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        <title><![CDATA[An Economic Analysis of Online Streaming: How the Music Industry Can Generate Revenues From Cloud Computing]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Music can be characterized as information good and is therefore amenable to digitalization and copying through online sharing networks. Chances and risks arise from digitalization for the...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Monetary Policy Implementation And The Federal Funds Rate]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This paper investigates how the implementation of monetary policy affects the dynamics and the volatility of the federal funds rate. Since the early 1980s, the most important changes in the Fed's...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Financial Constraints: Routine Versus Cutting Edge R&amp;D Investment]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The authors analyze financial constraints for R&amp;D, where they account for heterogeneity among investments which has been neglected in previous literature. According to economic theory, investments...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Firm Closure, Financial Losses And The Consequences For An Entrepreneurial Restart]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Many entrepreneurs who close a business are actually willing to venture anew. However, to realize a restart is not only a matter of willingness on the part of the entrepreneur but also of its...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[From Soft And Hard-Nosed Bankers - Bank Lending Strategies And The Survival Of Financially Distressed Firms]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Do private banks act as hard-nosed bankers when firms get financially distressed compared to public banks that have the mandate to support regional economy? For German firms in the period...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[To Be Financed Or Not - The Role Of Patents For Venture Capital Financing]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract Venture Capital (VC) financing. The authors argue that investors are faced with...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Business Closure And Financial Loss: Who Foots The Bill? Evidence From German Small Business Closures]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This paper explores how different reasons for business closure impact the probability that financial loss will be suffered by creditors. Using German small business data, the paper finds that...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why Do Financial Market Experts Misperceive Future Monetary Policy Decisions?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This paper investigates why financial market experts misperceive the interest rate policy of the European Central Bank (ECB). Assuming a Taylor-rule-type reaction function of the ECB, the authors...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Enterprise Software And Service Innovation: Standardization Versus Customization]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This paper analyzes the relationship between service innovation and different types of enterprise software systems, i.e. standardized enterprise software designed to fit one certain business...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[On The Role Of Entrepreneurial Experience For Start-up Financing: An Empirical Investigation For Germany]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs are often faced with problems regarding start-up financing. But compared to novice entrepreneurs, experienced entrepreneurs should have both more knowledge and better contacts, which...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Innovative Capability And Financing Constraints For Innovation More Money, More Innovation?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This paper presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the idea of an ideal test as suggested by Hall (2008). Firms were offered a hypothetical...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Short-term Borrowing For Long-term Projects: Are Family Businesses More Susceptible To 'Irrational' Financing Choices?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Based on a dataset with 1,417 family and 1,195 non-family businesses in Germany, the authors find that family businesses rely more heavily than other enterprises on short term credit in order to...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Enterprise Systems And Labor Productivity: Disentangling Combination Effects]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This study analyzes the relationship between the three main enterprise systems (Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM)) and labor...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 06:50:44 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Enterprise Systems And Innovations]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This paper analyzes the relationship between the three main enterprise systems (Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM)) and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 06:40:24 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Regulatory Practice In The European Telecommunications Sector Normative Justification And Practical Application]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The telecommunications sector is characterized by economies of scale and scope, high sunk costs, and strong network effects. This combination may facilitate monopolization and abuse of market...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 06:19:54 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Globalization Of Tax Policy: What German Politicians Believe]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The process of globalization has an important impact on national tax policies. Most of the literature on taxation of capital in open economies does not focus directly on the political decision...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 06:17:50 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Effect Of Entry On R&amp;D Investment Of Leaders: Theory And Empirical Evidence]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The authors develop a simple model of competition for the market that shows that, contrary to the Arrow view, endogenous entry threat in a market induces the average firm to invest less in R&amp;D and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 06:15:47 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Does EU Cohesion Policy Promote Growth? Evidence From Regional Data And Alternative Econometric Approaches]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This paper analyzes the growth effects of EU structural funds using a new panel dataset of 124 NUTS-1 / NUTS-2 regions over the time period 1995-2005. The authors extend the current literature...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Impact Of Innovation On Employment In Small And Medium Enterprises With Different Growth Rates]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This paper examines the impact of innovation on employment growth in innovating small and medium enterprises using a quantile regression approach. The key findings are that innovation has a...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Is There A Trade-Off Between Academic Research And Faculty Entrepreneurship? Evidence From U.S. NIH Supported Biomedical Researchers]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Is there a trade-off of scholarly research productivity when faculty members found or join for-profit firms? This paper offers an empirical examination of this question for a subpopulation of...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Employment Growth In Newly Established Firms - Is There Evidence For Academic Entrepreneur's Human Capital Depreciation?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Human capital is known to be one of the most important predictors of a person's earnings. With regard to entrepreneurial success, founders' human capital is an important determinant of firm's...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Does Interdisciplinarity Lead To Higher Employment Growth Of Academic Spinoffs?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Does heterogeneity in the educational backgrounds of the founders matter for firm success? Are team foundations more successful than single entrepreneurs? These questions are analyzed using data...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Pollution Externalities In A Schumpeterian Growth Model]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This paper extends a standard Schumpeterian growth model to include an environmental dimension. Thereby, it explicitly links the pollution intensity of economic activity to technological progress....]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Voluntary Giving And Economic Growth: Time Series Evidence For The US]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This paper analyzes the sensitivity of US giving to both business cycle fluctuations and trend growth. With tax revenues as a point of reference, US giving constitutes a relatively stable source...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[European Telecommunication Regulation - Effects On Telecommunication Providers]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This paper considers the impact of European telecom regulation on the value of affected companies. Employing a repeating ARGARCH model, the author compares the effect of three types of regulation...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[IT Outsourcing And Employment Growth At The Firm Level]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Outsourcing is widely associated with accompanied job losses in the outsourcing firm, at least in the short run. However, the medium and long run effects of outsourcing on employment growth might...]]></description>
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