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We analyze how the law and its enforcement affect equity market equilibrium. Improvements in the legal system, while invariably associated with broader equity markets, have different effects on equity returns depending on the institutional change considered and on the degree of international...
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Recent work documents that better legal institutions are associated with broader equity markets. We investigate whether international differences in legal institutions also help explain the international cross-section of expected stock returns. We document three main regularities. First, total...
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competition for the innovation, without reducing the total rents for innovations too much. … product competition tends to increase the relative profitability of innovation for sale relative to entry. Increased …, incumbents' valuations of innovations are less negatively affected by increased competition than entrants' profits. This, in turn …
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an increase in either the size or the frequency of innovations, from human capital accumulation through learning … of innovations or through introducing learning by doing with positive external effects across sectors) introduces new …
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This Paper presents a model of innovations and economic growth, in which patent rates emerge endogenously, as a result … of two assumptions: first, R&D is innovation-specific, second, marginal cost of innovation is increasing. The Paper then …-inefficient, as too many researchers look for the easy innovations, while too few search for the difficult ones. The third result is …
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This paper considers a dynamic North South model of international trade and innovations in which firms can endogenously …
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This paper assesses the effects of applying VAT or a sales tax on (intermediate or final) sales of the financial sector. It uses a CGE Model calibrated for a small open economy. It highlights the differentiated sectoral and redistributional effects of these taxes and shows the importance of the...
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This paper addresses the nature, formalization, and neural bases of (affective) social ties and discusses the relevance of ties for health economics. A social tie is defined as an affective weight attached by an individual to the well-being of another individual (‘utility interdependence’)....
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We use a rich personnel data set from a Russian firm for the years 1997 to 2002 to analyze how the financial crisis in 1998 and the resulting change in external labour market conditions affect the wages and the welfare of workers inside a firm. We provide evidence that large shocks to external...
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Gross job and worker flows in Russian industry are studied using panel data from a recent survey of 530 firms selected through national probability sampling. The data permit an examination of several important measurement issues – including the timing and definition of employment, the roles of...
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