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What explains the location of industrial innovation Economists have traditionally attempted to answer this question by studying firm-external knowledge spillovers. This paper shows that firm-internal linkages between production and R&D play an equally important role. I estimate an R&D location...
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We study the effects of import competition on industry locations patterns in a small open economy with two regions. Domestic productivity growth converges to the international rate through firm-level investment in process innovation. With firms locating production and innovation in their lowest...
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Industriepolitik der EU, des Bundes und der Länder ist es, für geeignete Rahmenbedingungen und nachhaltige Anreizsysteme für die … "Industriepolitik und Unternehmensstrategie" sollte einen Beitrag dazu leisten, die verschiedenen unternehmensstrategischen Belange … einzuordnen in übergeordnete Themen der Industriepolitik und der nachhaltigen Entwicklung im Kontext globaler Megatrends. Für die …
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We study the effect of countries' energy abundance on trade and sector activity, conditional on sector's energy intensity, using an unbalanced panel with 14 high-income countries from Europe, America and Asia, 10 broad sectors, and years 1970-1997. We find that (i) countries with large energy...
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This paper estimates the effect of environmental regulation on industry location and compares it with other determinants of location such as agricultural, education and R&D country characteristics. The analysis is based on a general empirical trade model that captures the interaction between...
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The Pollution-Haven Hypothesis suggests that tight environmental standards reduce domestic producers' competitiveness and give rise to their relocating to countries with more lenient standards. This paper questions that relocation is always caused by reduced competitiveness at home. By using a...
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We consider an economy in which a heterogeneous population of agents have to choose among a common set of alternatives. The utilities associated to the different alternatives posses a common component and an individual component, which reflect differences in the underlying structure of agents...
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