innovation market. If employment protection is introduced, firms’ willingness to pay for product or process innovations increases …We study the effects of employment protection taking into account that firms can invest in R&D or buy new technologies … innovations and firms. …

certain changes in the economic environment are important in explaining this development but cannot solely account for it …. Barriers to entrepreneurship, to setting up new firms and to innovations which are prevalent on goods and capital markets also …

be able to expropriate innovations in new abatement technology ex post. This suggests that incentives for environmental R …

individual’s decision to start a business is determined by his or her age and, therefore, that a change in a region’s age … distribution affects the expected number of startups in the region. Using German regional data, we estimate a count-data model and …

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in services has grown significantly in recent years. Evidence of spatial relationships …. This paper investigates spatial interactions for services FDI using several distance measures, including physical distance … activity remain valid for services. We also find spatial interdependence for services FDI that is generally supportive of …

OECD countries vis-à-vis 69 exporters. Competition in services affects the volume of goods trade while the market structure … competition apparently matters most for exporters in smaller, poorer countries. By ignoring the structure of the domestic services …

We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of … international sourcing of materials depends on a firm’s productivity and the availability of local services. These predictions are … materials to sales. In addition, we find evidence that services grease the wheels of international commerce: A greater …

Beyond years of schooling, educational content can play an important role in the process of economic development …

possible problems with overreaction to public information. Furthermore, we suggest a new focus for development policy. …