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Audretsch, David B; Falck, Oliver; Feldman, Maryann P; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

routinized phase where innovation takes place within top-performing incumbents; (3) a second entrepreneurial phase characterized … routinization, in which no further innovation takes place, but is instead a phase of structural change. Using data on 74 West German …

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Intermediaries as Bundlers, Traders and Quality Assessors: The Case of UK Tour Operators

Clerides, Sofronis; Nearchou, Paris; Pashardes, Panos - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We study the intermediary role of tour operators in the market for package tourism. Intermediaries often arise in order …

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Core-Periphery Patterns of Generalized Transport Costs: France, 1978-98

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Lafourcade, Miren - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper develops a methodology to compute transport costs at low infra-country geographical levels. This simultaneously accounts for the real network infrastructure, a distance cost (fuel, repair, tolls), and a time opportunity cost (wages, insurance and general charges, vehicle use). When...

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Will East Germany Become a New Mezzogiorno?

Boltho, Andrea; Carlin, Wendy; Scaramozzino, Pasquale - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

Despite massive regional policy efforts, GDP per capita in Southern Italy has only briefly converged on Northern Italian levels (during the 1960s). Failure since then is associated with a policy switch from investment towards income maintenance, with reduced wage sensitivity to regional labour...

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New-Firm Start-ups in Italy

Audretsch, David B; Vivarelli, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

This paper applies a modified version of the `income choice' model to explain variations in new-firm formation across Italian provinces over the period 1985-8. Based on a panel data of start-up activity in 78 Italian provinces and using two different databases, we find support for the overall...

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The District and the Global Economy: Exporting versus Foreign Location

Basevi, Giorgio; Ottaviano, Gianmarco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

industrial district as a centre of innovation where positive local spillovers sustain the endogenous invention of new goods by …. In particular, firms’ attempts to circumvent trade barriers through delocation slow down the pace of innovation and harm …

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Taking the Bite Out of Fiscal Competition

Justman, Moshe; Thisse, Jacques-François; van … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

Regions can benefit by offering infrastructure services that are differentiated by quality, thus segmenting the market for industrial location. Regions that compete on infrastructure quality have an incentive to increase the degree of differentiation between them. This places an upper bound on...

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Regional Underdevelopment: Is FDI the Solution? A Semiparametric Analysis

Girma, Sourafel; Wakelin, Katharine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

In this Paper we aim to examine the regional impact of foreign-owned establishments on the performance of domestic establishments in the electronics industry in the UK. We use establishment-level data taken from the UK Census of Production (the ARD) to this end. In the econometric specification,...

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Does Microsoft Stifle Innovation? Dominant Firms, Imitation and R&D Incentives

Cabral, Luís M B; Polak, Ben - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

firm's incentives for R&D. These changes influence the probability of innovation through two effects: changes in total R … shift from the rival firm to the dominant firm is a good thing as it decreases the likelihood of duplicate innovation (we … rights are strong. That is, firm dominance is good for innovation when (but only when) property rights are strong. We also …

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Distance to Frontier, Selection, and Economic Growth

Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

innovation activities. The selection of high-skill managers is more important for innovation activities. As the economy … investments, but little selection. Closer to the world technology frontier, there is a switch to an innovation-based strategy with …

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