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ordinary and knowledge labour in production when specifying alternative performance measures and when identifying knowledge … and profitability. To the best of our knowledge, we believe that the main findings of the analysis make contributions to …
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imitate by hiring a worker from a firm that has already innovated. We show that if innovation firms can commit to long … contracts, there is too little innovation and too much imitation in equilibrium. Our model is tractable and allows us to analyze … welfare effects of various policies in the limited commitment case. We find that subsidizing innovation and taxing imitation …
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This paper examines the interdependence between innovation and imports of intermediates, and their joint impact on …
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The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of certain technologies if complementary forms of organization are adopted. This issue may be of even greater importance for the case of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement...
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We explore the relationship between innovation activity, productivity, and exports using a panel of Spanish … manufacturing firms for 1990-1998. Our results - based on non-parametric tests - suggest that firm innovation status is important in … innovation seems to explain the positive association between exports and productivity for this group of firms. For small non …
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We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to …
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