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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - CESifo - 2001
This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...
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Improving Development Effectiveness through R&D: Dynamic Learning and Evaluation
Fiala, Nathan; Mangan, Cormac - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
Research and development (R&D) is a common process in for-profit organizations. Despite the benefits, it is not routinely practiced in nonprofit organizations, in part because it is difficult to identify the effects of programs that are designed to involve individuals over long periods of time....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010691846
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Experience, Innovation and Productivity - Empirical Evidence from Italy's Slowdown
Daveri, Francesco; Parisi, Maria Laura - CESifo - 2010
We investigate the role of workers’ and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583733
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Incentives and Creativity in Groups
Ramm, Joachim; Tjøtta, Sigve; Torsvik, Gaute - CESifo - 2013
It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out of the box thinking. This paper reports from an experiment designed to test if the negative incentive effect is present also when individuals work together to solve such...
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Foreign Direct Investment, Competition and Industrial Development in the Host Country: An Analysis for the Case of "White" Certificates
Barrios, Salvador; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
This paper analyses the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the development of local firms. We focus on two likely effects of FDI: a competition effect which deters entry of domestic firms and positive market externalities which foster the development of local industry. Using a simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068780
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Dynamic Models of R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Panel Data Evidence for Dutch and French Manufacturing
Raymond, Wladimir; Mairesse, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre; … - CESifo - 2013
This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …
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Innovation Clusters: Combining Physical and Virtual Links
Preissl, Brigitte - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003
Innovation is increasingly seen as a collective action which involves many different actors operating in a cluster … important tool to study innovation, but the globalisation of companies and markets and the specific requirements of innovation … and virtual cluster links improves access to essential resources in innovation. An examples taken from the automotive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068838
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Timing of Technology Adoption and Product Market Competition
Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Petrakis, Emmanuel - CESifo - 2009
This paper examines how product market competition affects firms’ timing of adopting a new technology as well as whether the market provides sufficient adoption incentives. It shows that adoption dates differ not only among symmetric firms but also among markets with Cournot and Bertrand...
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R&D Behavior of German Manufacturing Companies during the 2008/09 Recession
Eickelpasch, Alexander - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
This paper investigates to what extent the R&D behavior of manufacturing companies was influenced by the 2008/09 crisis. Based on a broad official data set for German manufacturing companies, only a few companies that engaged in R&D during 2008 gave it up in the following year. Some companies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896184
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Intra- and Inter-Industry Productivity Spillovers in OECD Manufacturing: A Spatial Econometric Perspective
Badinger, Harald; Egger, Peter - CESifo - 2008
We adopt a spatial econometric approach to estimate intra- and inter-industry productivity spillovers in total factor productivity transmitted through input-output relations in a sample of 13 OECD countries and 15 manufacturing industries. Both R&D spillovers as well as remainder,...
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