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A microeconometric analysis of the springboard subsidiary : the case of Spanish firms
Caicedo Marulanda, Carolina; Pla-Barber, José; León … - 2015
This paper provides a microeconometric analysis of the distinctive characteristics of springboard subsidiaries that have a positive impact on the subsidiaries' performance. Based on panel data estimations for subsidiaries of European multinational companies with a presence in Spain, the authors...
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On the concentration of innovation in top cities in the digital age
Paunov, Caroline; Guellec, Dominique; El-Mallakh, Nevine; … - 2019
30 OECD countries. It finds that patenting is highly concentrated: from 2010 to 2014, 10% of cities accounted for 64% of …) representing 21.8% of applications. The share of the top cities in total patenting increased modestly from 1995 to 2014. Digital … patenting activities in cities and that it benefits top cities, in particular, thereby strengthening the concentration of …
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Chapter 5. The Economics of Science
Stephan, Paula E. - 2010
This chapter examines the contributions that economists have made to the study of science and the types of contributions the profession is positioned to make in the future. Special emphasis is placed on the public nature of knowledge and characteristics of the reward structure that encourage the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025171
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Incidence and Growth of Patent Thickets - The Impact of Technological Opportunities and Complexity
Harhoff, Dietmar; von Graevenitz, Georg; Wagner, Stefan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
patenting in complex and discrete technologies. The model captures how competition for patent portfolios and complementarity of … patents affect patenting incentives. We show that lower technological opportunities increase patenting incentives in complex … technologies while they decrease incentives in discrete technologies. Also, more competitors increase patenting incentives in …
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Capital–energy substitution: Evidence from a panel of Irish manufacturing firms
Haller, Stefanie A.; Hyland, Marie - In: Energy Economics 45 (2014) C, pp. 501-510
We use a translog cost function to model production in the Irish manufacturing sector over the period from 1991 to 2009. We estimate both own- and cross-price elasticities and Morishima elasticities of substitution between capital, labour, materials and energy. We find that capital and energy...
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When did firms become more different? Time-varying firm-specific volatility in Japan
De Veirman, Emmanuel; Levin, Andrew T. - In: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 26 (2012) 4, pp. 578-601
We document how firm-specific volatility in sales, earnings and employment growth evolved year by year in Japan. Our volatility measure also indicates the evolution of firm turnover. We find that patterns in firm-specific volatility have changed when macroeconomic circumstances have. Firm...
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A multi-country non-linear dynamical model for the study of European growth based on technology and business services
Maggi, Bernardo; Muro, Daniel - In: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 25 (2013) C, pp. 173-187
In this paper we study a model for endogenous growth based on technology diffusion across European countries with respect to the major foreign partners. To that aim we disentangle the dynamics of such a problem by considering the single contribution to growth of each country, arising from every...
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Technological acquisitions : the impact of geography on post-acquisition innovative performance
McCarthy, Killian J.; Aalbers, Rick - In: Research policy : policy, management and economic … 45 (2016) 9, pp. 1818-1832
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Determinants of the weight for leisure in preferences
Elgin, Ceyhun; Yucel, Emekcan - 2014
In this paper, the authors investigate the determinants of weight for leisure in preferences. First, using a dynamic general equilibrium model, they back out the weight for leisure for an unbalanced panel of 52 countries over the period from 1950 to 2009. Then, the authors perform several panel...
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Age and gender effects of workforce composition on productivity and profits : evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - In: Contemporary economics 8 (2014) 1, pp. 25-46
This empirical paper documents the relationship between the composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using newly...
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