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Dynamic Models of R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Panel Data Evidence for Dutch and French Manufacturing

Raymond, Wladimir; Mairesse, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre; … - CESifo - 2013

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … conditional mean of labor productivity: through an observed binary indicator, an observed intensity variable or through the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

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Unraveling the Fortunates of the Fortunate: An Iterative Bayesian Model Averaging (IBMA) Approach

Eicher, Theo; Papageorgiou, Chris; Röhn, Oliver - CESifo - 2007

We investigate country heterogeneity in cross-country growth regressions. In contrast to the previous literature that focuses on low-income countries, this study also highlights growth determinants in high-income (OECD) countries. We introduce Iterative Bayesian Model Averaging (IBMA) to address...

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Lisbon Agenda, Regional Innovation System and the New EU Cohesion Policy

Nam, Chang Woon; Schoenberg, Alina; Wamser, Georg - CESifo - 2011

The EU’s cohesion policy should now be confluent with the goals of the Lisbon strategy by promoting growth and employment. In this context, the promotion of a concept called regional innovation system has recently become important in the EU for guaranteeing long-term regional economic growth....

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Does an R&D Tax Credit Affect R&D Expenditure? The Japanese R&D Tax Credit Reform in 2003

Kasahara, Hiroyuki; Shimotsu, Katsumi; Suzuki, Michio - CESifo - 2013

To what extent does a tax credit affect firms’ R&D activity? What are the mechanisms? This paper examines the effect of R&D tax credits on firms’ R&D expenditure by exploiting the variation across firms in the changes in the eligible tax credit rate between 2000 and 2003. Estimating the...

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Employment Protection and the Market for Innovations

Bastgen, Andreas; Holzner, Christian - CESifo - 2015

in order to restore their productivity. To do so we develop an equilibrium matching model with an imperfect labor and … estimated negative impact of wrongful dismissal laws in the US on productivity and the positive effect on the number of …

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Innovation and Trade with Heterogeneous Firms

Long, Ngo Van; Raff, Horst; Stähler, Frank - CESifo - 2009

industry productivity. For this purpose we develop a reciprocal dumping model of international trade with heterogeneous firms … expected industry productivity. The central results of the paper regarding firm and industry level R&D spending differ …

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The Effect of Household Debt on Aggregate Demand - The Case of Spain

Jauch, Sebastian; Watzka, Sebastian - CESifo - 2012

Households in some European countries increased their indebtedness massively over the past 20 years. Besides household debt, also government debt and corporate debt are in some countries at levels not seen before. While there is a common agreement that these high debt levels are not sustainable...

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Unconventional Gas and the European Union: Prospects and Challenges for Competitiveness

Vollebergh, Herman R. J.; Drissen, Eric - CESifo - 2014

This article studies the likely impact of unconventional gas developments in the U.S. on EU competitiveness. We find, first of all, little evidence for a prosperous unconventional gas development in Europe. Second, the U.S. boom has already a strong impact on both world and European energy...

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Looking Back on Anger: Explaining the Social Origins of Left-Wing and Nationalist-Separatist Terrorism in Western Europe, 1970-2007

Brockhoff, Sarah; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - CESifo - 2012

A unique dataset is used to separately analyze the social origins of left-wing and nationalist-separatist terrorism in 17 Western European countries between 1970 and 2007. We argue that the differences in the historic roots, ultimate goals as well as their negotiability, levels of domestic and...

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Catching-up and Inflation in Europe: Balassa-Samuelson, Engel's Law and other Culprits

Egert, Balazs - CESifo - 2010

This study analyses the impact of economic catching-up on annual inflation rates in the European Union with a special focus on the new member countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Using an array of estimation methods, we show that the Balassa-Samuelson effect is not an important driver of...

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