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Which Immigrants Are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial: Distinctions by Entry Visa
Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a...
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Profit Taxation, Innovation and the Financing of Heterogeneous Firms
Keuschnigg, Christian; Ribi, Evelyn - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
endogenous share opts for innovation and faces credit constraints in the subsequent expansion phase. We emphasize four results …: (i) R&D subsidies not only encourage innovation but also relax finance constraints and help innovative firms to exploit … investment of constrained firms by reducing free cash-flow and thereby discourage innovation. (iii) A revenue neutral increase in …
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Offshoring and Product Innovation
Naghavi, Alireza; Ottaviano, Gianmarco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
We propose an endogenous growth model with offshoring to investigate its effects on product innovation and growth in …
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Optimal Public Policy for Venture Capital Backed Innovation
Keuschnigg, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
regard to the capital gains tax, innovation subsidy, public R&D spending and other policy initiatives. …
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Contract Enforcement, Comparative Advantage and Long-Run Growth
Ottaviano, Gianmarco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
-country dynamic Ricardian model with endogenous innovation and hold-up problems, the value chain consists of two activities …, innovation and production. Entry in the market happens through R&D and entrants face two decisions. The 'location decision … perform innovation and production within the same vertically integrated structure or not. In this framework, the quality of …
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Innovation, Trade, and Finance
Egger, Peter; Keuschnigg, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper proposes a model where heterogeneous firms choose whether to undertake R&D or not. Innovative firms are more productive, have larger investment opportunities and lower own funds for necessary tangible continuation investments than non-innovating firms. As a result, they are...
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Why Don't Women Patent?
Garant, Jean-Philippe; Herman, Hannah; Hunt, Jennifer; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We investigate women's underrepresentation among holders of commercialized patents: only 5.5% of holders of such patents are female. Using the National Survey of College Graduates 2003, we find only 7% of the gap in patenting rates is accounted for by women's lower probability of holding any...
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How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?
Gauthier-Loiselle, Marjolaine; Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662271
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Outsourcing, Contracts and Innovation Networks
Naghavi, Alireza; Ottaviano, Gianmarco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
innovation. In so doing, we model an industry in which R&D is performed by independent research labs and outsourcing production …
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