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The Impact of Continuous Training on a Firm’s Innovations
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - CESifo - 2008
Keeping up with rapid technological change necessitates constant innovation. Successful innovation depends on both … implement them. Both of these knowledge-based elements of innovation can be attained through moderate labor force turnover in … innovation within a multivariate regression framework. However, when instrumenting training by the existence of a union …
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The Role of Human Capital and Innovation in Prussian Economic Development
Cinnirella, Francesco; Streb, Jochen - CESifo - 2013
By merging individual data on valuable patents granted in Prussia in the late nineteenth century with county level … causal effect of human capital on income, net of the innovation channel. …
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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?
Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - CESifo - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
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Business Strategy and Firm Reorganization under Changing Market Conditions
Ghosal, Vivek - CESifo - 2009
This study is framed against the increasingly stringent environmental demands on the pulp and paper industry since the late-1980s to reduce water and air pollution, and the global economic slowdown of the early-1990s. The primary focus of this paper is an observation-based analysis conducted by...
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Health Insurance and Diversity of Treatment: A Policy Mix Perspective
Bardey, David; Jullien, Bruno; Lozachmeur, Jean-Marie - CESifo - 2013
We determine the optimal health policy mix when the average utility of patients increases with the supply of drugs available in a therapeutic class. Health risk coverage rely on two instruments, copayment and reference pricing, that affect the supported risk composed by health expenses and...
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Market Entry Regulation and International Competition
Upmann, Thorsten; Stähler, Frank - CESifo - 2003
As a part of their industry or competition policies governments decide whether to allow for free market entry of firms or to regulate market access. We analyze a model where governments (ab)use these policy decisions for strategic reasons in an international setting. Multiple equilibria of this...
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Drivers and Obstacles to Banking SMEs: The Role of Competition and the Institutional Framework
Torre, Augusto de la; Pería, María Soledad Martínez; … - CESifo - 2009
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are important for employment and economic activity; however, they are perceived to lack adequate financing, which hampers their growth. As a consequence, governments have implemented a number of programs to foster SME lending and attention has focused on...
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Hurricane Insurance in Florida
Jametti, Mario; Ungern-Sternberg, Thomas von - CESifo - 2009
This paper studies the evolution of hurricane insurance in Florida over the last decades. Hurricanes (and other natural catastrophes) are typically referred to as “uninsurable” risks. The more exposed property owners find it difficult to obtain insurance cover from the private market and/or...
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Powering Up Developing Countries through Integration?
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Biancini, Sara - CESifo - 2012
Power market integration is analyzed in a two countries model with nationally regulated firms and costly public funds. If generation costs between the two countries are too similar negative business-stealing outweighs efficiency gains so that following integration welfare decreases in both...
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Government Outsourcing: Public Contracting with Private Monopoly
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Picard, Pierre M. - CESifo - 2006
The paper studies the impact of government budget constraint in a pure adverse selection problem of monopoly regulation …. The government maximizes total surplus but incurs some cost of public funds. An alternative to regulation is proposed in …-post with the private firms. This ex-post contracting set-up allows more flexibility than traditional regulation where …
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