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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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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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Effects of Innovation on Employment: A Dynamic Panel Analysis

Lachenmaier, Stefan; Rottmann, Horst - CESifo - 2007

This paper estimates the effect of innovation on employment at the firm level. Our uniquely long innovation panel data … set of German manufacturing firms covers more than 20 years and allows us to use various innovation measures. We can … distinguish between product and process innovations as well as between innovation inputs and innovation outputs. Using dynamic …

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Gift Exchange in the Workplace: Money or Attention?

Dur, Robert - CESifo - 2008

We develop a model of manager-employee relationships where employees care more for their manager when they are more convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic feelings towards their employees in two ways: by offering a generous wage and by giving attention....

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A Strategic R&D Investment with Flexible Development Time in Real Option Game Analysis

Villani, Giovanni - CESifo - 2009

The real option theory provides a useful tool to evaluate an R&D investment under uncertainty because, unlike the NPV (Net Present Value), it considers the managerial flexibility that may be expand the investment opportunity value. However, most R&D investment projects are open to competing...

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