflation: The Role of Persistent Velocity Movements
Makram El-Shagi, Sebastian Giesen
Abstract
While the long run relation between money and inflation is well established, empirical evidence on the adjustment to the long run equilibrium is very heterogeneous. In the present paper we use a multivariate state space framework, that substantially expands the traditional vector error correction approach, to analyze the short run impact of money on prices. We contribute to the literature in three ways: First, we distinguish changes in velocity of money that are due to institutional developments and thus do not induce inflationary pressure, and changes that reflect transitory movements in money demand. This is achieved with a newly developed multivariate unobserved components decomposition. Second, we analyze whether the high volatility of the transmission from monetary pressure to inflation follows some structure, i.e., if the parameter regime can assumed to be constant. Finally, we use our model to illustrate the consequences of the monetary policy of the Fed that has been employed to mitigate the impact of the financial crisis, simulating different exit strategy scenarios.
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