outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

educated (high earning) and low educated (low earning) women, I exploit a major maternity leave benefit reform in Germany that …

on its ability to generate productivity increase, and domestic innovation will be an important part of it. In this paper …. In terms of drivers of innovation growth, we find that embracing expanded market opportunities in the world economy and … misallocation in the innovation area: while state-owned firms receive more subsidies, private firms exhibit more innovation results …

quality, follow-on innovation. Winning a first patent boosts a startup's subsequent growth and innovation by facilitating …

This paper studies how hedge fund activism reshapes corporate innovation. Firms targeted by hedge fund activists … experience an improvement in innovation efficiency during the five-year period following the intervention. Despite a tightening … in R&D expenditures, target firms experience increases in innovation output, measured by both patent counts and citations …

This paper estimates the effect of trade policy during the Great Liberalization of the 1990s on innovation in over 60 … enables us to establish the causal impact of trade policy on innovation. Our results suggest that trade liberalization has … economically significant effects on innovation and, ultimately, on technical change and growth. According to our estimates, about 7 …