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The Territorial Dynamics Of Innovation In China And India

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres; Storper, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in … between the provinces and states within both countries are quite different. In China, the concentration of innovation is …. Innovative areas in China, rather than generate knowledge spillovers, seem to produce strong backwash effects. In India, by …

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Can You Teach Old Dragons New Tricks? FDI and Innovation Activity in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by … that export, invest in human capital or R&D, or have prior innovation experience. We also find that SOEs with internal R …

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Effect of Income on Trust: Evidence from the 2009 Crisis in Russia

Ananyev, Maxim; Guriev, Sergei - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

This paper draws on a natural experiment to identify the relationship between income and trust. We use a unique panel dataset on Russia where GDP experienced an 8 percent drop in 2009. The effect of the crisis had been very uneven among Russian regions because of their differences in industrial...

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Teaching Practices and Social Capital

Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Shleifer, Andrei - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We use several data sets to consider the effect of teaching practices on student beliefs, as well as on organization of firms and institutions. In cross-country data, we show that teaching practices (such as copying from the board versus working on projects together) are strongly related to...

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Professional Network and Career Coevolution

Berardi, Nicoletta; Seabright, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper examines how networks of professional contacts contribute to the development of the careers of executives of European and US companies. We build a dynamic model of career progression in which career moves both depend upon existing networks and contribute to the development of future...

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Social Capital, Trust, and Firm Performance during the Financial Crisis

Lins, Karl; Servaes, Henri; Tamayo, Ane - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We study the extent to which a firm’s social capital, as measured by the intensity of a firm’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities, affects firm performance during the 2008-2009 financial crisis. We find that high-CSR firms have crisis-period stock returns that are four to five...

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Network Dynamics and Knowledge Transfer in Virtual Organizations: Overcoming the Liability of Dispersion

Gandal, Neil; Stettner, Uriel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Product development within and across community-based and geographically dispersed virtual organizations is becoming an increasingly important mechanism through which individual knowledge holders create and disseminate knowledge in joint efforts to generate products. Without the benefits of...

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Market Structure and Borrower Welfare in Microfinance

de Quidt, Jonathan; Fetzer, Thiemo; Ghatak, Maitreesh - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Motivated by recent controversies surrounding the role of commercial lenders in microfinance, we analyze borrower welfare under different market structures, considering a benevolent non-profit lender, a for-profit monopolist, and a competitive credit market. To understand the magnitude of the...

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Bowling for Fascism: Social Capital and the Rise of the Nazi Party in Weimar Germany: 1919-33

Satyanath, Shanker; Voigtländer, Nico; Voth, Hans-Joachim - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Social capital – a dense network of associations facilitating cooperation within a community – typically leads to positive political and economic outcomes, as demonstrated by a large literature following Putnam. A growing literature emphasizes the potentially “dark side” of social...

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Social Capital, Government Expenditures, and Growth

Ponzetto, Giacomo AM; Troiano, Ugo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We present a tractable stochastic endogenous growth model that explains how social capital influences economic development. In our model, social capital increases citizens' awareness of government activity. Hence, it alleviates the electoral incentives to under-invest in education, whose returns...

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