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intensive margin and extensive margin, but a possible lower impact on innovation than could have been expected. …
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We propose in this paper a critical review of the literature on urban enterprise zones. The results that emerge from the papers published over the last twenty years vary a lot across studies. Several explanations can account for these apparently conflicting results. Technical tools and empirical...
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Advertising and innovation are two engines for firms to escape competition through a better attraction power toward …
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This paper examines the impact of financial constraints on innovation for established firms. We make use of a direct …
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competition on R&D according to the cost of the innovation. The effect of competition on R&D is an inverted U-shape. However, the … shape is flatter and competition policy is therefore less relevant for innovation when innovations are relatively costly …. Intuitively, if innovations are costly for a firm, competitive shocks have to be significant to alter its innovation decisions …
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build our results on the non ambiguous notion of innovation of a stochastic process and we consider the impact of any kind … qualitative or quantitative information, either on the innovation or on the future responses, as well as informations on filters …
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ICT productive performances have slowed down since the beginning of the 2000s, before the current crisis. This diagnosis could be due, at least partly, to some statistical mis-measurements of ICT improvements. Nevertheless, improvements in ICT performances will probably be positively impacted,...
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potential and, in particular when it comes to lack of risk capital, their innovation and R&D activity. Against this background …
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The sustained increase in productivity gains from the spread of ICTs may increase potential output growth in the medium to long term via capital deepening effects and total factor productivity (TFP) gains, and in the short to medium term via the lagged adjustment of wages to productivity gains....
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We use a French firm-level panel data set over the period 1993-2004 to analyze the relationship between credit constraints and firms' R&D behavior over the business cycle. Our main results can be summarized as follows: (i) the share of R&D investment over total investment is countercyclical...
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